Am I crazy for thinking about it? I’m signed up for IMAZ next April and am seriously considering trying to sign up for Wisconsin on Monday. Am I nuts? I figure it’s about the same as doing IMAZ or CDA and then IMH the same year. I’m not in contention for IMH when I do IMAZ so I though it might be fun to do Wisconsin as well. It sounds like a fun race and interesting bike course.
Yes, you are nuts, but that being said go ahead and sign up. No big deal, plenty of time between them.
I did it last year and the spacing works out pretty well but you will not have too much of a luxury recovery/time off after IMAZ before you have to start getting back into it. This year I did IMAZ and IMLou and am doing that again next year, i like the early spring/late fall combo if nothing else it gives me nice low key recovery training periods in early May as it starts getting warm in Chicago and in late fall just in time for football season.
Yeah, I’m kind of digging the idea because it will give me a serious late season goal. I figure I’ll take about a month of easy stuff after Arizona and then get back into serious training for Wisconsin.
A friend of mine did Arizona and Wisconsin last year. He came through it okay, but suffered a bit of late season burnout. That’s a lot of training to do two ironman races in one year. Be sure you’re up for the committment.