Ironman 70.3 Raleigh : Official Thread (Page 2)

Well that depends. Have you started supporting the Falcons and UGA or are you still a die hard Pirate and Pant--- oh wait you are a Cowboy fan. Ok are still at least a Pirate?

Hope the knee is healing.

Still a Pirate and a Cowboy.  

Yep you could be right Bill. When you break it up like that.

Awesome. Great that you are coming up for this one Michael. If you learn to swim before then, please pass some of that on, because I am struggling to get a smooth stroke while wearing floaties.

Just remember, when the swim marshall comes -- you saw them floating in the water and picked them up to turn them in.  And for penance, you have to run a marathon the next day.

I will probably try to get up there and ride the course some time next spring.  It might be fun to try to get a group together.

Anyone out there besides me get a burst of training energy after this past weekend?  I saw part of Kona on the Ironmanlive feed and read some good after-race articles and interviews.

I'm headed out for a run now.  Mainly because I need it...not so much because it will really make a difference come June 2013.

But if you continue to do them from now till June they will make a huge difference.

x200.  I'd be willing to bet that for most triathletes, training over the next 20 weeks has a lot more to do with your success in the race than does training over the 6 weeks prior to the race.  A lot of that difference follows from the fact that if you train well over the next 20 weeks, you will be in a great position to peak for those spring races.   If you (and by 'you' I mean most triathletes, not necessarily YOU) slack off now, you'll spend late winter preparing to go the distance instead of preparing to crush the distance.

If the race is wetsuit legal, it will be very close.  I did a race at this site on June 17 of this year that was wetsuit legal according to USAT rules.  Just remember, WTC rules are slightly different and I believe the wetsuit cutoff is 76.1 degrees (vs 78 for USAT), although you can wear a wetsuit up to 83.9 if you are willing to take yourself out of the running for awards.

Don't know if there is a race that fits prep as a Raliegh 70.3 they might be to close to June 3rd

My tentative plan is to race a half Marathon in March , and an international (bellows Lake) in the spring...we will know more when setups releases there 2013 schedule in a couple of weeks

White Lake Half has been moved to April 6th for 2013.  Look for Belews Lake International to be either April 13th or April 20th.

Tobacco Trail is pretty FLAT.  You may want to try the Raleigh Rocks Half and get a few more hills: http://www.ncraces.com/events/raleigh-rocks-half-marathon-and-5k/ 2012 was on April 1st, so that should be in your timeframe.

Just remember, the sprint will still be the Sunday of the first weekend in May (Saturday of that weekend will be an Olympic/international distance race).  The new weekend in April will be for the half iron only, IIRC.

There will be a new HIM in the fall in the Charlotte area.

There will be an extra race at White Lake.

Kure Beach is no longer but that format will be staged at a different beach/town.

Cool Breeze and Huntersville Triathlon are possibly not going to be back next year.  These two races may be replaced by 1 new event at a facility in that same North Charlotte area.