Lake Coeur D'Alene

I swam for 15 or 20 minutes in Lake Coeur D'Alene, just a quick dip to check out the water temperature.

Dozens of other athletes were there on a grassy hill, checking bags in or out of the Gatorade tent, changing in or out of wetsuits. I saw that two buoys were out in the water, along with several kayakers on patrol.

The water was cool but not bad at all, I would guess low 60's. The lake was clear - I could see the bottom in 15 or 20 feet of water. Nice!

Checking out the bike course

I scoped out part of the course, along some of the rolling hills towards Post Falls. I rode out-and-back for 44 minutes. I'm not sure of the distance because my bike computer stopped reading at 6.1 miles and 27:03. Aftger getting back to my hotel, I jiggled the magnet around a little and now it seems to be working fine.

I'd like the computer to read throughout the event, mostly because I'd like to know my speed. Time is important as well, and that will definitely work. Distance would be nice but I have a feeling the course will be pretty well marked.

I'm glad I did this - when I started out and mounted my bike, my leg got caught on the water bottles which stick up behind my saddle. I have a new X Lab Flatwing hydration system (space for 2 water bottles, 2 CO2 cartridges, 1 mini CO2 pump, and 2 velcro straps meant for holding inner tubes) I had installed on Monday's tune-up, and my leg clipped it and I fell. Minor issue, but I'll be sure to mount carefully after the swim - I'd hate to stumble with tons of spectators around. ;)

Arrival

I drove out to Coeur D'Alene this afternoon. I packed a huge amount of gear, making no effort to conserve space. I was planning to take a picture of all of it, like I did for a previous event, but I decided against it since I would likely be ridiculed for the amount of stuff I took. ;)

I still had some time after unloading all my stuff into the hotel room, so I did some quick scouting. I found City Park, and saw fences for the transition zone and porta-potties already up. I also visited the merchandise seller and bought some socks, a jersey, and a T-shirt. Yeah, it was inevitable, might as well get the stuff now rather than later.

Lake Coeur D'Alene


The swim venue, right next to City Park, where the transition zone will be.

Training Stats

This is the training I did for IMCdA, not including base training.

Cumulative Training

	Time
Swim	28:26
Bike	137:23
Run	39:22
Total	205:11

Total Training: 205 hours 11 minutes:

• Swim: 13.8%
  
• Bike: 67.0%
  
• Run: 19.2%
  

Average Training per week:

• Hours/week: 8 hours 32 minutes 34 seconds
  
• Swim/week: 1 hour 11 minutes 3 seconds
  
• Bike/week: 5 hours 43 minutes 16 seconds
  
• Run/week: 1 hour 38 minutes 15 seconds
  

I did twice as much bike time as the swim and run combined, which makes sense as biking is my weakest sport. Well, I'm weak all around ;) this is all about getting the endurance to finish one part with enough energy to move to the next. I hope I have done that; I trained about as much as I could without going insane!

Decode Key

Now that this is just about done and the secrecy I started with is no longer needed, time to provide a key to the various initials sprinkled throughout this blog. Basically, if people are mentioned, I trained with them somehow. So thanks everybody, even if you don't realize this blog exists. ;)

• CB or sometimes C - Christina Baribault
  
• KC - Krisanne Combs
  
• CD - Carrie Dunn
  
• G - Gail Edwin
  
• EE or sometimes just E - Eve Enslow
  
• ESR - EastSide Runners
  
• BF - Brian Fenn
  
• RG - Rod Garabarino
  
• BG - Burke-Gilman (trail)
  
• JHS - Jennifer Huffman-Swift
  
• JHS - Juanita High School (should be obvious from context)
  
• T1 - Alexandra Leonetti
  
• T2 - Francesca Leonetti
  
• SM - Shaula Massena
  
• MM - Michael McGoldrick
  
• LM or sometimes just L - Leslie Miller
  
• AM or sometimes just A - Alyssa Moy
  
• EN - Eric Niebler
  
• KO - Kathy Olsen
  
• SO - Sandy Owings
  
• CP - Chris Parker (from Illinois)
  
• CP - Cindy Peters (employee at SVC)
  
• SRT - Sammamish River Trail
  
• SVC - Sammamish Valley Cycles
  
• JU - Joe Umphenhour
  
• RW - Ronan Walsh
  

Swim 6/20

At last, JHS and I got in a long swim. We did about 2 miles in Martha Lake, in 1:22. This is still taper for me - my heart rate hovered around 65% the entire time. Nice and easy...

Week 24

June 13 - June 20

	Time
Swim	2:10
Bike	0:45
Run	0:39
Strength	0:00
Weight	139.0 lb
Body Fat	14.7 %

I'm going to include this evening's swim into the stats.

Cumulative Training

	Time
Swim	28:26
Bike	137:23
Run	39:22
Total	205:11

Bike 6/19

I met JHS at Idylwood just after 8 am, for a swim. Unfortunately, a police officer was there, taking pictures of bald eagles in a tree (!). So we had to wait for him to leave... 45 minutes later. By this time, the motorboat/waterski traffic picked up considerably - one boat was repeatedly buzzing the buoy line, while another actually passed by inside the buoys!

I didn't really want to get in the water at this point, and JHS picked up on this. We decided to bail and regroup tomorrow at Martha Lake, where there are no powered boats.

Anyway, I moved my saddle down just a bit, to compensate for the difference in pedal thickness. I rode for 45 minutes up and down the SRT, including twice up 60 Acres Hill. It felt fine, but I will certainly put in some more rides to double check.