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Registration Confirmation for: 2013 IRONMAN Lake Placid Dear Lani, Congratulations! You are now registered for 2013 IRONMAN Lake Placid. Please check the event's official website for updates: http://ironmanlakeplacid.com 2013 IRONMAN Lake Placid Please notify lakeplacid@ironman.com immediately if your information changes. Check out www.ironmanstore.com for all of your race gear and Ironman apparel needs. Use coupon code ?Ironman2013? for $5 off your purchase of $50 or more. Speed for Rent! With cutting edge technology from ZIPP, TBT Race Wheels offers you a chance to ramp up your race day game. Rent the latest ZIPP race wheels at a fraction of the retail cost, with the convenience of in-expo pickup, drop-off and support at all North American IRONMAN and select IRONMAN 70.3 events. Visit www.tbtracewheels.com for full details on the rental fleet and to reserve your race wheels today! Thank you and good luck! IRONMAN Athlete Services lakeplacid@ironman.com

Registration Details Confirmation #: 64800840-072312132939 Date & Time: 07/28/13 Location: Mirror Lake (Map) Purchased at: 07/23/12 Category: General Entry Name: Lani Ralston Triathlon Articles How to be a Faster Triathlete View more articles » Triathlon Resources Active Experts Training & Fitness Calculators Discuss in the Triathlon Community Training Plans Free Training Log View more training plans »

That's my foot after 10 miles in this heat! Hardcore running!


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Tired

Something must be wrong. So tired. Weight dropping too fast. Got to keep an eye on this.

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Back in business!

Scottish Rite 5k! Wicked hilly course. 2nd female overall!!!!

Yay! DNF no more! 

Friends who raced with me: Rose, Jeanette, Amanda.

In exactly 365 days to the hour I plan to be past the finish line in the Olympic oval, ironman lake placid 2012. To that end, swim lessons continue, awaiting my bike, run training in high gear, adding in a strength routine next week, and signed up to have a coach review my training logs at beginner triathlete.  

Game on!


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Bouncing Back

Well a year ago, someone at work told me that I would not find out how right away, but that my life was going to change somehow because of my Ironman Lake Placid finish.  I can't say much changed in my life over the 2011-2012 training season.  I began to think of myself as a real bad ass iron distance triathlete but that's about it.

Fast forward one year and a DNF later, and strangely I think I am a better person for the DNF than for the medal.  Odd I know.  I need a little more time to process this all before I go public with the news that I am a 2013 entrant. 

The few people that do know however have commented that it is more inspiring to see me bounce right back than to finish last year.  I also feel more humble, and am striving for a more balanced approach to all of this.  I think I feel and look more at peace depsite another year's enormous task ahead. 

As above, I need a little more time to process this all for myself.  I am still not sleeping at night.  I am OK till the lights go out, but when they do my mind is wide awake with the vision of my chain getting stuck in the crank out in Wilmington and three little letters: D...N....F....

Is it a great idea to enter another race a mere 6 days out from an Ironman start???  Probably not, but I entered a the Scottish Rite Freemason 5K on Saturday. I am hoping a halfway decent race helps erase my insomnia.

Two other things I have done- I set up my bike trainer on the absolutely highest resistance. For the next 1 year and 1 day I will grind out those intervals until I am in tears, going at 4 mph and feeling exactly as if I am in Wilmington. Next year I will own that stretch of road and I will be on a bike that will not break down. The other thing is that I have reviewed my second swim video.  I see what the coach is talking about-  I am like a windmill, constantly churning up the water and wasting a lot of energy pushing down.  My stroke is not fluid and efficient like Mr. Phelps.I'm working on straightening this out. Next year, I am going 1:30 or better in Mirror Lake. 

Here's the link to me churning away in the pool. It's mad exercise, but not not very fast or efficient in this manner.

www.http://youtu.be/lxT7tqGe86l

Also note that although I did not finish the race, I still got to take home the nice Ironman Tan!

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Redo

Ok. Up all night with thoughts of my DNF. But time to move on. I had a good day. I met Mom @ Starbucks, she gave me a beautiful bracelet which is inscribed with the words Believe in Yourself. We went over to he bike shop to check out mg bike which is still being built. I dropped off my DNF bike there, they will take off some of my better upgraded components and put them on the new bike. Then I met with Cathy, a swim coach in Long Meadow, Ma. Who gave me some insight as to the chain of events that ultimately ended in my chain failure and ended my race. On a more personal note, I used some of my time today to clean, get organized, and talk to my husband about straightening out the issues between us. So now I'm going for a run (zone 1 only) because I guess Project Redo is on!

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