NOLA HIM Race Report!

[kacie tri-ing]

Congrats Kacie! Glad to hear the Big Easy was good for you! (sorry about our roads, we don't like them either)

The roads on the actual bike course were MUCH better than the roads I was spinning around on the day before! Thanks to your city for literally shutting down major roads to have this race! It was wonderful!

Great job! Esp. w/ the bottle hand off. I'm just no that coordinated.
BUt SNAKES?????! I hate snakes!! OY. I would have been freaking out. I'm imagining our big daddy rattlesnakes out here being all over the road and shuttering... ugh
Anyway, great job. Kelly Ripa mentioned on Regis and Kelly that she went for a run with Faith Ford and they "ended up on the course that a marathon was being run on".. I was yelling at the t.v. "it was a half IRONMAN you dolt!".
And they also showed a taped piece of them going into a restaurant, and the run course was in the background. Very cool!
And a big congrats!!

I heard that she ran into the "end of a marathon." Not quite! Those times would be pretty rough for a marathon! Oh, yes, the snakes were pretty funny. They were not any rattlesnakes, thank goodness. I did hear people talking about them while we were passing them!

[kacie tri-ing]

I'm very impressed. Your report made me tear up. Congrats!

Thanks for the wetsuit! It really helped me!!!!

[tribogota]

Kacie---
a question that bothers me everyday and I keep forgetting to ask, in prep for my HIM in July...
HOW WHEN WHERE do you get to pee during the race? Or do you just have to hold it all those hours? In the Olympic distance I can hold it the 3 hours I take, but in a HIM?

[HillSlugger]

Thanks for the wetsuit! It really helped me!!!!

I'm so glad it worked out!

[Veronica]

Kacie---
a question that bothers me everyday and I keep forgetting to ask, in prep for my HIM in July...
HOW WHEN WHERE do you get to pee during the race? Or do you just have to hold it all those hours? In the Olympic distance I can hold it the 3 hours I take, but in a HIM?

For Barb's Race last year there were porta potties at the aid stations on the bike course and the run course. There were 3 aid stations on the bike and one at every mile on the run. I'd assume they are setting it up the same way for the Vineman 70.3.

I used them when there were no lines. I think there might have been some at the bike/run transition too. I know there were some at the start at Johnson's Beach.

Veronica

[spindizzy]

Congratulations on your HIM success.

I can only infer from your posts- but you seem like a pretty positive person - I think that's the key to your success - overcoming doubts with positive thoughts while racing - telling yourself that you are well trained. Way to go!!!

[tribogota]

thanks veronica, and what GOOD advice to go when there are no lines! Knowing myself everytime I see one without a line, I'll run in...hahaha. I know that I can make the bike without going...it is the run!

[kacie tri-ing]

Kacie---
a question that bothers me everyday and I keep forgetting to ask, in prep for my HIM in July...
HOW WHEN WHERE do you get to pee during the race? Or do you just have to hold it all those hours? In the Olympic distance I can hold it the 3 hours I take, but in a HIM?

Same idea at this one as Barb's race. There were some in transition, some by the swim start, some at every bike stop, and some scattered throughout the run. I was able to go before (I did wait in line)...and shockingly, I made it through the race!

[kacie tri-ing]

Ok--so even though I am currently sitting around the house icing the parts of me that still hurt, I have finished planning the rest of my season! You might remember that DH had a big accident, so our summer plans have changed to staying around a bit more....so I decided to use that as an opportunity to do more triathlons I signed up for a sprint in 3 weeks, Kansas 70.3 in June, another sprint in August, and the Georgia 70.3 in september! I might have lost my mind Now I just have to stay positive that everything that hurts from the NOLA 70.3 will heal up nicely so I can get back into training slowly next week and start building some the week after that!

[Urlea]

That's beautifully ambitious Kacie! Excited to hear how things progress.

Don't be to hard on yourself about a longer recovery, that's to be expected with a longer race. How awesome that you have two more cracks at it!

[roadie gal]

Sounds like a great race. Thanks for the report. Good job! That's quite the ambitious season you have planned. I'm tired just reading it.

[eclectic]

Sorry I am so late reading this!

You did an absolutely awesome job! ! ! And it went well enough to go do it again.

I LOVED the race report - very descriptive. However, the numb feet is much easier to read about than experience

I was especially pumped to hear how how you worked through the mental aspect of it all.

And I loved the line "we were all kacie's) PERFECT

Will be looking forward to more race reports

[jesvetmed]

Kacie: I just came across this thread. Can't believe I missed it all this time! Congratulations on the great finish and positive race. And also on being so in love with tri's that you signed up for SO many more! WOW!

Have you posted pics elsewhere? Cannot wait to see them.
This helps get me in the mood, too. Mine seems so far off with winter still wanting to hang on here in the Pacific NW, but the reality is it's only 8 weeks away.