Let the *FREAK OUT* Begin....

[Lise]

Hmmmm... I like Iron MAMA. I just might try to change my user name to that. Of course everyone from the runnersworld forum to trinewbies knows me as "running Mommy. It's been my moniker for years... Another reason why my lurker cousin was able to pick me out on this forum.. heh heh heh
I just might change it next week from Iron wanna be to Iron "gonna be".. whaddya think??

I like 'em both!

What are you thinking about the wetsuit?

[Running Mommy]

THE ATLETE GUIDE IS UP!!! And it's 20 pages long!! Sheesh!
So y'all wanna guess what I'm going to be spending my morning reading???

Ok, so now it's getting *really* close, and VERY real! Like when I get an email from IMNA that reads "Dear Ironman Athlete" I immediately get a pit in my stomach!

Boy howdy this sure is different from those baby races I usually do!

[Running Mommy]

On the run course...
NO FORM OF LOCOMOTION OTHER
THAN RUNNING, WALKING OR CRAWLING
IS ALLOWED.

[KSH]

On the run course...
NO FORM OF LOCOMOTION OTHER
THAN RUNNING, WALKING OR CRAWLING
IS ALLOWED.

So, I guess the guy who "runs" marathons skipping... would be DQ'ed?

I have so many issues running, I thought skipping would *save* me. Guess that is ruled out. Oh well.

[Nanci]

Well, if I can't do cartwheels, I'm not going.

Nanci

[Running Mommy]

You know it's a serious race when they devote 1.5 pages of the athlete manual to hyponatremia!!!

So I emailed the girl in charge of the adopt an IM program to see if she had an inside track on when the bib numbers will be released. I'm trying to write up instructions for my classes to be able to track me. So she emailed me back that she forwarded my email to Paul Huddle the RD. How cool is that?! I'm SOOO antsy to know what my bib number is.... I don't know why? I just am.. I know, I know.... I'm a FREAK!

[Lise]

Not a freak! Just freaking out!

My secret race strategy involves crawling, always. Glad to hear it's legal.

Hey, now, I just remembered seeing the Blazeman roll across the finish line at Kona...under his own power...he laid down and just rolled over it. Surely that's legal?! They wouldn't DQ the Blazeman at the finish line!

Let us know your bib number, and we can start to do a numerology evaluation! I remember being happy when I got a "5445" bib for the half-marathon, because it all adds up to a multiple of three, and we know what a powerful number that is...OK, I'm a nut.

I am so excited for you to be reading the athlete guide! Is it online? I wanna see! I wanna see! L.

[Running Mommy]

yeah it's online. Go to Ironmanarizona.com. There is a little hot link on the upper left corner near the news section. It's a pdf. So many things to remember! OY!!
Knowing my luck I'll get #666!!!!

[Running Mommy]

Last chance to drop out...

Dear Ford Ironman Arizona Participants,

We will be assigning race numbers to the 2006 Ford Ironman Arizona race early next week. If you are not racing and do NOT wish to have a race number assigned, please let us know by return email on or before Tuesday March 28th. Be sure to include your name in the body of the email.

If you have any other inquiry, please feel free to email us at admin@ironmanusa.com be sure to include the subject of your inquiry in the subject field, it will help us route your inquiry and expedite the response.

Thank you

Marc Lees

Ironman North America

Nahhhhhhh.... BRING ON THE PAIN (mad dog race face)
(me after I finish)
(the color of the pretty finishers medal)

[Lise]

If you are not racing and do NOT wish to have a race number assigned, please let us know by return email on or before Tuesday March 28th.

No WAY!

[Running Mommy]

I found something on the IMAZ website forum that I thought was interesting. A girl was having phantom pains so she emailed her massage therapist to see if it was the massage and this was the therapists reply. I found it quite interesting and maybe useful to us gals who "go long"

I don't think it's massage pain because you really were not that bad this time. I think it may be more tapering. Tapering...the lesser mileage and time spent exercising causes the muscles to change their tension. Not the same pounding or exertion, so they begin relaxing a bit and change their length. Each muscle fiber may change differently than the next...this change in tension also changes the pull around each joint...many times this change causes achy pain...like the flu..weird aches and pains that you never had before. This change in tension seems to trigger all the proprioceptors...including the pain receptors unfortunately. It is a very strange phenomenon. And it seems the more intense your training, the worse your taper may be...but I also have seen that the more uncomfortable taper phase, the better the race performance...so keep the faith. You may want to try upping the intensity, like we talked about, with the shorter mileage. Meanwhile, take drugs, drink wine, and this too shall pass..........