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。