Ironman Louisville : Official Thread (Page 90)

Hey, Sam, and all!  Count me in for the meeting and dinner.  It's too expensive for me to bring the whole fam to the dinner, and it'd be great to me everyone who can make it.  I've learned tons from all the posts everyone has put up and continue to!  None of my friends do anything like tri's (most think that I must be out of my mind), so it's been a tremendous encouragement for me, even if we are a community of crazies ; - )

Tailwinds, Todd

My wife is joining me at the dinner.  So be sure to note that there are 2 of us and not just me.

Also, I am definitely swimming that Saturday morning.  I'll be the one with the Alaska tan--one shade darker than a styrafoam cup.

Oh yeah, I'm so down with the coffee beforehand! (midnight shifter here). I'll be alone for dinner as my family will not be coming in until either late friday or early sat. I'm not meeting up with anyone for the dinner so I would love it if I could eat dinner with some of you folks so that I have someone to talk to!

I'm also hoping to meet up with some of you for the practice swim Sat morning...

Jillian- Love the zoot shoes!!

Ashleigh

I love Starbucks, coffee is my addiction! I am a gold card member with them. I have a Starbucks espresso in a can planned for my special needs bags. You will have plenty of people to talk to.

I love all Zoots, the ones in the pic are my racers I use for sprints. I was wearing them to get the mail. I despise and loath flip-flops so I don't own a pair and refuse to ever buy a pair, instead when I need to go outside briefly I slip on these Zoots.

Ashleigh,

I will be flying solo the whole weekend, and I too would definately like some company.  I can take you to the athlete dinner Friday?

Adam

That was me - Amy (amymengel) and mark (bamaDC).  It was so GREAT!!!! 

Amy,

Thanks for the offer.  I may just have to take you up on that offer!!!!!

Alan

Last big weekend for me.

Tomorrow is a 3 hour run and a 1.5 hour ride. Sunday will be 100 mile bike / 1 hour run brick. Looking forward to all of it except for the bike in the rain on Sunday.

Peter

I have a question about the bike aid stations anyone who has done Louisville or other IronMans. Are the bike aid stations crowded? On my previous halfs, I was able to ride straight through the stations and grab bottles of perform/water from the hands of the volunteers while in motion, but these were fairly small races. Is that possible at Louisville or do you have to stop and get off? Does it vary by station (i.e. early stations crowded, later ones not so much)?

I am trying to decide on whether I want to fully load my bike with 3 bottles in transition or if I should plan on being able to pick up fuel as I go along. What's everyone's plan on this?

Saturday: 1hr ride + 2hr transition run
Sunday: 3hr ride + 45min transition run 

Should be able to SLOW DOWN and ride right through. There will be multiple opportunities at each station in case you miss a hand-up.

 Depressed, angry and driving my husband crazy!!!

I started with a slight headcold that turned into a borderline pneumonia...shortness of breath, weak, fever of 102...ahhhhh went to the doc..on antibiotics and rest..YES...rest...not sure if I can do this race eventhough I have been doing all the training....

what to do...what to do... I know if the race was this weekend for sure I would not survive it!!

Any thoughts? ideas? I guess if I can't well...there will be more but it is so upsetting!!!

Spoke with orthopedic surgeon. He suggested to not do anything besides swim until KY. He and my chiropractor both assured me that I will not lose a large amount of endurance. I hope they are right. I have not ran since the 1st.

That means 4 weeks without running and little to no biking. This is going to be interesting...

Adam

Mine is very similar.  90 minute run. 4.5 hour ride / 45 min run brick (aerobic only on the ride - no hard group rides).  I'll probably throw in an hour swim somewhere.

Plan: 2-mile OWS this eve, 70-mile ride w/10-mile T-run Sat, 2-hour trail run and 2-mile OWS Sun.

btw...Did Bikram yoga for the first time this morning.  What a sweatfest!  105-degrees for 90-minutes - much hotter than the other "heated" hour-long yoga classes I've taken.  I didn't feel faint or dizzy, but it was definitely a shock to the system.  I paid for an introductory week, so I'm going to try and take advantage of as many classes as possible.  Probably every morning next week.

Did a 13.1 mile run at planned IM marathon pace last night.  Felt pretty easy.  I wanted to try to work on holding back and feeling like I *could* be running faster - not racing.  I'm sure it's going to feel much different on race day.