Tri/tbay group - CLOSED

Hi Justin, glad to have you on board. I have a 19 yr. old in college who also competes. No organized team at her school, so she kind of has to be accountable to me on her training. She has one of my trainers set up in her dorm room. Look forward to sharing with you in the coming months.

Welcome Andrew, glad to have you on board. Looks like you definitely have some goals in mind.

I'd like to join your group if you have room.  I am 49 (almost 50) and I am training for my first tri.  I was signed up for one, but I was the parent in charge that weekend and took my boy to a water polo tournament.  Then I was signed up for another sprint tri and it was pouring rain, and my son said we couldn't ride in the rain because it would be too dangerous and we could fall.....and I already have a few times (scars to prove it).....so now I am hoping the third times a charm and I am signed up for a tri in Feb.....

I have 3 kids - boy 12, boy 17, girl  19.......

Now I am taking time for myself.

I am married and have a very supportive husband (or else we wouldn't be married)...and he has done tris....he is just getting over clots in his lungs and is training for a 70.3.  He also mountain bikes.  I am a pure novice who is just enjoying exercising and liking a reason to do it.  I am also a master gardener and a master composter.


Let me know what I should do now....thanks.

Good Morning to you all, and I want to welcome Justin, Andrew, David, Bj, GardenPedal, Tom and Herve to the group. It looks like a good mix ages, goals and ambitions. To David and Tom, thank you for your service to our country. And Andrew and Herve are our international friends in the group. I'll keep the group open for a little longer, I will close it out some time today. As I stated in my introduction sharing some knowledge with others who are getting into the sport is exciting and over the months we will all begin to feel like we know one another even if it is cyberspace. One note last year one of the groups members and I discovered we went to the same college(Kansas State) and grew up about 15 miles apart down by Wichita. So I'm sure somewhere within the group will be something in common amongst us outside of the sport of triathlon.

Most everyone has a goal distance in mind, from sprints to IM so I'm sure we'll have some good information to share. The jumps in training from Sprints>Olympic>Halfs>IM all fit nicely once you get adapted to the training time required for each distance and it won't seem so hard to achieve.

If you have any questions lets get started, we can add one another into your friends group, thay way we can see each others logs. I want to encourage you to use the logs for your training, its a great tool for being accountable to the work you have planned, and you can make notes on how things are going.

So once again glad to have you all in the group.

Welcome Alice Andrew and Debra, glad to have you in the group. This will officially close the tri/tbay group. We have a group  of 10 which should bring on some great conversation and information sharing. I'm looking forward to this years mentor group and I'm excited for all of the group the begin a great new journey, and for some of you a continuance of what is already started.

Sorry Sarah I missed you, you are in the group. Glad to have you.

Roy

Good Morning to the Tri/tbay group on this last day of 2009. And I'll start by wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!, Andrew R, Herve and Sarah are a little closer to New Years than the rest of us, so enjoy the evening if your out and about but be careful.

I'll share a bit more about me with you all, I'm 51 by profession a golf course superintendent in central Florida, about an our from Tampa/Orlando. I'm also a swim coach with an age group team, this is an area that is a real struggle for many starting triathletes, and I always look forward to helping those gain in confidence. I'm pretty much a realist when it comes to facets of life, I always see things in a positive way and try to look past/through the negatives. My teenage daughter I mentioned is also a college student in her freshman year, so for the younger ones in the group defintely something for me to relate to. So in my comments to you all I'll always try my best to be encouraging, uplifting and hopefully keep you going.

It looks like everyone is/has been athletic, most have competed in a primary sport in their past or currently. This is good, for the swimmers, you will always be a swimmer and will not struggle. I may seem like its been forever since you had to swim for time, but you'll get it back pretty quickly. For those that have been runners, like the swimmers it will be natural and in many ways it gives you an advantage at the end of events when people are fading, your natural muscle memory will be there and you'll be in a great place. Alice, you stated your are having a hard time slowing down to build base, and it is true it will be hard to keep your pace well below what you can go. It is something you are going to have to learn to do, but it can be done, and we'll get it done. But the great thing about the sport, is that it has natural equalizers from the 3 disciplines, normally everyone will have strength and a weakness.

The mentor forum will be running until the spring, that is usually enough time to get most ready or through their first events depending on where you live. Last year some of the group continued to communicate until much later in the year and thats great to.

I'd like to have everyone at least check in, so I can make sure that everyone is still with us. We've got 11 in the group and I'm ready to go.

Have a great day!!!! 

Hello everyone,

Just got done watching the fireworks on TV in downtown Dallas and couldn't help to think what a great year it's going to be.  Roy, just a FYI my wife is a K-State alum and she lived just outside of Wichita in Haven.  I did the Salty Dog sprint in Hutchinson last year.

I look forward to learning from everyone this year and communicating back and forth. 

It never get any easier, just faster
Bj

Happy New Year to everyone, kind of been veging out on the bowl games today. Most everyone has checked and given some information that is useful to get started with our info for the upcoming season.

Debra on Monday, I have it on my computer at work I'm going to share some of my thoughts with the group about triathlons and one of the main topics is TIME. So I'll put more into that on Monday. It's good though that you can see this is going to be an important element of everyones training schedules.

Alice, if you don't have any other resources Total Immersion can get you started. Although I'm kind of neutral about TI it can be helpful. But if you have anything specific that I could help you with please ask.

Bj, since you did Kansas last year I was guessing you probably lived somewhere near there or did at some time. I'm grew up in Andover.

Justin, flip turns for triathlon swimming is very optional. If you can do them and it's not altering the swim then go ahead and do them, but if not its not a big deal. Remember there are no flip turns in an open water swim.

As I mentioned to Debra, on Monday I'll share some of my thoughts in a few areas that i feel are important and hopefully helpful towards a sucessful season.

Keep the posts coming about how your training went over the weekend if you had any planned, or if your simply preparing to start your training for the upcoming season. I would like to get a feel for events that you are planning on doing and when they are, it will be helpful in assisting you all in the early season base training period.

Talk to you soon.