Ironman Coeur d'Alene - The Numbers

Some interesting, or not so interesting (all depends on what you are in to) numbers from Ironman Coeur d'Alene.

Overall: Starters = 2153, Finishers = 2032, My Rank = 1330

Age Group: Starters = 100, Finishers = 90, My Rank = 48 (The next finisher in my age group was 6 seconds after me. She had an hour and 9 minutes on me going into the run. This is why I'm glad I held back on the swim and the bike. To hold it together for the run.)

Goggles knocked off = 4 times. All on the first lap. It was insane!
Water temp = 62. Like a bathtub. :)

Average heart rate on the bike = 129. Number of times I thought there were strange birds in the Coeur d'Alene hills before remembering I had turned the alarm on on my Garmin to let me know I was pushing too far into zone 3 = embarrassing number. But once I realized those were not birds chirping at me, and that it was my Garmin yelling at me I was on top of it. Easy spinning up the hills. Sticking to my race.

Number of times peed in Wisconsin = 0. Number of times peed in Coeur d'Alene = 17. Number of stops = 7. You do the math on that one. I will let you know that 5 times were during the swim. Post race results of all this pee talk. Wisconsin - Medical tent for IV. Coeur d'Alene - Food tent for pizza. Did I over compensate a little from fear of a Wisconsin repeat? Maybe. Was 17 times a little extreme? YES! Is there a happy medium out there? I sure hope so.

Consciousness of the people around me as I headed to the finish line = 0%
Consciousness of the time on the clock = 100%
Maybe there is a happy medium for this one as well. A little more celebrating and absorbing the finish wouldn't hurt.

Time cut from Wisconsin 2007 to Coeur d'Alene 2009 = 1:32:09.

The goal = 13:30. The finishing time = 13:30:44. Success!