Another "am I ready" thread...

I am only going by descriptions of the course.... can you start hill training?  like now?  like 5,000 feet in 50 miles (try to hit 1K feet per 10 miles, I'd say)?  and hilly runs?  If you can train on the right terrain then yeah, you've got plenty of time.  But you'll have to be getting at it.  The THree Sisters can be very spiteful.....

I'm jealous, supposed to be a great race

And who cares if you're DFL?  (i know, easy for me to say )

If you can't get in that kind of training, I say skip it, but you're stil going to have to do a ton of hills for Wildflower.

You say you have four months (20 weeks) to get ready?  You can already ride the distance, you say you already can swim the distance (it's pretty much the same as the Oly).  You've already done the run distance.   only question at this point is stringing them together.    You can do this!

20 weeks to train sounds like enough (based on my VERY limited experience)  but if you're not used to hills and there are hills, I'd suggest you get on them!

The hills ate my lunch at Buffalo Springs HIM - mostly on the run and mostly on the downhill, believe it or not.  So my 2 cents worth is be sure you include running downhill as well as uphill in your training.  Good Luck. 

PS if your training is not progressing you can always DNS.

Coming from someone who did the Silverman half last year..  here is part of my story.. 

Never did any triathlon at all!!  Not even a sprint and signed up for Silverman half.  Started to train in about late June.  First swim was only 25 meters and had to stop.  Did a total of about 300 yards, 25 at a time.  My first run was about 1/8 mile and had to walk.  First bike ride was at Lake Mead and did the station to station which is about 23 miles or so and was beat.  At the time, I was about 265lbs...

I swam about two days a week, rode my bike on saturday mornings and ran maybe three days a week, 3-4 miles at a time with plenty of walking.  From the sounds of it, you have a good base..  We currently have:

109 days 14 hours 22 minutes and 58 seconds till Silverman 08*.  I am signed up for the full this year. 

You have plenty of time to train, and YES you should do the race.  It is awesome.  Frank (RD) puts on a GREAT race.  Tons of volunteers, food, support, etc.  You wont find a better race.  PM me if you want to chat some more

Jeff

Froglegs, are you in?  Silverman is awesome...  106 days to go.  Join a spinning class, it will help.  I train on the race course weekly..  There are some hills, but then you get that same hill as a nice downhill on the way home... 

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Doesn't everyone think we're insane?  

Put down beer...... wait, what?