2019 IM Arizona Kick Off Thread
Welcome to your official 2019 race thread! This will be home for you and your fellow teammates who are competing (and have competed) to train, learn and share with one another.
You’ll find lots of historical information here in this forum, and you can search above or use the main forum page. But it’s just as important to add your information from this year -- your workouts, volume weekends, race plans, highs and lows...it’s all here.
Race Captain - We Need One
Ideally your event has a race captain to lead by sharing their training and generally being a really awesome, supportive person online. If you have one, their name is ^above^ … If not, you can request to become the Race Captain via email here (just remember to tell us the race you want to lead). You’ll get a free month of EN membership and some other cool stuff as our way of saying thanks.
We have a basic schedule to support the Race Captain, you can view it here and it’s not a ton of work. Even if you don’t have a race captain, you can all use that schedule to make sure You are connecting around the critical parts of your season.
Looking for Your Fellow Racers?
Sometimes the hardest part of getting the community around a race started is finding your fellow racers! You can do that via our Race Database (online here, password is WORKWORKS) where you can search by race name such as “Placid,” etc. Once you have a list of names, you can use the “@” sign to tag them here in this thread (so they are notified) or you can send them a private message via the Forums as well.
GroupMe Chat
If you are looking for your Race GroupMe, you can search our official GroupMe page online here. Can’t find the GroupMe because There isn’t one for your race? You can request we make one for you via email here.
Have Questions or Need Help?
No worries, we’re here to help! You can send us an email right here so we can help you out. Please be sure to reference your race forum and give as much detail as possible.
~ Brenda
Comments
ok ... looks like this is the official site. I will tag who I saw on the other forum @Peter Noyes @Nam Lam @tim cronk @Sid Wavrin @Jeff Phillips @Gary Lewis @Matthew Goto @Ken Mclaughlin
Adding @Al Truscott to this too
OMG! Don't let @Al Truscott know I missed him!
I’m in too! Should be a fun group.
OMG. Great looking group. I’ll book mark this thread.
Nam
Yes, I will be keeping you all honest. First exhortation...don't start thinking about this race until Labor Day at the earliest.
@Brian Hagan - I am technically registered. still not committed.. I might do a Dirt / Gravel camp with Juan in Brazil... (name that camp!)
where is everyone shacking up?
@scott dinhofer I'm Reserved @ Tempe Mission Palms; tired of the Scottsdale Blvd scene...
@scott dinhofer I copied @Al Truscott
I thought we are not thinking about the race until after Labor Day @Al Truscott :-)
May least now I know where to crash for a quickie post race shower. Lol.
At least
Include me as well. I'm registered! I've got two places booked in Tempe but haven't decided which one I'll keep.
I’m at the Tempe Mission Palms.
Great group, can’t wait to follow along with everyone this season! My first time racing IM in over 5 years.
I be there.
Super 8 on Apache Blvd.
@Patrick Quinn Great to have you back in the "saddle" even though my guess is that doesn't necessarily feel so good! 🤣
Hey all, I’m in too. Looking forward to it!!
I’m registered
I’m at the Tempe Mission Palms
I'm registered
I'm registered as well. Looking for recommendations on a place to stay
shaping up to be a great group.
Yep, big group for sure. I looked in the race database and saw about 13 total who will race IMAZ_19. That’s probably 70% of the whole group.
I believe @DAVID RICHMOND is racing also. If @Coach Patrick shows up after Kona we can make it a Key Race. ~ NOT LIKELY. :-)
I have heard from pretty good source that @Coach Patrick is racing! 🤭
It will be a party for sure. So many EN’ers. We will probably win the team trophy 😂
OH Yeah IMAZ 2019 is gonna be HUGE! Heather and I are in.... She has threatened to retire from Ironman after this race...
Since we are so far out and I'm feeling really brave. Thought I'd throw out some goals.
i’m rooting for you @tim cronk !
it’s shaping up to be a great weekend in Tempe! I’m really looking forward to seeing some old friend again after too long, and meeting some new ones!
@tim cronk You need a sub-5 hour bike for that? 1:15 swim & transitions; 3:45 run...but maybe all your ultras will drop that to 3:35?
@Al Truscott - Yeah the sub 5hr bike wont happen but the math is still there. A 5:05-5:10 bike oughta do it and is realistic. I don't see anything else except maybe 2 minutes in the swim. I'm more worried about the Ultra's slowing down my IM run, but I'm fighting that with 1x per week run speed work and some short run races :-)