Ironman Florida : Official Thread (Page 2)

Always nice to meet another Frog!  Our paths should def. cross along the road somewhere.  You should pop in sometimes to the Chesapeake shop.  We have and awesome tri team that trains together three times a week.

I'm just north of Chattanooga in Cleveland.  I'm part of the Chattanooga Tri Club and about 20 of us are doing this race.  If you aren't a member you should look into it. 

I too have been a slacker after my latest IM race in Louisville.  I just needed to take a break for two months.  I'm a up at 4 am exerciser bc I have a young daughter and smoking hot wife that I like to see as much as possible.  It became all too easy to sleep in when I didn't have a race on the books.  It looks like I need to get my butt in gear now!

I will do that, do you guys have Fat Frogs Tri jerseys there, the Va Beach store only sells bike jerseys and I would like to represent my LBS in an IM

Anyone started checking extended forecasts yet?  What about training plans, toe covers, arm warmers, change shorts in T1 or not, rear disc....AHHHHHH!!!!!

I originally posted this in the wrong spot. But now that I found this thread, here you go:

So, what is everyone doing now through the winter months/off season?  We (husband and I) have done Augusta 70.3 on 9/30 and then an OLY the following weekend, which really hurt my knees. So I've been not doing much most of October.

I am now back at running 2-3 times per week, but only short stuff (3-4 miles on week days and 5/6 miles on Saturday).  I am also using this time to improve my swim and I am taking swim lessons to work on my form 2x/week. This has limited my time on the bike to only 1 ride on weekends where we currently ride about 30 miles on rollers.  Starting in January (after the swim lessons) we would like to incorporate a spin class 1x/week and up the weekend rides to about 60 miles at least 1x/month till it gets warmer.

We are planning to start the Fink Ironfit plan about middle of March to give us some leeway for repeating a week in the base or build phase for upcoming vacation etc.

Does that sound about reasonable?  I did Augusta in 5:40, hubby in 6:00 and while our goal is "to finish" in FL, we hope to be done in about 13 hrs.

When is everyone else starting their plans?

I assume all those who volunteered received this email but wanted to post this portion of it for the others.

"Approximately 1400 entries were claimed Friday and Sunday morning and when we went on line in 45 seconds all slot were spoken for. On top of that, by day’s end, all community slots were sold out."

I did Augusta as well.  I'm in week 2 of 16 marathon training (race Feb 17th).  Then, I think I will start a 36 week plan on Feb 25th to get ready for IMFL.  It starts off very slow.  Here is the link.  I plan to do Augusta again.

Book ending my season in Florida starting with FL 70.3 in May, so my training plan that I down loaded from here will start sometime soon for that.  Although I am still looking for alternatives as I have always used BT plans for 5 or 6 years now and would like something fresh.  Might even hire a coach.  With 2 HIM, and 2 iron distant races next season having some help with the builds and proper recoveries might be nice.  I don't want to start too early with the heavy training hours as next November is a long ways off yet.

I have been excited for getting back to PCB for this race since I first pressed the button and was lucky enough to get one of the online spots!! 

Im in as well. (Registered online, lucky!!) 1st time for me and really excited and nervous as hell.

I really love PCB and hope to move down to the warm south some day....

CMonty:  Thanks, I just moved back to the area, and look to join the club soon.  Louisville cooked me good and its been nice to be off -- just too much time off.  Good to have a race on the calendar like you said.

ChrisHatcher:  Not sure if your the one I met in T2 last weekend or not, but good luck training.  Maybe see you at Augusta.

Did my first training ride of the season today, 30 miles with 2 cat 2 climbs.  Not the best ride to start with but if you don't suffer, what do you gain?  Gonna try to do a mix of these climbs with rollers throughout the winter to get legs up to speed before I get on the tri bike.  Need to start back running too.  I haven't run since Louisville due to calf strain.  So now to test it out and do a lot more stretching / foam rollin.

What marathon are you doing? I have one, in Jacksonville, on the 17th also. As for training, this very well could be one and done for me on IM distance races so I want to do it right. Starting in Jan I'll be getting coaching (through someone I met on here). Have to start early as I've got 2 HIM and 3 OLY races already set up for the season, first in March. Want to try and kill myself for the next 10-12 months to go under 12 hours

Did anyone that registered online get an email to alter your registration info? I didn't pay attention that once in our spot was held for 15 minutes and put NA in all fields except Name and CC info to get in

I'm in. Signing up the day before the race this year seemed like a good idea at the time.  The day after... not so much maybe.  But I'm excited now.  Next year will be IM #4 for me.  all IMFL.  I keep flirting with the idea of doing one of the others, but I really like warm water and flat courses.

Looking forward to getting to know you guys during this next year of training and at the race!

Regarding rooms at Shores of Panama, I secured one in September, only a couple of months before the race.  Not too many left, but it was fine.  This year I'll book earlier.  I was already looking yesterday.

I'm doing Mercedes in Birmingham.