Ironman USA Lake Placid : Official Thread (Page 93)

I've been watching it for a while... not that I can change anything, but more out of curiosity.  In the past few days it has gone from Thunderstorms to Sunny and 70's, to 80's and humid, to cloudy with rain.  It has actually been pretty funny that the weather is different pretty much every day I've looked   So I'm going to plan for dry or humid with a chance of hot sun, thunderstorms, hail, wind, and locusts.

I got a ticket for my wife just to keep options open, but I think she has other ideas....
Will be at the awards ceremony though - I figure it is my chance to cheer for all those folks that got in early enough to cheer for me finishing!

You mean it is not going to be 103 degrees and 97% humidity????? Well there goes all my training....

After yesterday in Georgia, I am having a difficult time believing that I might be wearing arm warmers in 10 days...

ETA: and oh, after getting two yellow jackets down my jersey and one in my helmet yesterday, locusts I will take.

Me too. Any idea how to actually get the ticket? I have the active.com confirmation. Wonder if that will get her in the door. I don't usually do the "banquet" thing but this may very well be a once in a life time gig. I've put other interest and pursuits on hold for IM training and do miss them. And sleeping in on the weekends. I miss that a lot.

too right - all my spare time it training, sleeping or on the roller (and unfortunatley at PT recently)...  work is the best time to read this stuff and think IMLP....   Some A hole just slammed me with a 1pm meeting....   DECLINE - Reason - swim session.

i know some people hate weather chat, but when i was in LP a few weeks ago, the forecast at that moment was sun.  it was down.   the next day it was meant to be raining per my phone and i was applying sunscreen.

I Love Placid.....

I love route 9 (D i believe)

I love the Bears

I love the cow bells

I love the fact that we are going to be able to call ourselves something very strange

I love the fact that we`ll finish something that only nutters decide to start in the first place

I do not love steep run *2 in the town.

I love the 46er beer at the brewery

priorities!!

What do you do when you get to the run? Turn on the GPS?

Hi IMLPeeps! I had an idea that I thought might catch on, who knows? I thought it might be cool to read some of the best training moments everyone has had leading up to the race. Reading stuff like that is inspirational to me and thought it might be for others too. Here are a few of mine:

- On a bike ride in West Virginia going up a hill that seemed like it went on for miles and miles with a friend. We stopped at the top, ate, bantered about LP, turned around and coasted for miles!

- After I hit the 100 mile mark for the first time on my bike, I went for a run. I had set up my car as an aid/changing station but not really mapped out the run so I ran aimlessly for an hour. I couldn't believe how well I was running for just having ridden 100 miles... I was just in a zone... and this gave me a ton of confidence for Ironman.

- Pretty much every run I did on the mall which is my favorite place to run - But on one in January, I took a picture of the reflecting pool frozen solid - At that point, Ironman seemed so far away in my mind

- Setting a 10 mile PR at Cherry Blossom 10 miler and thinking to myself that IM training must be doing something!

- Swimming in Mirror Lake during training weekend for the first time - It was one of the nicest swims I've ever had.

Ryan

Cool idea!!

- Taking 2nd in my AG at Harryman HIM, my "tune up" race

- Feeling great after a 16 mile run

- Not feeling horrible after a 20 mile run

- Getting in a very hilly 100 mile solo ride

- Cranking out 4k yard swim sets like I'd been doing them all my life

- Getting back to training 100% after the injury

* After bombing a big hill in my aerobars a car rolls up next to me at a stop sign and rolls the window down.  I was expecting to get yelled at or hit with a soda can.  Instead the guy yells "DUUUUDE...you were going 47 MPH!!!  FORTY FREAKING SEVEN....YEAH Baby!!! YEAH!!!"...haha, that was funny.  He was so excited for me.

* Looking at my Garmin during some Z4 mile intervals last week and seeing I was holding a 5:45 pace steady.  I've never seen a "5:XX" appear in anything pace related...including wind sprints .  Thought the satellite was surely wigging out on me, but I did it again and felt great.

I have always enjoyed going long and solo on the bike, but am also perfectly willing to scratch a ride if the weather is a little shifty. Signing up for IMLP a year ago gave me the focus to hit all of my target workouts no matter what. Some of the most memorable:

- 5 hours on the bike in the driving snow.
- 5 hours on the bike in the mountains in the pouring rain.
- 5 hours on the bike in 95+ degrees.

All of these were great because it felt like the weather was just part of the training - I figure any/all of that could happen during the bike leg of IMLP.

Other general things are the fact that I have learned to quit playing "beat the clock" on my workouts; I go exploring on long runs instead of running the same old familiar routes and it has been 11 months since I have had my bike computer even display miles traveled and MPH. It is just time, HR, power, and cadence.

I also REALLY enjoyed all the 2~3+ mile OW swims this summer - it is a lot of fun to get in the water and actually go somewhere that you cannot see from the shoreline.

This is honestly about the only part I will not miss from IM training - the "trunk transition" - I swear I think I need a bigger car:

I am also very pleased to (touching wood) be injury free and far from burned out - I am ready to go!

Here's some info:
http://www.whiteface.com/summer/activities/hiway.php

I believe that the "not open when the cars are on the road" is an old rule that was changed last year.

Another link:
http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2010/06/to-top-biking-whiteface-memorial.html

Never done it myself... Biked to the toll booth plenty of times. On my to do list after IM.