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Lauren Warren and Kona Ironman Championships
Local triathlete Lauren Warren will compete at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii in just about one week.
Warren qualified for triathlon’s premier event when she won her, 50-55, age group in the Maryland Ironman last October.
The annual fall event, October 14 this year, is open only to those who qualified in one of the 40 full-distance Ironman races in 2016 for a total of 2,200 athletes per race
Each of the qualifying races in the series offers a different number of Kona qualification slots, which are then divided up according to the size of their respective age-group.
Warren qualified for Kona a decade ago but with just 6 miles of running left to the finish line collapsed from an Acute Intermittent Porphyria episode. Warren had been fighting the symptoms the through the entire race. It's life-threatening, and it took her down just before the finish.
In the intervening ten years, Warren has continued to compete in many other triathlon events, including finishing 2nd overall female at the Survival of the Shawangunks.
While Warren maintained overall fitness the Ironman Championship training requires two-a-day sessions, sometimes after dark, in the basement, on a treadmill bike trainer or swim trainer.
“A 2:05:00 ride indoors with a 40-minute threshold dancing on the pedals standing the entire time while staring at a wall. It's just a wall- break through it!" Warren says.
A typical night's training goes something like this- after working all day, Warren spends an hour and 45 minutes with an intense 30-minute threshold interval on the bike trainer. After that moving on to the Vasa-swim trainer.
Weather in Kona will be much different- with water temperatures somewhere around 80 and air temps in the low 90s.
Part of training is getting ready for sun, surf, thousands of other competitors, the bike course to Hawi is notoriously windy, and temperature differences.
The first part of training for Ironman is the physical aspect, and a lot of food goes into fueling that much training.Second is the mental aspect to getting up and out, and training day after day, no matter the weather or other obligations. Part of that is being mentally ready for a huge, crowded event.
And for some, like Warren, there is a third aspect to training and competing, the spiritual component. Warren has faith that God put her in this place both as a test of her strength and a testimony of God's blessings. Mixed in with training, pushing herself mentally and physically, her partner in training and life, Tod, and juggling all these things, is gratitude for the opportunity to again be in the Ironman Triathlon World Championships and finish what she started ten years ago- with a vengeance.
Warren qualified for triathlon’s premier event when she won her, 50-55, age group in the Maryland Ironman last October.
The annual fall event, October 14 this year, is open only to those who qualified in one of the 40 full-distance Ironman races in 2016 for a total of 2,200 athletes per race
Each of the qualifying races in the series offers a different number of Kona qualification slots, which are then divided up according to the size of their respective age-group.
Warren qualified for Kona a decade ago but with just 6 miles of running left to the finish line collapsed from an Acute Intermittent Porphyria episode. Warren had been fighting the symptoms the through the entire race. It's life-threatening, and it took her down just before the finish.
In the intervening ten years, Warren has continued to compete in many other triathlon events, including finishing 2nd overall female at the Survival of the Shawangunks.
While Warren maintained overall fitness the Ironman Championship training requires two-a-day sessions, sometimes after dark, in the basement, on a treadmill bike trainer or swim trainer.
“A 2:05:00 ride indoors with a 40-minute threshold dancing on the pedals standing the entire time while staring at a wall. It's just a wall- break through it!" Warren says.
A typical night's training goes something like this- after working all day, Warren spends an hour and 45 minutes with an intense 30-minute threshold interval on the bike trainer. After that moving on to the Vasa-swim trainer.
Weather in Kona will be much different- with water temperatures somewhere around 80 and air temps in the low 90s.
Part of training is getting ready for sun, surf, thousands of other competitors, the bike course to Hawi is notoriously windy, and temperature differences.
The first part of training for Ironman is the physical aspect, and a lot of food goes into fueling that much training.Second is the mental aspect to getting up and out, and training day after day, no matter the weather or other obligations. Part of that is being mentally ready for a huge, crowded event.
And for some, like Warren, there is a third aspect to training and competing, the spiritual component. Warren has faith that God put her in this place both as a test of her strength and a testimony of God's blessings. Mixed in with training, pushing herself mentally and physically, her partner in training and life, Tod, and juggling all these things, is gratitude for the opportunity to again be in the Ironman Triathlon World Championships and finish what she started ten years ago- with a vengeance.
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Originally from: http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/news/articles/2017/03/11-ways-to-get-to-kona.aspx#ixzz4rjW3NXAF 2016.
Originally from: http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/news/articles/2017/03/11-ways-to-get-to-kona.aspx#ixzz4rjW3NXAF 2016.
