2014 70.3 New Orleans Official Introductory Thread

Brenda Ross

Welcome to the IM 70.3 New Orleans Sign In Thread!

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to your fellow teammates, telling us a little bit about you, your goals for the race, etc!

Chris Oubre

Hello Team EN. I will be racing this course for the second year in a row. I have several family members (6) who will be making this their first 70.3 race. I live in Baton Rouge, am a father of 2 and work a full time job. As such most of my training days start with a 3 as the first digit on the clock. I really enjoyed this course last time and look forward to racing it again.

[Deleted User]

Hi folks, I live in the Chicago atea so this will be a tough race with mostly indoor training. The reason why I picked NOLA HIM is because my daughter was at LSU until last December. So I am tying a bit of vacation with my wife, and a visit to my daughter. Looking forward to racing in warmer weather. I have avson who lives in Manhattan, NY, and another son in Chicago. I work as a sales manager for a global insurance company. Looking forward to meeting the EN NOLA team.

EthanHales

As a perk of living in the area, I've gotten to do IMNO each year since its been here. I'm coming off a foot injury so I'm a little behind in training.  Not sure how the run will go for me.  I've only been running since the end of December and I'm only up to 3 miles for a single run.  I'm also new to EN so I'm just getting the hang of it and I just started the HIM plan today.  Good luck everyone!

PS: I'm also doing the 5150 here March 30th.

 

 

EthanHales

Hope everyone's training is going well.  Just wanted to share a link where you can track the temperature of Lake Pontchartrain.

http://www.saveourlake.org/weekly-report.php

This is updated about weekly and provides water quality and temperature reports.  The closest testing site is #4-Pontchartrain Beach.  Looks like it will be COLD.

Chris Oubre

Thanks for the link! Sorry to hear about your foot. Do what's right for the long term.

[Deleted User]

How salty is Lake Ponchartrain? I am not sure how to interpret a 2.8 salinity? Is that brackish or like the ocean?

EthanHales

The lake is brackish.  Sometimes you taste the salt during a drought, but with the rain we've been getting it should feel like fresh water.

[Deleted User]

@Ethan, thanks, I was hoping for a lot of buoyancy

EthanHales

Plenty of buoyancy in your wetsuit at least! 

Chris Oubre

One thing that caught me off guard on the swim was how it started. You jump off a pier one at a time. When you hit the water you have to start swimming immediately because someone is coming in right after you. I was used to more time to get acclimated to the water temperature.

[Deleted User]

That is interesting, I read about the time trial start, I have never done that. I am in the 55-59 group, we are in wave 14. In Racine our group started right after the pro's so that will be different. I wish I could estimate when our wave hits the water.