Anyone here already interested in a morning ride? Im here from mass and i dont know whicj roads are good / bad / safe. Any suggestions on bike stores?

Cycle Sport Concepts is a Specialized store on Main Street. http://www.csctenn.com/

You would be much better starting off down about 20% of goal race pace. You can always increase once you get going, but once you are cooked, you are cooked.

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^^^^ This, Coreysaur.

I did this the last two years and the above is great advice. Cruise the swim in the middle of the river and don't overcook the bike. Momentum is key on that course and you should be spinning up the rollers then back in the big ring at the top and rebuilding momentum. Over and over. Ride so that you can get through the second loop on the run. This sounds like basic IM advice in general, but in this case I really mean it. Do what ffmedic84 is saying...

There should be amazing crowd support. Have a great time.

Anyone know which bike shop is most likely to carry a xlabs aero botttle? I lefr mine at home

I will be there. Going to be a hot one. Good luck to everyone.

Yesterday was absolutely brutal. I went from on target for my goals to pure survival within 3 miles of starting the run. Ended up resorting to every heat management trick I know to get through the marathon.

But I finished, with a couple hours to spare. And didn't end up in medical either.

Same here. I threw out my aspirations for this race at the start of the run, and went into "just finish" mode. Run was nearly an hour slower than IMLOU last year. Rumor are DNF rate might approach 40%. Brutal day. Congrats on your finish.

Just over 25% DNF. Pretty horrific but not the worst ever.

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Good to know, thanks. What is the record, by the way?

DNF rates postulated on ST typically don't stand up to analysis since they tend to get combined with the DNS rate. So instead of stating a hard number, I will simply say that Ironman St George, the 2012 and final edition, probably had the highest true DNF rate of all time.

St. George is correct. 29% I think.

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Sylvan Smyth | http://www.sportstats.asia | sylvan@sportstats.asia | Starvas

Nice to know; I need to frame that finishers shirt!