IronMan Cozumel : Official Thread (Page 9)

csharp1171 - 2010-09-27 9:47 AM

Time to get focused on the last 2 months before race day.  I did my "tune-up" HIM this past weekend with Ironman Augusta and had great (for me) finish time of 5:31:53.  Pacing and nutrition were spot on so this was a great confidence builder. 

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Cozumel.

hpeterson10579 - 2010-10-01 7:30 AM

I am renting 404 clinchers from race day wheels.

csharp1171 - 2010-10-02 1:42 PM

Just finished a cool windy hilly 75.8 mile ride.  Longest ride of the year for me.  Looking to do a century next weekend.  I can't believe how close it is getting.  How is everyone else doing with their trianing?

gerald12 - 2010-10-01 2:58 PM I am going to go with an 808 front and rear setup for wheels. I am wondering about my waterbottle setup. On the IMCOZ website it says there are aid stations every 10K's on the bike which is quite often. Passing that many aid stations has me contemplating carrying only one bottle. Any others do this race in the past have comments on this?

csharp1171 - 2010-10-02 1:42 PM

Just finished a cool windy hilly 75.8 mile ride.  Longest ride of the year for me.  Looking to do a century next weekend.  I can't believe how close it is getting.  How is everyone else doing with their trianing?

runnergirl - 2010-10-02 4:36 PM

They actually ran out of water last year on the bike course.  At first they just ran out of sports bottles and you had to stop and have them pour the big jug of water into your aerobottle or sports bottle.  And then I think they completely ran out of water later on.  I was actually toward the slower end of the bike due to mechanical issues- my saddle was loose and then completely fell off.  They had zero bike mechanics on the course and I had no help.  Wasted about 45 mins trying to get another athlete to toss me an extra tool, and then wasted more time trying to get my saddle back on- fun times.

Also, the bike SN's was a huge cluster f#*k.   They didn't have the bags arranged in bins or by numbers or anything.  It took me about 10 mins to find my bag- it was laying on the ground off to the back which was totally random.  Also, once people tapped into their SN bags and left them they never separated the touched/untouched bags.  So on top of having a hard time finding my bag, I was climbing over and stepping on SN bags that had already been used.  It was awful- huge time waster.

So with that said, hopefully they will have a better grip on the bike SN bags and have more organization.  Looking back I would have carried as many bottles as possible with me just in case I couldn't find my bike SN bag.  It wouldn't surprise me if they got lost with their current set up. 

I threw on a bike jersey in T1 so I wouldn't have to worry about getting sunburned on the bike and had plenty of pockets in the back to put an extra bottle or 2. 

pappy - 2010-10-02 4:43 AM I wanted to do the same, but didn't see Cozumel as an event they would be covering. Will they ship them to CZM?

alexinto - 2010-10-04 7:21 PM Question about nutrition needs along the bike ride....

Are we allowed to get bars, water, bottles etc. from family members along the route and outside of the designated bag area?

Tks.