Ironman Florida : Official Thread (Page 82)

Uggh. I really, really, really wanna hear him say my name!!!

Im still kinda sore - not everyday walking around or anything but I can feel tightness way down deep in my leg and back muscles. Im feeling kinda lost without doing any training or anything ~ I've spent the last year looking forward to Nov. 7th - imagining how the race will go and now there's not too much going on. Anyone else feel sorta lost?

I would have bought a finish video too.  Amazing they arent doing it, really missing some revenue stream.  They could have an intern ripping DVD's and selling them for $30 each all day long.

I was amazed at how I felt after this race.  I expected to be unbelievably sore, but actually felt better than I did after many sprints.  I think more than anything, I was physically exhausted a few days after.  I have slept better and longer in the last couple of weeks then I have in a long time.

I have really forced myself to take some time off after the race, I have done a couple of easy rides and a couple of easy runs, but that was it.  I went mountain biking this week out in Red Rock Canyon outside of Vegas and felt great during a 3 mile climb.  In fact I felt great all ride until I endo'ed over the handle bars on a descent and landed on a rock pile!  So now I have some wicked trail rash and cracked ribs, but cant blame IMFL for that

I plan on starting my winter maintenance and off season plan in December, so wanted to really give my body a chance to recover.  It was a long season, my first race was in March last year and I stayed race ready the whole rest of the season. When I do my next IM, I will not race as much leading up to it as I do think that it hampered my overall long distance performance, but I had a really fun year and wouldn't change a thing about it.  IMFL was the perfect end to my third tri season!!

Brad

Glad to know I'm not the only person who feels strange right now. I'm also forcing myself to take time off to recover. I've felt pretty good since the race. I'm ready to start back up again but don't want to start back too soon. It is easier to take time off now than for an injury down the road. My family is ready for me to start working out again.

I've logged a whopping 8 miles on the mountain bike riding it around town. Cleaned the house from top to bottom. I would start swimming again if it weren't for this lil M-Dot tattoo that I got a few weeks ago. I'm not happy with how the tattoo turned out. So I'm having it redone this weekend. Pics to come this weekend.

Anyone else suffering from PIDS?  (post ironman depression syndrome)

yep - and the fact that I self medicate with holiday food and drink doesn't help any. Don't even wanna step on the scale! EEEK!

Hey Shawn - I was ready for some off season fun workouts like mountain biking and some trail running, but crashed in the desert outside of Vegas on my mtn bike and have been healing from a pair of broken ribs!  So I am dying to get back out.  Kind of a forced end of season recovery!

Almost every SetUp event is the same weekend as another race or event that I already have on my calendar  Smithfield/Monument Ave 10k, Kinetic/Cap to Cap Century, Tidewater Int/Eagleman, 3Sports/NYC Tri, and Patriots/Nation's Tri

At this point Eagleman will be my only long course race this season as I want to focus on speed!  (in the immortal words of Ricky Bobby...."I'm going fast again!")

I think I will do the Rumpass in Bumpass Sprint as I am racing the DuNationals in Richmond the next weekend and might do the Luray International in August as I dont have much on my calendar for then.

You should look into some of the Richmond Multisport Events in Richmond www.richmondmultisports.com   they are a lot of fun.

Hope to see you out there sometime!

Brad