My family and I are officially registered to volunteer at IM Louisville this year. This will be the first time I have been at the event, although my parents and sister were there last year at the end. The five of us will be working the finish line (3 as catchers, 2 as general finish line workers) from 2:30-7:30. So, if you’re doing IM Louisville and are planning on finishing in around sub 12-12:30, one of us may just be supporting your dead weight as you make your way through the finish chute and along to the convention center.
I originally wanted to be a catcher for the night shift for a couple reasons. First, it would ensure a good view for some of the dramatic late night finish action. And second, I feel like the 12:30+ finish time crowd will have a higher percentage of people who aren’t as experienced with the distance or had something go wrong and will likely need more help at the finish. However, the idea of getting some good volunteering in during the day, and relaxing with a beer at 4th Street to watch the late night drama unfold was too tempting…so that’s the way we went. I will probably be out there earlier in the day to check out some of the bike action after I get my morning workout in, but no formal work planned, just spectating.
I’m pretty excited about the whole thing.
Updates in my training:
I’m officially in Base2 and did my first transition run last night. The workout was 2h15min aerobic ride (on the trainer…bad weather) followed as closely as possible by a 10 minute transition run. The ride went well and the run went great. I was just over 7min/mile pace for the 10 minutes and my running form felt natural almost immediately. I did feel a little fatigued, but still had energy left at the end. It was not what I was expecting for my first run off the bike…I have 3 possible reasons why this happened:
1. My training and long ride nutrition are coming along ahead of schedule (fingers crossed)
2. The tri-bike position makes a drastic difference in leg energy off the bike…still a good thing
3. I rode WAY too easy on the trainer workout.
I hope it’s not reason 3, or otherwise I wasted an evening with junk miles. I wasn’t terribly motivated going into the trainer ride, but popped in my Lake Placid ride along tape and felt like I pushed at the appropriate times. I did notice that I had more issues with saddle discomfort than anything else and never felt a great deal of fatigue during the ride. Obviously it’s a trainer, so speed means little, but I was in my big gear the entire ride (the back end for most) and had an avg “speed” of 18.9mph, so I don’t feel like I was dogging it…but time will tell.
Also, Ohio is getting a lot of rain right now…not exciting for training, but we need it. Luckily, I only have one more ride scheduled for the week, so hopefully weather will be good by Sunday. The wife and I are headed out of town for the weekend for the 3rd time this month for a niece/nephew b-day…this is the last one for a while. I’ll be getting my longest mini-marathon training run in as well this weekend.
That’s it for now…happy training
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