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IdealMuse - 2010-07-19 11:32 PM Yeah believe it or not I'm still here, and I still read... I just got quiet for awhile and then felt a bit embarrassed about chiming back in because of it... but thanks for asking! My HIM went very well over all still working on the race report. Fairly nice weather except for an hour of rain on the bike. Door County Half Ironman is so incredibly run and I'm really happy I picked that one over some of the others I considered. Overall time was 7:24 - Swim as expected, Bike slightly better then expected, and run took longer because I decided to go into a 5run/1walk after mile 2 for a few reasons... but still ran the whole thing other then those 1min walks and just one 5 minute walk break to chew on some ice. Even if you double my time and add an hour for IM plus an extra hour for the hills... I should be able to make IMOO happen. Congrats on everyone who raced this past weekend and good luck with next weekend!!! I'm off to go look for your race reports.

dharris13 - 2010-07-20 12:11 PM

haha ohh josh. ANy good reason why you know this??

kenj - 2010-07-20 2:34 PM

I want to wish all the IMLP folks good luck and a safe race Sunday!! I know you will all be heading there in the next day or so.

Have a great time and enjoy the experience!!

WittyCityGirl - 2010-07-20 11:06 PM Josh-thanks for the info.

Anyone know what the warm up is like before an IM?  I was expecting to get in the water and do a couple hundred yards, but is this not the norm? 

PennState - 2010-07-21 1:23 PM I will update more on the LP thread, but if you were wondering how beautiful it is up in LP, here you go

phxphotog - 2010-07-21 2:15 PM I know we have one person doing IMAZ this year and just a weird story here in Arizona. One of the rubber dams that holds the water in Tempe Town Lake were a lot of local triathlons are held broke last night and the whole lake drained. They are thinking they will have the lake open by Early November which would be in time for IMAZ but not for Nathan's Olympic or SOMA 1/2 IM that I'm doing. I don't think they have a plan B for these races so I don't know what they will do.

PennState - 2010-07-21 2:23 PM I will update more on the LP thread, but if you were wondering how beautiful it is up in LP, here you go

phxphotog - 2010-07-21 5:15 PM I know we have one person doing IMAZ this year and just a weird story here in Arizona. One of the rubber dams that holds the water in Tempe Town Lake were a lot of local triathlons are held broke last night and the whole lake drained. They are thinking they will have the lake open by Early November which would be in time for IMAZ but not for Nathan's Olympic or SOMA 1/2 IM that I'm doing. I don't think they have a plan B for these races so I don't know what they will do.

GRB1 - 2010-07-21 1:04 PM

Is this a Cyclocross IM your getting ready for?  Save some energy and ride that thing

JoshKaptur - 2010-07-21 9:24 PM Fred - I agree it is beatiful up there... now get out of the picture and stop messing it up!


Just wanted to share with you guys one of the goals that has been on the dashboard of my blog all year... it was to be able to post before and after pictures and be proud of what I've done.  Well, here they are.  FYI I am 30 years old in the final 3 pictures (so you can see what happened in less than 12 months)... 

BEFORE:
Summer 2008 (I'm sucking my gut in for sure in this pic)


30th Birthday Party (November 2009)



AFTER:
Here's me "tapering" on Friday, July 16, 2010:


And here I am ready to kick some Lake Placid butt:



Wanted to say thanks to Fred and to everyone else in this thread for the support, advice, encouragment, and sense of community this thread has provided during this chapter of the journey for me.  Thanks for letting me accomplish one of my goals right here.  I'll accomplish another one on Sunday... finishing my first Ironman!

JoshKaptur - 2010-07-21 8:24 PM Fred - I agree it is beatiful up there... now get out of the picture and stop messing it up!


Just wanted to share with you guys one of the goals that has been on the dashboard of my blog all year... it was to be able to post before and after pictures and be proud of what I've done.  Well, here they are.  FYI I am 30 years old in the final 3 pictures (so you can see what happened in less than 12 months)... this is 66 pounds in 9 months.

BEFORE:
Summer 2008 (I'm sucking my gut in for sure in this pic)


30th Birthday Party (November 2009)



AFTER:
Here's me "tapering" on Friday, July 16, 2010:


And here I am ready to kick some Lake Placid butt:



Wanted to say thanks to Fred and to everyone else in this thread for the support, advice, encouragment, and sense of community this thread has provided during this chapter of the journey for me.  Thanks for letting me accomplish one of my goals right here.  I'll accomplish another one on Sunday... finishing my first Ironman!

JoshKaptur - 2010-07-21 8:24 PM Fred - I agree it is beatiful up there... now get out of the picture and stop messing it up!


Just wanted to share with you guys one of the goals that has been on the dashboard of my blog all year... it was to be able to post before and after pictures and be proud of what I've done.  Well, here they are.  FYI I am 30 years old in the final 3 pictures (so you can see what happened in less than 12 months)... this is 66 pounds in 9 months.

BEFORE:
Summer 2008 (I'm sucking my gut in for sure in this pic)


30th Birthday Party (November 2009)



AFTER:
Here's me "tapering" on Friday, July 16, 2010:


And here I am ready to kick some Lake Placid butt:



Wanted to say thanks to Fred and to everyone else in this thread for the support, advice, encouragment, and sense of community this thread has provided during this chapter of the journey for me.  Thanks for letting me accomplish one of my goals right here.  I'll accomplish another one on Sunday... finishing my first Ironman!

phxphotog - 2010-07-21 3:15 PM I know we have one person doing IMAZ this year and just a weird story here in Arizona. One of the rubber dams that holds the water in Tempe Town Lake were a lot of local triathlons are held broke last night and the whole lake drained. They are thinking they will have the lake open by Early November which would be in time for IMAZ but not for Nathan's Olympic or SOMA 1/2 IM that I'm doing. I don't think they have a plan B for these races so I don't know what they will do.

JoshKaptur - 2010-07-21 7:24 PM Fred - I agree it is beatiful up there... now get out of the picture and stop messing it up!


Just wanted to share with you guys one of the goals that has been on the dashboard of my blog all year... it was to be able to post before and after pictures and be proud of what I've done.  Well, here they are.  FYI I am 30 years old in the final 3 pictures (so you can see what happened in less than 12 months)... this is 66 pounds in 9 months.

BEFORE:
Summer 2008 (I'm sucking my gut in for sure in this pic)


30th Birthday Party (November 2009)



AFTER:
Here's me "tapering" on Friday, July 16, 2010:


And here I am ready to kick some Lake Placid butt:



Wanted to say thanks to Fred and to everyone else in this thread for the support, advice, encouragment, and sense of community this thread has provided during this chapter of the journey for me.  Thanks for letting me accomplish one of my goals right here.  I'll accomplish another one on Sunday... finishing my first Ironman!

JoshKaptur - 2010-07-21 8:24 PM Fred - I agree it is beatiful up there... now get out of the picture and stop messing it up!


Just wanted to share with you guys one of the goals that has been on the dashboard of my blog all year... it was to be able to post before and after pictures and be proud of what I've done.  Well, here they are.  FYI I am 30 years old in the final 3 pictures (so you can see what happened in less than 12 months)... this is 66 pounds in 9 months.

BEFORE:
Summer 2008 (I'm sucking my gut in for sure in this pic)


30th Birthday Party (November 2009)



AFTER:
Here's me "tapering" on Friday, July 16, 2010:


And here I am ready to kick some Lake Placid butt:



Wanted to say thanks to Fred and to everyone else in this thread for the support, advice, encouragment, and sense of community this thread has provided during this chapter of the journey for me.  Thanks for letting me accomplish one of my goals right here.  I'll accomplish another one on Sunday... finishing my first Ironman!

zionvier - 2010-07-21 10:05 PM

I am the one doing IMAZ.  I'm pretty confident they'll have something figured out by then.  It's supposed to be solved by then, so hopefully it will.

Sorry to hear about the SOMA HIM, I'm sure the event organizer is already trying to figure out a plan B as we speak.

As for the water supply in the area, I'm sure they will divert water from the reservoirs up stream that normally help fill town lake.  Plus, I'm sure they never actually drain the entire thing each year with local water use, they do normally leave a buffer so that the reservoirs never drop too low and dry up completely.  They just might put some precautions in place like limits on watering the lawns and stuff like that, I'm sure everyone in the area would understand that.

It was probably a sight to see though when it happened.  I wonder if kayakers were scrambling to get out there  I know if something like that happened here kayakers would be leaving work to go for it... I know there's one location that they open the dam up around here only twice a year for about a week and it's a major event for all the kayakers, creates some class 5 rapids that those guys are not willing to pass up.