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Ironman Regensburg 7th August 2011 - entries open 5th July
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meldy -
you mean he shouldn't ask oxy along,
or that we should all make trifles??
just added my name to the list..
Aitch!
AliAird
Arctic.Lady
Artful Hen
Barley
Bedders
Cake
Calf
Cona
Cougie
Dan
Drumnadrochit
Egoman
Ergo
Experimental Penguin
GarrsMateNige
gas-man
GOM.
Hope
ISB
JWRun
Happychap
Happychap's mate Jules (entered voluntarily - no strongarm tactics)
Happychap's mate Phil (is so gullible he thinks he's doing a sprint)
Lee the Pea
LN
Magna Carter
Mandel
Meface
Meldy
Milesawaygirl
Mittybob
Never To Late
OrangeCannon
Orca
Pkim (For now...can still change my mind)
Pop Up Pundit
PurpleTriLady
Ratbag
Rio
Rodeo Clown (well for now but might change my mind yet)
Shuffle Bunny
Steve Ho
Suffolk Punch
Toucs
UIW
Waff
WildWill
only just found out there a steve O in kick ass. kind of alway wonder why people mension kick ass when they hear my name. feeling rather embarrassed now....
yep i'm doing this and outlaw...
come on cake your silly enough like me to do both... go on it wouldn't kill you.....
WOW
That's some list.
I'm hoping entries will still be open at the end of this month when I'm going to enter.
anyway I'd be grateful for any advice ?? Even to tell me I've no chance of completing in such short time in the sport !!!
Not sure if this helps but I had only done two pool based sprint tris before I did my first IM. If you train properly and are determined enough then of course it's possible.
See you at Rengensberg
If youve got most of the kit already, i.e. wetsuit, bike shoes etc the costs of an German Ironman are in the region of (these are based on what I paid for IM Germany this year)
£350 entry
£250 hotel (4-5 nights)
£200 flight (maybe a lot cheaper if you book early)
£25 airport parking
£140 car hire for transfer (inc fuel), you could save money here by making other arrangements, also I know a reasonable number will consider driving there instead of flying.
Other costs you need to factor in are warm up events, e.g. sportives, middle distance tri, swimming pool entry, all the gels etc youll need for training, spare tubes, bike maintenance/service.
Ironman isnt a cheep hobby but worth the costs in my opinion.
Schimples
Most people go Thursday return Tuesday.
One of the chaps in our bike club just posted this...think he might be speaking from experience!
IM - training or no training?
There are multiple differences between doing an IM with training and one without training. Here are some thoughts in case you ever considered trying one with less or even without training:
When you are trained and in shape, you swim steady, you ride your heart rate and watt limits, and you move as fast as you can while trying to keep you nurtured.
When you don't do much training, you swim steady, you ride your heart rate and watt limits, and you move fast as you can while trying to keep you nurtured. The only difference is that you go really slow.
When you train, race support vehicles are there to help you with mechanicals.
When you don't train, race support vehicles are there to encourage you to speed up if you want to make the bike cutoff.
When you train, you want to finish in time to shower and eat before the late night party at the finish line to cheer on the midnight finishers.
When you don't train, people throw a huge party for you at the finish line.
When you train really hard, you can finish in under 10 hours and people are like, "big deal…" as you cross the line.
When you don't train, you finish close to midnight and people go bonkers telling you how great you did and how awesome you are. Very strange!
When you don't train, WTC gives you free glow sticks as a special gift during the race. How could you not like free glow sticks? You could put them around your neck, make loopdy-loops around your wrists, or hold them with your hands and make cool designs by swinging your arms wildly. But don't hold one in each hand with your arms extended while moving them front and back or a small plane might try to land on your head during the race.
When you don't train, the athletes around you that are farting on the race course are old ladies and fat dudes instead.
When you train, you worry about not getting too close to other cyclists which results in a drafting penalty.
When you don't train, you sometimes wish you saw other cyclists to gain comfort that you are still on the official race course and not lost.
When you don't train, there's no toilet paper left in the Happy Can's. You do your best to improvise because it's rather dark in there at that hour of the evening. Fortunately glow sticks aren't like those blue light sticks they use to investigate bacteria in hotel rooms. They just help you in a jam to tie your stretchy pants back up.
When you train, the sponges that volunteers hand you are cool and refreshing squares of paradise.
When you don't train they've been thrown on the ground and recycled enough times to provide you with something like a "poor man's micro dermabrasion." They turned into a piece of pumice stone! Not to mention some leftovers of *** inside them
When you don't train you can stop and piss anytime you want right in the middle of the road. It's too dark for anyone to see anything.
When you don't train there are plenty of chairs available in the transition change tents. Take your pick. And the ratio of volunteers to athletes is now raised to 10:1 at that point. You can tell two guys to put your shoes on for you and one guy to unload and load your bag. And they`ll do!
When you don't train, it's really easy to find your run special needs bag. Although the volunteers can be heard saying, "Wow, we had bets that you DNF'd."
Now go back to training a bit more serious before you try that stunt! Very tough, not very bright