Ironman Louisville : Official Thread (Page 96)

Sorry to hear, stay strong and focus on your race. There are so many guys who would love to have a hot, fit girl like yourself.

Sorry to hear this Lisa.  It does sound like a really crappy thing to do a week before the race.  Stay focused!!! I hope your doing okay.

Tulkas- No prob, I just feel sorry for them instead of motivated. By watching that vid, I saw a lot more videos that WERE motivating, so that helped! Thanks for the effort in the extra motivation!

Ashleigh

Men are such jerks   Sorry to hear Lisa, if it helps we here on BT will always be there for you, never take you for granted and will be waiting at the finish line for you...well someone besides me because I'm sure I will still be on the course Stay strong.

Lisa- So sorry to hear that you are going thru this so close to IM! We're all here for you! I agree with Trisam, you're a strong and independent woman! You wouldn't be toeing the line otherwise!

Everyone-Old Spaghetti Factory is no longer taking reservations for Saturday night. Most places that I looked up only had later reservations left, i.e. 7-8 pm. I got a reservation at Pesto Italian restaurant for Saturday at 5:30. I don't want to eat late on that night. Good luck to anyone else out there looking to eat dinner downtown!

Ashleigh

Thank you all for the kind words - you are a very sweet group of people.

How about a big *HUG* from me?  Will that help?

We'll all be there in spirit with you!

Ashleigh - I understand completely giving your husband more time for his birthday. I have to tell my wife everyday that it's almost over. She said the other day if I ever decide to do another one of these she'll leave me.

Yesterday, I ended up skipping an hour bike ride so that I could go to my best friend's 40th birthday party. So instead of riding I ate cake and loved it.

Today it's the last kind of long workout. a 35 mile ride / 4 mile run brick. Can't wait to get it in the books and done with.

One week to go and the nerves are kicking in. Lokking forward to getting this done and dreading it at the same time.

Peter B

I woke up this am thinking Holy cow!!! at this time I will be swimming...then later...oh I will be biking...wooohooo I am really excited though I know it will be a sweet and painful experience..lol...

Now I need everyone to please pray and hope this damn hurricaine does not come to Florida!!! this could potentially kill it for me if it does...(can't leave my pets and elderly moms alone) so, please PRAY...CROSS YOUR FINGERS!!..

Have a safe week everyone! it is almost here!!!!

Lisa.....crossing the finish line will only be sweeter for you!!!! Stay strong!!! as TriSam said...if you were not an independent woman you would not be doing an IRONMAN!!

Last weekend in the books!  Got that 2.5 miler in on Fri in 1:15, but the lifeguard station had temp at 66, so I chickened out and wore a wetsuit (didn't want to give myself an out to quit in case it got too cold).  Yesterday, I rode with a group on a local favorite called the Great Western Loop - it's 45 mi ride w/about 3,000' of climbing.  It felt about as easy as it ever has.

Wrapped things up this morning with a sprint race.  I suffered quite a bit on the bike (most likely due to yesterday's ride), but the swim felt great and I just cruised the run.  Raced with the new disc wheel, but I don't know how much difference it would really make at my IM pace.  I think I'll just bring 9.0s for front and back.

When I was heading down the finish chute, eking out that last bit of suffering, I couldn't help but think about next week and how, at about the same time...I'll still be swimming.

See you all in Louisville!

Swim Cut-off:

 3 min. 18 sec. per hundred = 2:20:00, if the pace calculator I used is correct.

Two hours and twenty minutes after

the last athlete in the water.

Adam- to add to what TriSam said: the swim cutoff being 2 hours 20 min after the last swimmer gets in the water... the last swimmer got in the water in 37 min in 2007 and in 45 min in 2008... according to the link that the Cube gave us "11 keys to a successful IMLOU". So if you're the last swimmer in the water and the last swimmer before the cutoff, you'll be done at about 9:00 am. Then you have until 2:30 pm to make it to mile 60. So roughly (not counting transition time) you have 5 1/2 hours to get 60 miles under your belt which is a 10.9 mph average. You then have 4 hours and 20 minutes to make the 6:20 bike course cutoff time which would make you pick up the pace a little and do 52 miles at 12 mph. You then have 3 hours and 25 min to make it to the first run cutoff at the end of the first loop. I'm not sure what the mile marker is at the end of 1 loop, I'm sure it is more than 13.1 since there is the bridge out and back before you get to the 1st loop. But you would need to do the 26.2 at a 12:58 pace to make it back by midnight. This of course does not include any transition times but you can see that you should have plenty of time. That being said I'm hoping to make it back in time! Hope this helps!