Interesting. I’m on the same trajectory for IM Copenhagen. My weekday rides have adapted to mirror yours, I was ok with it as it seems to be just endurance work as opposed to any intensity which I’ve had for the last few weeks and have more coming up. So more volume, less intensity for the recovery week. My weekend is completely different to yours though, suggested a 30min ride on Saturday and 2 hours Sunday. Both endurance rides. Going to knock out a century with my training partners anyway though. My swims have dropped in volume for this week and I’ve dropped a run too.
Good luck this weekend to those doing 70.3 Ohio
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Thanks, @JoeX ! Up here now and looking forward to Sunday for Lake Placid!
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Thanks Joe! Let’s go get it!
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Thanks @JoeX! I’m ready to smash!
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Couldn’t help myself, so:
Maybe not the smartest thing to sign up for a 70.3 halfway through my 70.3 training plan but I’m feeling pretty good and I’m impatient to race again. Treating this as a B race so no taper, but at least it’s at the end of a recovery week, we’ll see how it goes.
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Good luck and hope you do well!!
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I managed to loose control of my keyboard and credit card when i found out that local Olympic distance (70.3 prep) could upgrade to 70.3 I survived with adjusted expectations. You’ll be fine. good luck
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I’ve been wondering about Weymouth 70.3. I was booking the train and got thinking about what the pre- race day process is for the IM branded races. Until now it’s been simple, sign on, then everything is contained in your transition bag. What’s this about a ‘changing tent’? at registration, there’s a lot of mentions of coloured kit bags. This all seems alien to me outside the Ironman brand. Are we given a ruc sack or something?
Sorry to be a bit numpty
It’s all in the athletes guide, worth reading twice.
But also:
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So a thing that I’ve been doing lately is that I created a 56-mile segment in Strava, and every Sunday I use my long ride to practice race pacing, gear, nutrition, etc. on it, and it’s a handy way to track improvements. I did it today at about 0.77 IF followed by a 30-minute brick run, and it’s helped me build confidence that I can do this, more than anything else.
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I used to live in Dallas and moved to Bend in Central Oregon 4 yrs ago.
I can confirm it is an endurance athlete (and activities in nature ) paradise year round.
The athletes guide hasn’t been released yet, that explains it. thanks for the link.
does anyone have an old one to get a gist of what will be in it?
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Thanks @JoeX ! Hope everyone had great races over the weekend. Just missed my goal of sub-5 at Ohio 70.3 with a 5:02, but still very pleased. Especially proud of the 2:19 bike split, though I overplayed my hand and suffered intense leg muscle cramps throughout the run (or more like shuffle in my case). Had a great time at my first branded Ironman event (have done half and full distance in the past, but grassroots local events). Taking the next year off triathlon to focus on my young family, but I’ll keep relatively fit, maybe do some cycling events, and come back to tris in the future. Happy training and racing, everyone.
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Haven’t seen a changing tent at a that I have done 70.3 but maybe some have them.
The colored bags are irrelevant for most 70.3s as well. You generally only run into when the bike is a point A to B not a loop putting you back to the same transition for the run. Since at most races transition closes before the swim starts you can’t leave all your misc morning stuff you’ll be in for an hour+ before start in transition. So there is usually a clear bag you can put that stuff in if you don’t have someone there to leave your stuff with. After the race there will be a place to show your wrist band and get your bag back. They put extra number stickers in the registration packet to stick on the bag but doesn’t hurt to write your name and number (phone and race) on it several times in marker.
Then if transition 1 is not the same as transition 2 after the swim you’d put all your swim stuff in the “bike” bag. After everyone leaves transition they come through and collect all those bringing them to the finish line. When you bike to transition 2 you’d have your run bag either at your transition spot (in a 70.3) or someone getting it for as you come into transition (more a 140.6 thing).
The bags are blue and red and even though my last race was a 2 transition race so I just used them cannot for the life of me remember which is which. But they say what they are for on them. Also extra race numbers to stick on these bags, if you use them write it again in sharpie with your name and contact info if you want.
Since it looks like Weymouth is the same transition for both then the colored bags are mostly irrelevant.
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Anyone use fullgaz to scope out the courses?
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I’ve wanted to try that for a while but they don’t have any of the races I’m doing. They have the full-distance Arizona and the half-distance Coeur d’Alene courses, and I’m doing the half-distance Arizona and the full-distance Coeur d’Alene 
Just an FYI - CDA full is two loops of the half - so you can at least get a feel for a loop
I do not know for Arizona if they make changes between the full and half
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Ah, thanks. I knew the AZ courses are entirely different, but I hadn’t checked CDA.
Doh! Sometimes the old one is on the Ironman site for a while, if you look at a different event I’d select something in the same country - they tend not to vary so much in country.
There is the potential for a lot of faff. The main thing is:
- bike stuff in the blue bag,
- run stuff in the red bag.
This is always true, get this basic thing right and you can still finish the race. The rest is essentially making your life easier but not critical. Get it wrong and you could be scuppered 
When you come out of the swim into T1 you will likely only have access to the blue bag. If your helmet isn’t in here, you aren’t leaving T1 and your day is over. When you finally get off the bike, the first thing you think is “I’m never going to ride that sodding thing again.” The second thing you think is “Did I put my shoes in the red bag?”.
The blue, red and white bags look like this, the rucksack will not look like this (it’s a long running theme that this years bag is always not as good as last year’s bag):
