Ironman 70.3 New Orleans : Official Thread (Page 6)

Just cancelled my hotel and my two days vacation......I had to put myself out of misery! I then turned around and signed up for 70.3 Muncie.........then remembered we are running peachtree 10k 2 days before.....wife reminded me after the fact.....its going to be a long week for our family!

to Atlrnr......I am sure that you and otheres that have completed a HIM arent as upset as someone like me who has yet to complete one....puts months of training in to complete one....just to have it lessened or cancelled by weather. I consider spending 250$ and travel fees for a glorified duathlon a waste of money....thats all I was saying.

No matter what I am in. Hotel is pre-paid and non-refundable, my mother in law is here from CA to help hubby take care of the kids while I am gone, my best friend took time off work to sherpa me for the race, so with all this, it would be kinda rude to back out.

I am also registered for Muncie 70.3 and Augusta 70.3, so if this race is funky I still have 2 more chances.

Funny thing is, I was planning on Orlando 70.3, I made a last minute decision when I had the $$ to do this race instead of Orlando....

Yay! I will see you at Muncie then! I will be the guy that fits the "one of these things doesn't belong" theme.......

I so wanted to do Augusta, but I got into the NYC Marathon and have deferred 2 times and this is my last chance.....sooooooo.....Muncie it is.

Keep us posted on what goes on down in NOLA this weekend....you can be our site correspondent for those of us who bailed.

Good luck..........btw......is every hotel in muncie booked or what?????

I did Muncie last year as my first HIM, great race! Loved it so much I wanted to do it again. All the hotels in Muncie are booked, there are not that many. You can try to book in Anderson 20 minutes away. My best friend who lives with me here is GA is from Muncie so we just stay with her parents. It small town midwest, nothing to do, but we have a great time post race at Buffalo Wild Wings!

I have changed my mind.....I will wait and see what they tell us (they just sent a mass email promising info in 24 hours). I live 5.5 hours away.....I can leave Sat morning and make it if it looks promising......

this sucks

I got a promising email from a meteorologist that has hourly weather details for Sunday.  The winds are 11 mph all through Saturday night until 8am when it increases to 13 mph.  It then picks up to 19 mph by 11 am.  I'm hoping that there is a window to set the buoys and get our swim in before the wind picks up too much. See chart below, not sure if this will post correctly..  I'll get another update tomorrow mid-day and post it again.

 Sunday   04/22/12

Good idea, lets just see what happens

Thanks for this, it looks promising

Latest weather says 77 and winds at 10mph!  Promising.  Either way played golf today and am concentrating on running the packet pickup for a local 5k (LA Skeeter Run) so whatever happens I will deal with it on Saturday.

Later all!

Weather.com

http://www.weather.com/weather/5-day/New+Orleans+LA+USLA0338

70.3 New Orleans Course Updates:  http://ironmanneworleans.com/2012/04/course-updates-please-read/

The wind forecast is actually getting worse and not better.  I'm most likely bailing out.  I'll wait a few hours to make a final decision but a forecast getting worse the closer we actually get to the race is not a good thing.

Here's the latest National Weather Service advisory: http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=LAZ062&warnc...

Edited by GMAN 19030 2012-04-20  8:13 AM