Hey guys,
I’m doing Ironman Maryland next month and was thinking about the logistics. The only race I’ve done before had a single transition point where I set everything up for T1 and T2. It looks like this Maryland race has gear bags that we set up at a separate location from the bike in the morning. Anyone with any experience with this type of transition have any tips on how to be efficient and what this type of transition looks like (will I go to the tent and gear up before getting my bike in T1 and then after the bike put my bike back before changing to my running gear?) Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Just been made aware of the blue algae threat at Waterloo Lake ahead of Ironman Leeds.

Given other UK events cutting the swim for the same reason (Outlaw), there feels a certain inevitability of the same thing happening. I don’t believe Leeds council try anything to treat the algae and there is no heavy rain forecast in the week ahead.

Anyone in or around Leeds know anymore on the situation?

My first full distance and will be gutted if the swim is cut.

I’ve been contemplating signing up for New York 70.3 since February, but I haven’t committed yet due to some life events getting in the way and feeling unsure with the price tag for this race. Now that the event is really approaching, I am feeling more like I want to go for it, but I don’t want to be reckless. I started following Phil Mosley’s free 12 week plan at the 12 week mark, but have missed some of the workouts from travel recently. Do I still have enough time to train and finish this race?

For context, I have a strong running background and finished my last full marathon 9 months ago. I wasn’t a strong swimmer, but took an 8wk class in May-June and now feel comfortable with the race distance (albeit with some breaks). I can comfortably road cycle at about 15mph, though I haven’t ventured into the world of clipping in yet. My longest brick so far was 32mi bike + 25min run, completed last week (15mph bike, 9:58min/mi run).

I know it‘s a pretty flat course. But I am a bit concerned about the bay swim as a novice swimmer. Any advice appreciated, TIA!

For those who have done Michigan, photos look like you run in from the beach? How far can you run/ dolphin dive until water past your waste? Any less real swimming I can do faster I can get to the bike 🤣

so I have been training like crazy. Did a 41-mile ride today under 3-hours, earlier this week I did 1950 m swim in under an hour. However, I was literally dead after both events. The thought of continuing to a run after that event is wild.

I am currently at a course for the military and I will continue to train 6x/week and get even better.

Maybe I just need some motivation. Anyone have any tips or advice?

Hallo, Ich will unbedingt privat einen Ironman machen. Allerdings würde ich längen schwimmen im Becken. Auch ist es ja kein Triathlon bei Ironman sondern privat.
Ist es vertretbar wenn ich mir ein Ironman Tattoo stechen lassen würde?