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2012-11-15 8:13 AM

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Subject: Newbie to Ironman FL 2013

I'm not sure if I qualify for a newbie any more.  Last March I couldn't swim freestyle and had never ridden a road bike or Tri bike.  Between March and Sept. I worked my way up from easy Sprint to very difficult sprint to Oly distance in the Nations Tri.  Next November I am competing in the Ironman FL.

I setup a twitter account @IronmanFL2013 to exachange training tips and track the training journey leading up to the event.

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2012-11-15 12:19 PM
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Congrats Shane.  I hope to volunteer at IMFL again this year.  Swimming is my problem too.  What/how are you doing to swim 2.4 miles in the gulf?
2012-11-19 2:29 PM
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Subject: RE: Newbie to Ironman FL 2013

My problem with the swim is not the distance but my lack of experience in open water events, which was only 2 last season.  My plan for the IM FL swim training is to enter 3 or 4 sprints and/or olys next summer with open swims.  There is one sprint in VA Beach(Sandman Tri) with 1K ocean swim that I'm hoping to give me a scaled down sample of what swimming in the Gulf will be like. 

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