2014 70.3 New Orleans Official Introductory Thread

Brenda Ross · January 6, 2014 1:21PM

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 · January 20, 2014 11:30AM

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] · January 20, 2014 4:29PM

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 · January 20, 2014 8:52PM

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 · March 19, 2014 8:19AM

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 · March 19, 2014 8:53AM

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

[Deleted User] · March 19, 2014 1:12PM

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

EthanHales · March 20, 2014 1:44PM

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] · March 20, 2014 5:42PM

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

EthanHales · March 21, 2014 3:34PM

Plenty of buoyancy in your wetsuit at least!

Chris Oubre · March 26, 2014 11:07AM

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] · March 26, 2014 1:24PM

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.

2014 70.3 New Orleans Official Introductory Thread

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