Official Ironman Couer d'Alene Race Day Thread

Brenda Ross

The Team EN tracker and all other related links are on the Dashboard. This place is where you can keep the Team updated on what's going on, your observations, etc....it becomes a really cool record for the athletes to review afterwards too!!!  Thanks Team!

Joe Matchette

Some awesome swim times! Go TEAM!

tgarson

Been checking in an out all day, looks like everyone is starting to roll into the finish line. Congrats everyone, haven't had the chance to read any more official reports than that. Curious how the weather was, water temp, how the rolling start went, etc. 

Look forward to hearing from the finishers. 

helen.king@invis.co.uk

Awesome results! Looking forward to the race reports.

tim cronk

Congrats to all those who race CDA! X3 on the reports!

Mike Weinmann

Will be posting my race report once I can pull my thoughts together, but short answer on swim start is that is was wonderful. Plenty of warm up time, and plenty of room once in the water -- still some contact of course, but nothing like I'd read about in previous IMCDA reports, or experienced first-hand in IMTX. I self-seeded in the 1hr15min to 1hr30min pool (they had two signs connected by rope to separate the seeding groups) and it took ~5 min for me to get in -- can't imagine the later groups were waiting too much longer and I'd say everyone was In well before 7am. They started folks at 6:30am.

Btw, they should make it mandatory for WTC to offer swim warm-up, as it makes such a difference to the initial shock of getting in the water.

Mark Cardinale

X2 on mike's comments about the swim start. Some contact at the turns and coming back in, but overall I was surprised by the lack of contact and the ability to find clear water. And, yes, warm up was great to eliminate that initial cold water shock!