Here’s a video I shot last Friday at the Ironman Check-In…it was actually pretty seamless…they have this perfected! Full race report coming this weekend!

I promise that I’m going to get around to typing my race report, just haven’t had time yet. In the mean time, here’s some cool stats from Slowtwitch.com Luke Powell Bib # 1255 Overall Place: 661 Gender Place: 559  (yes, I was “chicked” by 102 females…including pros) Division Place: 112 Total time: 12:08:39 SWIM Time: […]

Official 2011 Ironman Louisville race results: 2.4 mile swim 1:12:23 (1:54/100m pace) 137th out of 366 in my age group828th out of 2439 overall T1 – 6:42 112 mile bike 6:08:01 (18.26 mph) 142nd out of 366 in my age group851st out of 2439 overall T2 – 11:25 26.2 mile run 4:30:08 (10:18 min/mile pace) […]

“Ultimately, triathlon is about pain. Enduring it, knowing when it will come, and persisting through it. No matter how much you love being a triathlete, at some point a race is going to really, really suck. You don’t play triathlon. You play soccer, it fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that can leave you […]

Basically every piece of triathlon gear that I own is in one of these five bags:

I started my Ironman specific training program way back on December 20, 2010. That was 250 days ago. It’s been quite a journey. I suffered a Grade 3 ankle sprain less than a week into my training. I healed up from that and felt great during the long, hard training sessions this summer. The long […]

Living here in Louisville gives me the advantage of getting familiar with the course over the last year years of training. I’ve been able to spend lots of time in the river, on the bike course and I’ve actually run the majority of the marathon route several times over the last 10-12 years….so yeah, it’s […]

Yesterday I took a look at the professional men that will be racing here in The ‘Ville on Sunday. Today I’ll give a quick overview of the pro women’s field. As of today, there are 14 Pro Women racing. Seven of these ladies have experience with this race, including 2009 winner Nina Kraft (pictured to […]

The big race is now less than a week away. I’m going to try and make a post every day this week leading up to Sunday’s Ironman Louisville. Today I’m going to take a quick look at the professionals that will be joining us amateurs out on the course this year. While this list is […]

It’s no secret that Ironman Louisville is one of the toughest races on the planet. I went into some details as to why on this previous post. The weather plays a large factor in the difficulty of completing the race. Here’s what the weather has been like for the first four years of IMLOU: 2007 […]