IMCDA Are you ready? (Page 8)

I'll have a SUV rental that could fit a few others.  Depending on how this gets set up, I'd actually like to ride the one "technical" spot I keep hearing about  (I'm assuming this is the W. Riverview part you describe?) to avoid any surprises on Sun.

You need to drag some of us around on that sweet bike of yours.  Do they make a nice carbon fiber kid carrier?

Moving this over here to keep track of whose who.   I haven't touch base with any of the IMCDA people from my area.  Work schedule precludes it sorta.

danae
BellinghamSpence
madcow
Flyboy
jamesreeves
T in Liberty Lake
PGoldberger
lifeisgood
OldAg92
hjmiii
KRASH187
trouble
ChuckyFinster
Bclaridge
Stake
Twurtele
Ms Rob
Boglecda
Scootyeti
TPL
RZ76
schroema
adschroering
Liquidmel
Patrick28211
Taleesh
Danken
Blueraidermike
Virgingirl

Spence-

Thanks for the list.  Too lazy to create it myself.  63 days to go....

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

I just cut and pasted it from the commitment link.   And than tried to look at the people that had signed up.....So  somebody else did the leg work. 

One thing that I will say.  This morning I read Jeepfleebs IMAZ report and got a little panicky.  Because it was so discriptive and and informative.......Salt stains and stuff with food not tasting (cliff bars) good any more.............But than I realized I'm not going to go at his pace  (he's in his mid 20s)

I sometimes read everyone elses training logs and get irked that I'm not doing enough....But wait, I'm 48 freaking years old.... I'm the old man of the group, you all should be calling me Sir.    Everyone has their own strenghts and weaknessess (sic).  So follow what your body says you can do and do it.  Don't get freaked out what others do.  Follow what you planned and excel at that.

During my training swims or rides, I daydream or let my mind wander, who I'll meet.  And what the status is.  Maybe I'll be passing or they will be passing me......If it is not your pace then let them go.... and don't fuss about it.

I'm not sure.  I tried to get my ex to wear carbon fiber, and, well... now she's my ex

Incredibly well put vgirl.

Now lets get out there and train!!!!!

Hope everyone has a great training weekend...don't forget to have fun doing it too!  Just think about the good times we're going to have the 2-3 days before the race, not to mention the race itself!  Getting close enough now that you can almost feel it! 

Well put....SIR!

I think everyone has their own vibe....the important thing is to listen to it!  V-Girl said it well "enjoy it, take in the surrondings".  CDA is a beautiful place and I am fortunate to live here, and take it for granted sometime.  I did one loop of the course this morning and looked around while riding, saw some cool things I have missed.  We are all on the same bus, just in different seats.  Nice thing is though, we are all getting off at the same stoP!!

Excellent analogy Bryan.  I'm trying to enjoy this whole journey as much as I will the destination on race day.  It's easy to get sidetracked by looking at what other people are doing in training or racing...I think we're all competitive to varying degrees or we wouldn't be doing this in the first place.  But I try to remember to tell myself to just do my own thing and don't worry about the Joneses!  After all, I'm almost as old as Spence (45)!  So I'll just keep chugging along and do my best to meet my personal goals and hopefully have enough breath left to congratulate everyone else on their accomplishment! 

I hope everyone is having a great weekend of training, R&R, family time, or whatever else it is that you may be enjoying!!  We're going to be getting off at that bus stop SOON!! 

Definitely a long sleeved suit would be in order.  Especially for someone who's used to swimming in WARM water all the time!    I can't imagine being comfortable for 1+ hours in the water in Lake CDA in June without a full suit.

Regardless of the water temp, I'll be in a sleeveless because that is what I just bought.  My coach told me to buy sleeveless instead of full because most of my training and racing is here in Texas, and he said I'd get more use out of the sleeveless.  I know that most people will be wearing a full, but I won't be one of them unless I buy another top for my DeSoto suit, so hopefully it isn't too cold!!  I think T in Liberty Lake has done IMCDA a couple times with a sleeveless, so he can probably chime in as to how cold it is.

EDIT - I just read Stan's post and now I'm scared....maybe I need to ditch the whole sleeveless idea. 

Hey guys, didn't mean to freak anyone out with my post about the wetsuits!    I just went back through the pics on the Ironman CDA site from the last 3 year's races and I saw a few, maybe 4 or 5, pics of people with sleeveless suits.  Not saying it can't be done, just that I've swam in the lake a lot and for myself, I wouldn't want to try it without a full suit.  Another bit of info...we've had a pretty cold spring so far and the lake won't be warming very fast at all.  So even if we have normal temps between now and race day, it still may be a degree or two cooler than last year.  Not trying to worry anyone, just don't want anyone to have a bad race either because of being cold.

I use the Full Sleeve De Soto T1.   I need all the rubber around me for floatation purposes.

Ok, it's 8:14, sun is up and I 'm going riding.