Ironman 08 - Location
mozza
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Ladies and Gents,
First season of doing Olympic Tri this season, just finished Chester (2hrs 30mins), Wakefield in 2 weeks and then Bala. Doing this with a view to finishing an Ironnman next year and wondered what peoples thoughts on location were:
Sherbourne - if I only do once I fancy doing it abroad
Nice - find the heat really tough
Austria - still quite tough.
As I say will probably only do 1 and then go back to Olympic so looking for moderate weather, good scenery and reasonable challenge - thoughts?
Also - how does training for ironman effect Olympic times? & bearing in mind my Olympic time how long should I give myself for a focussed Ironman training programme.
Thoughts appreciated..........
First season of doing Olympic Tri this season, just finished Chester (2hrs 30mins), Wakefield in 2 weeks and then Bala. Doing this with a view to finishing an Ironnman next year and wondered what peoples thoughts on location were:
Sherbourne - if I only do once I fancy doing it abroad
Nice - find the heat really tough
Austria - still quite tough.
As I say will probably only do 1 and then go back to Olympic so looking for moderate weather, good scenery and reasonable challenge - thoughts?
Also - how does training for ironman effect Olympic times? & bearing in mind my Olympic time how long should I give myself for a focussed Ironman training programme.
Thoughts appreciated..........
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What about Lanzarote, if u only ever do one, then make it a good one.
hi mozza
good time for chester i was entered but got injured 4 days before, hoping to do IM next year, not sure which one yet, austria, lanzarote,
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If your doing it as a holiday too then I couldnt recommend anywhere better, great country, people and weather. I am lucky and have friends in Taupo itself so have no worries about where to stay or support. The local community get right behind the event too and many family's host foriegn entrents plus some of the local company's sponsor too. Fresh water lake swim, a great bike course and a pretty much flat run.
Entry's open Monday 2nd July 9:00 am NZ time.
www.ironman.co.nz
Can you guess where I am racing March the 1st next year.
Paul
I think I am starting to settle on Austria because of access, scenery and weather?!
my 50th birthday. Its a great event and very well organised.
I did it with my wife ( same age...) and enjoyed it so much we returned
in 2005 and did it again. I can go on at great length as to why its a great
first Ironman.....so if want lots of my impressions please let me know.
The wife and I did Swiss Ironman two Sundays ago...not great for us.
She was knocked off her bike by a crazy guy in an Audi after 160km
of the bike...she's not a happy camper at the moment.
Lots of reasons why we did'nt enjoy the event but mainly the traffic
Even the friendly car drivers were a pain.
We enjoyed the Swiss experiance and enjoyed many aspects of the
event....but overall not like Austria.
We intened going back to Austria.
Cheers
Any luck?
Must agree![:)]
Austria fills up within 19 hours this year, Lanzarote fails to fill up in 12 months.
Hopefully see a few of you out there
I'm doing Lanzarote 08. Like you mozza, my first season this year. London will be my third Olympic and also doing the vitruvian in September as way of a longer taster.
Have recently read 'Going Long' and currently reading 'Get Iron Fit'. Just can;t get enough ironman info at mo. Think I'm getting obessed!!
I intend to follow the intermediate training program in Get Iron Fit, which doesn't seem too daunting. It would be interesting to hear from anyone else who has followed that.
When do you start training for Austria?, Because of a May ironman I have to do majority of my training through the winter. Still the wind will be good prep for Lanza!