IM Lake Placid Roll Call

Bumpity Bump

I know we have Jay, Steve, Rusty.  Any others?

It looks like the low will be in the upper 40's and the high in the mid 70's.  Perfect.

Rusty's wife Jennifer is doing it too.......whom I have know for years and is currently doing an upgrade/update to my office..........small world!

Aw. Lisa - you just ratted Jennifer out!

She doesn't' mind - she says she needs all the good vibes she can get. It is actually her fault that I am doing the race again this year. She went up to spectate last year and was so taken with the whole thing she jumped in the open registration line the next day. She has been awesome - started training the week after Lake Placid last year and I would be surprised if she has missed more than 8 workouts since then.

Her bib number is 783.

If you can spare them, I'll take some good vibes as well. I haven't had a single long run all summer due to a pinched meniscus. I am in "do-no-harm" mode, so there is a chance I may bag the run - it will be a game-day decision for me.

A couple of other good friends and Atlanta and IM first timers that are going up:

Her: Bib #272 (She lurks a bit on BT)

Him: Bib #331 (He could KQ if he does not get caught in a bike race or get lost on the run course)

Looking forward to meeting Jay and any others that are racing or volunteering at the Friday morning BT swim meet up - 9am @ Mirror Lake!

Rusty-

That is really cool.  Your wife is going to kick some booty and have the experience of a lifetime.

We will definitely be pulling for her and the lurkers.

I'm late to this thread.  I'm in for Lake Placid!  We start heading north in abut 2 hours.

Bib #1865

Good luck to all, have fun and do your jobs. We will keep an eye on you guys

It's race day!

Right now it's 56 degrees in Lake Placid, and the high to day should be around 80.  There is a chance of thunderstorms through out the day. 

Pros start at 6:50 and the cannon goes off at 7:00 am for the age groupers.

Here is the Athlete Tracking

Our Athletes are:

Rusty is 2331

Jennifer is 783

Molly the Lurker is 272

Todd the Fastie is 331

Jay (sluggo) is 1865

Steve is 2079

Good luck to everyone!

Everybody made it out of the water and is looking good.  Some smokin' fast swims by the Georgia BTer's.

Todd is averaging 24 mph through the first 30 miles of the bike.  Yikes that is fast!

Rusty is averaging 23 mph

Jay 19 mph

Molly 21 mph

Steve and Jennifer are not through the 30 mile check point yet.

2 people that I know of, 1 is a Dynamo guy, the other a local stud who swims at Dynamo...

Jason Schott: #1879 (he's won AG Nationals before, aka the local stud)

Ron Heidt: #2664 (Dynamo Athlete)

Good luck to all out there today!

Rusty had a solid 4:09 run to finish in 11:20

Jennifer was steady and consistent all day and finished in 15:13

Molly the Lurker was top 20 in her AG with a 12:22 finish time.

Todd the Fastie was the first of the group to finish in 11:14.

Jay (sluggo) showed his toughness to finish in 14:09

Steve finished his first Ironman in 15:04. 

Great races folks.  I can't wait to hear how it went.

Looks like Jason had a tough day, but Ron 13:55. 

May I be another to wish you all congratulations on a job well done! What a day for it.

Also thanks to Doug for keeping us up to date!

After a few days of planes, trains and automobiles we have just made it to Northern Michigan for a week of official post-IMLP vacation. I am looking forward to getting some laundry done and sitting by the water and restoring my carbohydrates. I'll be working on my race report over the next couple of days, but I think it will be pretty boring - the day was seemed fairly routine from beginning to end for me, which is a good thing I suppose. The short report is that our whole crew had a really good day on Sunday. I went 11:20:47 with which I was thrilled. The swim was spot-on where I thought I should be based on my training, and the bike was only 5 minutes slower than expected. My power meter was whacked from the get-go but once I figured that out I just switched off the power data fields and went by RPE with an occasional glance at HR. Prompted by the ongoing discussion in this group I have worked this year to figure out my actual nutritional needs versus simply what i can tolerate, which means that i raced this year on about half the calories from last. I pretty much just ate and drank as I felt necessary. The run was my unknown due to the lack of running this summer due to a knee injury, but I just took it out pretty easy on the first loop and a half. I was really happy to not have any problems with my knee - my only real limiter on the run was my feet got very tired very fast due to lack of time on them - I felt like I had to run "gingerly" to make the distance. So I didn't have the run I had planned for back in December when I put together my goals and training targets, but I had the exact run I was trained to do, which gives me some confidence in my plan for next year.

I haven't been able to get through all of the results, but from the ones I have seen there were some really fantastic performances out there from BT folks - SEADOCHA went 12:10 for her first IM and on very little race experience, and 03JDMorris pretty much destroyed the field with a typically incredible performance (5th overall, I think). The BT BAMF award goes to Cornick though - dude smashed his collar bone three weeks before IMLP but still gave the race a whirl - he made it in just before midnight with his arm taped up tightly to his midsection.

it was great to meet Jay even though i had to go all the way to Lake Placid to do so. Jennifer and I are signed up for next year. We will probably get a couple more tris in before the season is over, but I am really looking forward to getting on my road bike for some real long distance riding and letting this knee finally get back to 100%. I will definitly be in for six gap, and am giving some serious thought to 10 Gap. Anybody do that one before?

thanks again for following along and for all the PMs and inspires - they mean a lot!

Hi all - getting settled back in ATL and finally got around to writing a race report for Lake Placid. It is uniquely boring (seriously - it was a rather uneventful race for me compared to last year) but at least it has pictures!

http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=454151

Just signed up for Richard B. Russell. Should be ugly.