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F'ueco

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Ironman Canada
« on: August 26, 2010, 09:06:11 AM »
Greetings from SFO!

 We're off to Vancouver and then to drive half-way across British Columbia to Ironman Canada. The race is on Sunday. You can track us at http://www.ironman.com/.

 My race number is 514, and Joan's is 2272.

 It's gonna be fun!   ;D
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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2010, 03:14:02 PM »
Much good Mojo to the two of you and
here's to sweat in your eye
Here's to sweat in your eye

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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2010, 12:19:20 PM »
Good luck!!! Kick some ass, sea bass!
SCREWD4LYFE!!

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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2010, 03:00:06 PM »
Whoohoo, congratulations, F'ueco and Joan!!!

BIB    AGE    STATE/COUNTRY    PROFESSION
2272    30    SUNNYVALE CA USA    SOFTWARE ENGINEER
SWIM    BIKE    RUN    OVERALL    RANK    DIV.POS.
1:18:36    6:15:51    5:03:01    12:51:51    1449    70

BIB    AGE    STATE/COUNTRY    PROFESSION
514    34    SUNNYVALE CA USA    FUDGE TASTE TESTER
SWIM    BIKE    RUN    OVERALL    RANK    DIV.POS.
1:17:13    6:13:26    5:07:55    12:51:51    1450    162

Did you cross the finishing line arm in arm??? That's sick! In a good way, of course....  :D
Inch by inch, I will get there.

F'ueco

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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2010, 03:04:26 PM »
I guess I could have at least responded to say that, yes we did finish... In fact, we finished together.

I had a somewhat lackluster swim due to be in a lake with 2800+ other people. Not my idea of fun! But I survived the swim in 1:17:13, 24 seconds slower than my previous Ironman swim... Disappointing, but there were still two more events to go!

I hammered the first 2/3 of the bike (first 42 miles in 2 hours, 4 minutes!) before getting a cramp. I got off my bike to use a porta-pottie at one of the rest stops and my left quad cramped. So I took it easy after that, which combined with the headwinds, rain and chillier weather slowed me down a lot. My total bike time was 6:13:27, which was still 2 minutes, 23 seconds faster than at New Zealand!. Not bad, and I still had energy for the run this time around!

 My total run time was 5:07:56, compared to 6:08:43 at New Zealand. Not bad! I was struggling mightily about 14 miles in when Joan caught me. She force-fed me a couple of GU's and I was good to go after that. She says that I dragged her to a PR once I revived myself. So we finished together in 12:51:51. I broke my old PR of 13:55:38, and she broke her old PR of 12:59:06 (both set at IMNZ in '09).

 Good times!

 Now I'm dreaming of doing Ultraman Canada in 2011! That's 10km of swimming, 260 miles cycling and 52.4 miles of running spread over three days!  ;D
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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2010, 03:07:15 PM »
Live from Boulder, CO...

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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2010, 03:11:39 PM »
Good job!!!

Are you allowed to draft in an Ironman? Or is everyone on their own to cope with the headwinds?

Now that you two are Ironcouple, you want to be Ultracouple? Good for you!!!
Inch by inch, I will get there.

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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2010, 03:15:44 PM »
yowza mikey!

kick ass
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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2010, 03:18:10 PM »
No drafting. You're not allowed to be within 4 bike lengths of the person in front of you except to pass!

I'm pretty sure we're already an Ultracouple! Surely the 3 ultra cycling races Joan has finished and the 1 I finished count!  ;)

We're just moving on to new layers of crazy!
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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2010, 09:44:34 PM »
DUDE! Nice job (both of you)!!!!! Incredibly impressive!
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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2010, 03:49:40 AM »
Yeah it is......Whoa. :o
Fairly ultra already. Kickass!
Holy crap! oh, please little hook stay, please stay, that's right you're fine........And  Yes! off THAT manky shit. Whew.

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Re: Ironman Canada
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2010, 05:54:22 AM »
Congrats on the finish.  Hand in hand across the line.  Gotta say that is fairly cool.
Here's to sweat in your eye