The only easy Ironman is the one your buddy did.
I love it! 
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Part I - Answer - Any Ironman you can get into. The first hurdle is signing up for an IM race. All of the North American races for 2003 are full.
Part II - Hawaii - Well, at least on paper. It has a relatively flat run course, a moderately rolling bike course that will allow you to adjust your back, and a beautiful swim. In reality, paper lies! Weather conditions make this a race against the island and yourself. The two times I’ve had the opportunity to do this course, it beat me up. As for the other courses, I love Lake Placid, but the uphill on the back half of the bike, can ruin your legs for the run. Florida is flat, but locks up your back. California was good, but now its only a half. Couer d’ Alene will be tougher than people think. (No experience with Wisconsin)
No course is so hard you can’t complete it but, you have to be well prepared no matter what course it is.
Good Luck!
Arizona if you can stand the foul swim in Lake Tempe
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This thread is 12 years old. I’m guessing he picked one by now.
This must be the week of bringing back dead threads.
You can’t reopen a dead thread around here without seeing a Tom Demerly post.
If your looking for an “easy day” Placid is a bad place to start.
Define what an easier race is to you and your wife, you looking for a flat bike/run course, do you want to swim in lake/ocean, wetsuit legal non wetsuit legal? Does heat or humidity have a bad effect on you and your wife?
Answer those questions. But Florida is as someone said is a little easier because it’s flat…
My bad this thread is 12 years old lol
Arizona if you can stand the foul swim in Lake Tempe
I’m not sure that Arizona even existed back in 2002.
You can’t reopen a dead thread around here without seeing a Tom Demerly post.
I wonder if he gets reply emails when people respond to him years after he’s logged off of ST.
according to this graph the top 3 easiest are austria, regensburg, and west austrailia.
http://www.runtri.com/2010/07/runtri-benchmarks-easiest-ironman.html
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Should have told the OP to train for 12 years and then sign up for Tahoe. Not the easiest course, but easiest to get into. But with over a decade to prepare, they should both be ready!
lake placid is an awesome experience, especially if it’s close (no flights etc to deal with). that said, any ironman will be difficult. if you think you could finish IMFL but not IMLP (especially with a year+ out) you’re setting yourself up for a brutal day no matter what course.
Tahoe actually is the easiest course, because no one grasps what good and bad times there are for age groupers. So you can loaf on the bike, have a picnic in T2, and then walk the marathon, because 14 hours sounds pretty much the same as 12 hours.
Easiest for what? Easiest to finish decently in your age group if the cold/altitude/climbing don’t bother you, sure. Easiest to finish before midnight if that is a concern? Maybe not.
Easiest to go sub-10 hours? Definitely not.
Most people who got DNF’d last year got pulled from the bike course. My wife had to bust it the last few miles into Squaw to not get pulled, but had plenty of time to do the run.
You can’t reopen a dead thread around here without seeing a Tom Demerly post.
Whatever happened to him, anyway? I spent a bit of time away from here and he just disappeared.
Not sure about now. He closed his shop in MI and moved to AZ to work
for a triathlon shop there. I don’t think he’s doing that anymore though.
I think he went to Felt after that
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He did move from Tri-Sports to Felt and was posting on Beginner Triathlete for a brief time frame and then was “gone”.
Beach2Battleship may be just what a novice is looking for.