iron07 wrote:
Ok be honest, who today needs to sit down with a big ass bowl of crow and chow down?
here's what I said on page 2. My comments weren't so much that he couldn't do it, but that he was (at the time, all running no swimming or biking) doing it wrong and he needed to get his mind wrapped around the problem (the Ironman is all about the bike, because the run). Coming from somebody who knows, who did what he did but on a much longer timeline. Ability is only half the equation, as Russ said the other half is execution and those of us mortals on the bubble who have gone to Kona have been feasting on the tears of the vanquished not because we were more able but because we were more ready to execute and to do what it took.
some of us say what we say because the truth hurts, but it's tough love. Rereading this thread there are plenty of $400/mo coaching comments from some very smart and helpful people, if you know what to look for.
ericM40-44 wrote:
I probably already said this on page one but I'm too lazy to check.
you're grossly mis-priortizing your training time. you've got it all backwards really. You could probably squeeze by with 25mi per week of running and then allocate that additional time to biking.
we've already discussed your swim at length. it's going to end your day at TX, no doubt.
way more swimming, more biking. less enthusiasm and positivity and some critical thinking as to how you're really going to accomplish this. IM roll downs are littered with the weeping carcasses of guys like you, and further the back half of the marathon at Kona is littered with guys who just *knew* that they were going to go sub-10 at Kona but end up walking to 11:00.
step one: control what you can control.
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