Ironman Lake Tahoe : Official Thread (Page 2)

So....my sister, who lives at Stateline, NV @ Lake Tahoe.  She said it was 36 degrees this morning at 7:00 am.

I still trying to figure out who to train for the swim with this piece of information.  

Or how to dress in T1. A cooler race is going to be a whole new experience for me. How quickly will it "warm " up?

At least the water will feel warm!! 

On the plus side, it will not be a HOT run. 

Wow, 35 degrees?!  I swore never to do another cold race after the water temps at CdA.  Apparently I didn't think this one through...

In the meantime, I'm working on CIM this December (only 26 miles, can't handle the 50 mile races you're doing!)  and probably Chelanman 70.3 next July.  I'll likely add one more 70.3 in June as well (Victoria?).

Short answer (based on IMSG in 2010 with similar temperature pattern):  arm warmers and socks for the bike should cover things.  You'll be cold to start, but it'll pass.  Put a towel in the transition bag and take an extra minute to get real dry.  A rough towel will help get some blood back to the surface to warm you a bit. 

Long answer:  IMSG water was colder, so hands/feet were pretty frozen out of the water.  Arm warmers and toe covers on the bike and still shivered quite strongly for first half hour, despite the uphill climb out of the lake.  By lap 2 on the bike, I had to stop to take off the toe covers, as the feet were burning up as the temperature got up to 70 or so. 

If I understand the course at Tahoe correctly, the water "should" be warmer, so hand/feet not so cold to start.  But the bike start is faster than IMSG was, so I'm expecting to just be pretty uncomfortable for the first 45 minutes or so.  By 9:00 or so, it shoudl be upper 50's and low 60's which will feel very comfortable. 

wannabefaster - 2012-11-26 10:51 AM Finished with and mostly recovered from IMAZ, 2012, and now looking forward to next season and IM # 3. Like everyone else, I am a little nervous about the elevation but also really, really excited for this race. I live at 900 feet above sea level in essentially flat Southeastern Michigan so it will be interesting getting the training right for this race. Can't wait. PS. I have considered the altitude tent option but IM racing already strains the marriage a bit. Soooo, asking my wife to sleep in an altitude tent or moving in to the guest bedroom and sleeping alone at altitude may not be the best options.......

Congrats on IMAZ!

x2 on not going for the altitude gizmos.  My husband looked at me funny when I started talking about options, and I could tell it was a lost cause.  I've decided to go in to this race without any time or placing expectations.  I think there's going to be an interesting correlation of finish time with elevation of hometown. 

mango6383 - 2012-11-28 9:03 AM

wannabefaster - 2012-11-26 10:51 AM Finished with and mostly recovered from IMAZ, 2012, and now looking forward to next season and IM # 3. Like everyone else, I am a little nervous about the elevation but also really, really excited for this race. I live at 900 feet above sea level in essentially flat Southeastern Michigan so it will be interesting getting the training right for this race. Can't wait. PS. I have considered the altitude tent option but IM racing already strains the marriage a bit. Soooo, asking my wife to sleep in an altitude tent or moving in to the guest bedroom and sleeping alone at altitude may not be the best options.......

Congrats on IMAZ!

x2 on not going for the altitude gizmos.  My husband looked at me funny when I started talking about options, and I could tell it was a lost cause.  I've decided to go in to this race without any time or placing expectations.  I think there's going to be an interesting correlation of finish time with elevation of hometown. 

Yeah I saw a chart awhile back correlating power numbers on the bike to altitude difference (race vs. what you trained at).  If you train at sea level you'll want to back off more than usual... like 8-10%.

The niece sent along a picture from The Lake today.  First I just need Spring to show up around here....

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Same here.  Ran  30k and 18k trail races in November and December, am making an attempt at a BQ on February 3rd, then racing the Way Too Cool 50k in March.  I've never felt stronger/faster, even though I havent touched my bike in months.    I'll start back up with swimming and riding in mid march after a vacation to Hawaii and another to Boston to watch my wife race.

I saw that WTC posted a participant list with name/age/gender/state details. I did a quick excel dump and wanted to share some stats with you all:

2,874 Participants - doesn't that seem high? Maybe they over-sell knowing that some people won't show up. I thought they were planning on 2,500.

72% Male, 28% Female

We are now 7 months and 30 days from race day.  Attached are some more breakdowns of participants (not sure if I can attach more than one PDF, so this may turn to be three posts)

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Thanks for posting those!  Two things I noticed: holy cow is California representing at this race!  Over half the participants are locals (the next two are Texas and Washington, each with less than 10x the numbers).

And there are likely only 2 Kona slots in my age group.  Likely wasn't going to be an issue for me anyway, but just sayin'.  My chances just took a nose dive