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About Louisville

Do you know well about Louisville? If so, you would be better to skip it 'Cause you're bored...
It's the time for the people who doesn't know about it.

Where?
Louisville is one of city in Kentucky, the mid-west of the US. It's located in north west of Kentucky and not capital city of it, but it's the biggest one.
And it takes about 2 hours by car from Cincinnati, OH. So IM-LOU is the most convenient Ironman for me!
As you know, Kentucky is famous for Kentucky burbon, Kentucky derby, and KFC; Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Churchill Downs, taking place Kentucky Derby is faced on run couse. So you can see it fourth in run. Almost of famous Kentucky berbon distrillery and the house of Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC, are located in around Louisville, so if you can rent a car, you can go there about a couple of hours.
And in downtown of Louisville, there are many nice places as follows.

- Muhammad Ali Center
- Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
- Belle of Louisville, steam riverboat
- Thomas Edison House
- Derby Clock
- Loisville Palace thather
- Thirsty Pedaler, riding bike with deinking burbon!
- 4th street live! finish line of IM Louisville

For more information, visit www.gotolouisville.com

How to fly.
Louisville has an international airport(SDF). There is no direct flight from Japan, but three major airlines has many flights from some American major airports, like Chicago(ORD), Atlanta(ATL), Dallas fort worth(DFW), etc.
But if you bring big bike case, I suggest to choose some middle distance flight from Los Angels(LAX), San Francisco(SFO), etc. Because small plane like Bombardier and Embraer, up to 50 passengers are used for short distance flights. Sometimes they can't carry big luggeage due to their small cargo space and door. So before you book the flight, you would be better to check the plain and choose at least middle size plain, like B737, A320, MD80, etc.
There is no public transportation from airport to downtown without taxi.


恐らく多くの日本人はルイビルなんて聞いたことないと思いますのでチラリと紹介を。ちなみにルイビルって非常に日本語チックな発音で、現地では全く通じません。強引に日本語読みにするなら”ルゥィヴォ”でしょうか?　いまだに一発で通じたことがありません…

どこ？
US中西部(と言っても大陸の東半分ですが)にあるケンタッキー州の都市で州の北西部にあります。州都ではないけど州で一番デカい都市です。ちなみに我がシンシナティから車で2時間なのでIMルイビルは至近のIMです(ゆえにいつも支度がおろそかになるのですが)。次に近いのが新レース、テネシーのチャタヌーガで6時間位、シカゴのあるイリノイ州の隣のウィスコンシンが7時間位でしょうか。
ケンタッキーと言えばケンタッキーバーボン、ケンタッキーダービー、KFCフライドチキンが有名ですが、ダービー開催地はランコース上にあるので都合4回、前を通ります。フォアローゼス、ジムビーム等ほとんどのバーボン蒸留所、KFC創業者カーネルサンダースの家も近いのでレンタカーで行けます。
その他ルイビルのダウンタウンには歩ける範囲でこんな所があり。
-　モハメドアリ　センター
-　ルイビルスラッガー　ミュージアム&ファクトリー、メジャーリーガー御用達バットメーカーの博物館&工場見学。お土産にミニバットもらえる♪
-　ベルオフルイビル、オハイオ川を行く観光蒸気船。ハックルベリーの冒険気分。
-　エジソンの家
-　ダービークロック、仕掛け時計
-　ルイビルパレスシアター、昔ながらの映画館
-　サースティペダラー、バーボン飲みながら足こぎ屋台で市内観光
-　4thストリートライブ、IMルイビルのフィニッシュ、飲み屋街なのでフィニッシュ後すぐ飲みたい人はカードとパスポート持参でラン(USで酒買う時はどんなにジジババでも写真付国際公的身分証明証が必要)

もっと知りたい人は→　 www.gotolouisville.com　(英語)

行き方
郊外に国際空港(SDF)があるけど日本からの直行便は無し。アメリカ3大エアラインがシカゴ、アトランタ、ダラス等のUS主要空港から飛んでます。だけどバイクケース持参ならロス、サンフランシスコ等からの中距離路線をお勧めします。というのも近距離路線はボンバルディア、エンブライアといった50人乗り程度のちっちゃい機体を使ってるので、場合によってはカーゴスペース不足やドアが小さくてケースが載せられない可能性も。チケット取る前に機体をチェックして、B737、A320、MD80等の中型機を選んだ方がいいでしょう。
空港からダウンタウンへはタクシーのみ。シャトルバスがある高級ホテルもあり。

2014 IRONMAN Louisville race recap Vol.3

In T2, I needed many time for not only exchanging bike gear and run gear but also taking a rest to recover from dehydration. T2, bike to run. 0:09:06
T2ではバイクギアとランギアの交換だけでなく脱水から回復する為に休む必要があった。

The run course has two times round trip in downtown of Louisville.

I couldn’t run from beginning by dehydration.

So I repeated jogging to the aid station, taking a rest, putting ice in my run cap in order to cool my head, and jogging to the next aid. But in the first quarter, I couldn’t keep it. So I walked.
After the first lap, we have to turn right in front of finish line for second lap. At that time, it remained 5 hours until the midnight. If I will walk all way to the finish line, there was a possibility I can't complete it! So I tried to jog again.
But in three quarter, my legs couldn't jog anymore. Even if I only walked, my heart rate exceeded 150, so I had to walk all the way.
About 2 hours later, finally I crossed the finish line with national flag of Japan.


Run 42.2km 6:46:59.
It was the longest time in my marathon running. My team mate worked at finish line as a volunteer and waited me. Thanks…

ランコースはルイビルのダウンタウンを2往復。最初から脱水で走れず、エイドまでジョグして止まって休み、キャップに氷を入れて頭を冷やし、次のエイドまでジョグを繰り返す。1周目復路でジョグもしんどくなり歩いた。
1周目を終え、フィニッシュ目前にして右折し2周目に行かねばならない。この時点で24時まであと5時間。残り全部歩くと間に合うか微妙になってきたので再びジョグに挑んだ。
しかし復路を残して、ついにジョグさえできなくなった。歩いているのに心拍は150を超えていたので、復路は全て歩いた。
およそ2時間後、やっと日本国旗とともにフィニッシュラインを越えた。6:46:59は全ての42.2kmの中でワースト。チームの仲間がボランティアとしてフィニッシュで働いて待っていてくれた。ありがとう。

This time, certainly I completed it by 1.5 months training. But I couldn’t do training enough to qualify KONA. I strongly thought we need at least 3 months hard training for each IRONMAN. I have IRONMAN Maryland just 4 weeks later. I expect it will be tough race too for me, but I will do my best.
今回確かに1.5ヶ月の練習で完走はしたが、コナを獲るには不十分だった。最低でも1レースに3か月の追い込み練習は必要だと強く思った。丁度4週後にはIMメリーランドがある。これもしんどいレースになりそうだがベストを尽くしたい。

Fin.

2014 IRONMAN Louisville race recap Vol.2

3. 24th IRONMAN Race Day.

Woke up at 4AM, ate Trader Joe's Japanese fried rice and miso soup for breakfast, and went to transition area at 5:15. Once went back to the hotel to put on the pump and went to the swim start at 6:30. Same as the last year, there was a long waiting line for swim start. Louisville's swim start is not mass start. It's individual time-trial start which dive into Ohio River one by one. So the race becomes naturally time-trial race. After 35 minutes from age group start at 7AM, it was my turn. Dive into light-brown color river. The water temperature was perfect for swimming by speed suit. No wave, no current, and comfortable water temperature; I guess it's the easiest swim course of IRONMAN, except light-brown water... The course has J turn. After the turn, we felt some current from right to left, but it was no problem. We need to climb the stairs at swim finish. The time was not so bad for me. Swim 3.8km, 1:15:02.



4時起床、トレーダージョーズの炒飯と味噌汁を取って5：15トランジションへ。一旦ポンプを置きにホテルに戻り6：30スタートエリアへ。昨年同様スイムスタートは長蛇の列。ルイビルは一斉スタートではなく、一人ずつオハイオ川に飛び込むTTスタート。なので自ずとTTレースになる。7時のAGスタートから35分後、やっと出番。薄茶色の川に飛び込む。水温はスイムスキンで泳ぐには最適。波無し、流れ無し、最適水温と、薄茶色の水を除けばIMでもっとも泳ぎやすいコースだと思う。
Jターンのコースを折り返してからは若干右→左へ流れを感じるが問題ないレベル。スイムフィニッシュは仮設階段を上る。自分的にはさほど悪いタイムではなかった。3.8ｋｍ1：15：02

At T1, I spent many time to wear CEP's compression socks and UV arm cover. They're hard to wear for wet body. I'll change the socks to normal socks and calf guard at IM Maryland. T1, swim to bike, 0:12:35.
T1ではCEPのコンプレッションソックスとUVアームカバーを着けるのに時間がかかった。濡れた体で着るのは難しい。メリーランドでは普通のソックスとカーフガードに変えよう。T1、スイム→バイク0:12:35

The bike course is partially 2 loops. It's almost flat but some tough hills includes it. I tried to keep my pace about 30km/h, following my plans. 1st loop was not so bad, but it was getting hot and humid on the way of 1st loop, so I felt dehydration by degree. Also my tire had air leaking from the screw of valve extender, so I had to have some short stops in order to refill air by cartridge. As a result, my bike rap was delayed about 40minutes from my expected time. 180.2km 6:43:24



バイクコースは部分的に2周回。ほぼ平坦だが幾つかきつい坂がある。当初の予定通り30km/hを維持。1周目はさほど問題なかったが、途中から蒸し暑くなってきたので、徐々に脱水を感じてきた。更にタイヤのバルブエクステンダーからエア漏れも生じた為、途中何度か降りてCO2カートリッジで充填。結果当初の予想より40分近く遅れた。

2014 IRONMAN Louisville race recap Vol.1

1.Before the race.

This year, I had a plan to run IRONMAN Lake Placid and Maryland. But I had an admission by abdominal disease in June and had to stop my training for recovering from disease in June. So I had to transfer my entry fee from Lake Placid to Louisville, because it was too hard for me to complete the training for Lake Placid only one month. The interval between Louisville and Maryland is just 4 week. It's really hard to recover-and-ready for the next race. But there was no choice because all races has already sold out, except Louisville, Maryland, and Lake Tahoe which is held in the same weekend with Maryland.

今年はレイクプラシッドとメリーランドに出る予定だったが、6月にお腹の病気で入院し、回復のため6月一杯練習ができなかった。7月1か月ではレイクプラシッドのための練習が満足にできないと判断し、レイクプラシッドの権利をルイビルにトランスファーせざるを得なかった。ルイビルとメリーランドの間隔は4週間、ルイビルからリカバリーしてメリーランドに向けて再調整するのは至難の業だが、ルイビル、メリーランド、メリーランドと同週末のレイクタホを除き、すべて完売だったため選択肢はなかった。

2.To Louisville.

I had a business trip to Atlanta from Tuesday to Thursday in the race week. So I came back home on Thursday night, re-packing my luggage for Louisville, and went to Louisville on Friday afternoon. And I checked in the hotel, went to the registration and official welcome dinner party. After the party, I started to ready for my race gear for each transition. I felt little bit tiredness and slept in midnight.
In Saturday morning, I got up late for recovering, took breakfast, and went to riverside for swim practice. Ohio river was light-brown as well the last year, but it was good condition to swim by no current and comfortable water temperature. I have never heard there was mandatory wetsuit swim in Louisville.
After that, I ran Underpants run. It's not Ironman event, so everybody can run it, but we need to pay at least $10 for donation. I missed to run two times in Kona, so I was really excited and had already readied white brief only for it! It had 1.5 miles turnaround course on riverside, so it was good for warming up for the race.
After the bike and gear check-in, Louisville was surrounded by thunderstorm.

レース週の火曜～木曜までアトランタ出張、木曜夜に帰宅しルイビルの荷物を梱包、金曜午後にルイビルに出発。ホテルチェックイン後レジストとウエルカムディナーへ。その後レースギアの支度、少し疲れて深夜に寝る。
土曜朝、リカバリーの為遅めに起きて朝食、スイム試泳のためオハイオ川へ。昨年同様薄茶色だが、流れも感じず適温で泳ぐには最適。今までここでウエット必須になったことを聞いたことが無い。
その後アンダーパンツランに参加。アイアンマンとは無関係なので誰でも参加できるが寄付金として最低USD10必要。過去2度Konaで逃してるので待望のイベント、これの為だけに純白のブリーフを用意。川沿いを折り返す1.5マイルのコースでランのアップには丁度よい。
バイクとギア預託後、ルイビルは雷雨につつまれた。

Canceled Toughman and Lake Placid

I'm so sorry to leave my weblog off for a long time. Since the last update, I was terribly busy until the end of September.

After the last log, I felt the pain in my abdominal, so I canceled TOUGHMAN Indiana in the end of May. After that, I had one week admission in the beginning of June in order to take a treatment by catheter. So I had to stop my training until the end of June to cure my wound. Since I understood not to complete my training for Lake Placid with only half month, so I had to cancel IRONMAN Lake Placid which was held in the end of July.

Fortunately from this year, WTC started transfer program for IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 in the US. So I transferred my entry fee of Lake Placid to Louisville which was held in the end of August. In truth, I wanted to transfer to the race is held in the end of season , like Florida, Arizona, and Cozumel. But Florida and Arizona had already sold out, and Cozumel was not available to this transfer program.

So, I'll update the race recap of IRONMAN Louisville.


ブログほったらかしでスンマヘン。9月末までめっちゃ忙しかったとです。
最後のログ以降、腹痛のため5月末のTOUGHMANインディアナをキャンセル、その後その腹痛でカテーテル治療を受けるために6月初めに1週間ほど入院、腹の傷口を治すため6月は練習できず。で半月で7月末のIMレイクプラシッドの練習は無理と判断してレイクプラシッドはキャンセル。

幸い今年からWTCがUSのIM&IM70.3限定で始めたトランスファープログラムがあったので、レイクプラシッドのエントリフィーを8月末のルイビルに移行。(手数料USD50必要)
ホントはフロリダ、アリゾナ、コズメル等のシーズン末のレースに移行したかっけど、フロリダ、アリゾナは既に売り切れ(売り切れだと移行不可)、コズメルはメキシコなので対象外でした…。

てことで次回はルイビル総集編をアップ。

Bike ride with abdominal pain.

5/26(MON)
Bike 131.8km 4:58

In the US, the last monday of May is the national holiday called "Memorial day". So I rode a bike to practice for IRONMAN Lake Placid.
I rode at Indian Hill in the morning. And after the lunch, I went to my regular training course in country side of Loveland.
In total, I rode over 130km, but I couldn't concentrate to ride due to abdominal pain.

The picture is the poster of 5th Flying Pig marathon of 2003.


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Tanaka in Chicago

5/25(SUN) No training in order to go to Chicago.

I went to Chicago with Japanese coworker to see the MLB game, NY Yankees vs Chicago White Sox.
Of course, the reason was to cheer Masa Tanaka, the new comer of Yankees.

WWe started at 630 and arrived at Chicago by 5 hours drive.

In the US, it's the natural to drive around 10 hours. Because domestic flight ticket is very expensive versus Japan and there is no discount ticket in the US.

First, we went to Misoya, new Japanese style ramen shop near Mitsuwa Japanese supermarket, for lunch.

As named, it's a miso ramen shop. So we tried various miso ramen.

Certainly miso was good, but it looked like they doesn't use the source like fish, seaweed, and Tonkotsu.
It managed by Japanese but we were very disappointed. We would better to go Santouka in Mitsuwa...

After that, we went to US Cellular stadium, the home studium of Chicago White Sox.

Of course, almost all of fans were White Sox's...

Tanaka pitched as starter, and we could see not only Tanaka but Ichiro.



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VIP comin'

5/19/2014(MON) No training due to English class.

5/20/2014(TUE)
Run treadmill 8.6km 0:45
Weight training abdominal

I went to Blue Ash YMCA after the work and took running.

5/21/2014(WED)
Swim 0.5km 0:20

I've two tough weeks every year because our company's VIP member comes two times per a year.
And it was the day which they came here!
So I stopped by LA fitness to swim little bit in the early morning, and after that I went to CVG to pick them up.
And of course, I attended their lunch and dinner.
It was the day of starting tough week...

5/23/2014(FRI)
Bike spinning 21km 0:58

I stopped by Blue Ash YMCA for doing spinning before VIP member picked up the hotel.

5/24/2014(SAT) No training

The tough week ended. I dropped VIP member at CVG in the morning. After that, I tried to train but I couldn't do it by the fatigue and abdominal pain.
It was the start of the nightmare...

The picture is the poster of 4th Flying Pig marathon of 2002.


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It's looks like Niagra falls!

5/18/2014(SUN)
Bike 91.5km 3:10
Swim 1800yd 0:45

I rode a bike in the afternoon.
First, I followed routine course which indicated by double white arrow. But I was little bit bored because I went to there almost of all weekend.
So I searched for new course by GPS and found out nice small falls like a Niagra on the way!

But in an other hand, I dropped my saddle bag on the way because the bracket is broken by terrible road vibration.
I picked it up soon and came home with putting it into bottle cage.

And also Di2-shifter too...


Bad things happened in quick succession...

After that, I went to LA fitness to swim.


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