IMUSA 2011 -- Who's In???
I saw a lot of folks in line (including me, don't tell Rich!) and many more online. Who's officially in?
Patrick
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I saw a lot of folks in line (including me, don't tell Rich!) and many more online. Who's officially in?
Patrick
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2011 will be an off year for me (aka family vacations that don't involve S/B/R), but I will be there in 2012.
congrats to all 2010 IMUSA participants and for those doing 2011...
I'm in but first, IM Canada in five weeks!
Cheers,
The registration process was longer than any IM marathon I have done but I managed to suffer through. I figured if I got in line early [a little after 7] I would be out of there early and able to work most of the day. Walked out of the Gym a little after 11:40. They need to learn about that really new technology where you can swipe a credit card through a reader. Having people manually enter the CC info into active was painful.
Regardless - plan is to bring bigger watts and fewer kg to the 40-44 party next summer!
Yes there was some online registration it's hard to say what next year will bring. If the economy is better that may force the race to in-person only.
While I would highly recommend the trip out to spectate and volunteer you may also consider the community fund slots. They have changed the name I believe. If you can't spare the time to get down I believe $1100 will get you in.
Gordon
I'm in. Agreed, even with volunteer registration, it was a lot of waiting. In line at 7:30. Out at 12:00
It likely would have been more cost effective for me to just buy a multisports.com slot than to waste a day standing in the line like that. 1080 is really not that much more than 600. Hell I just checked and they still have slots for Moo this year. Besides then I would have gotten their awesome training plan [that looks a whole lot like the one in their book they sell for 14.95] emailed to me in 4 week blocks by heather fuhr.
Or I guess it might be better spend the extra 75 bucks and go community fund. People always talk about it being tax deductible but my charity donations never really end up saving me anything. I guess it goes to a better cause that Roch and Frey...
I will be giving back next year and I will be volunteering in some capacity. I had no idea just how much those volunteers can make your day.
Now I figure I can try to improve on the time from this year.
@Bill ; I;ve never signed up for a community fund slot but as I recall it may take a little time for them to open up after the race. With all the changes though this may not be the case.
Gordon
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Lets start working on the community housing plan. Maybe start a informal sign up as to who would be interested in getting a block of rooms, a few condo's etc. Keep cost down, have everybody in a central location, etc. Let me know what I can do to help.
Dave
x2 on community housing plan. I'm in touch with a couple of local rental agents and volunteer to coordinate this.
I'm in. Looking forward to improving on the first time 'round.
I am interested in hearing about community housing. Will have my wife and kidlets and have a buddy brining his wife and kidlet as well.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a Community Fund slot DOUBLES your entry fee. Yeah. Let that wash over you for a moment......
Ok, back to reality: I held my nose and paid the fee. I give more than that to charity each year, so it just means I will now be less charitable elsewhere. If it is a zero-sum game, then I guess I have to be ok with it.
Anyway, LP2011 will be my third Ironman race and first time at Lake Placid. Looking forward to the journey.
Online registration was open for about 15 minutes. Active had me in (I entered at 12:00:01pm), had me fill out the forms, and crashed me out.
Part of me feels good about this as I think it is a positve statement about the economy. Part of me would rather have taken a swift kick in the butt than pluck down $1200, but I did it.
What early season races are folks thinking of? I'm plnaning to do the Birkebeiner ski race which is a 50K race on February 26th. It's the biggest ski race in North America, and I was planning to do it last year with Noodle, but we had a death in the family and I wasn't able to race. Looking forward to it, so hopefully we'll have good snow again this year. Also planning on racing the City of Lakes Loppet on February 6th. Last year I added the ski training on Tuesday nights (in place of brick run), Friday afternoons, and Sundays, and it seemed to work out fine. The variety was great, and my legs held up fine. Skiing definitely made the winter much more managable...changes your whole perspective on snow!