Clyde/Athena Tri-N-4- Weight Loss Mentor Group -OPEN AGAIN!! (Page 41)

Originally posted by diablo243

Full recap to come later, but sitting at post race breakfast and thought I would give a quick update. Race went great, couldn't have asked for nicer day, finished in 1:28:32 and that was good for 4th place in the Clyde class. Haven't seen how close I missed third by but I hope it's several minutes and NOT seconds!!! Full recap to come but race 1 done!

Originally posted by ECS49

Recap time, make it short and sweet with the good and the bad and maybe some ugly


Got up @530 didn't forget anything so that was a good start.

Got to the park, got warmed up and got in the water to do some swimming. Lets just say even my warmup wasn't feeling all that hot, signs of things to come.

Swim start: We haven't gotten official splits yet but I bombed this and I bombed it bad. I totally freaked in the water and could never regain my composure. I have been swimming 100's in 1:40 pace, 200's in 345 pace and even taking it easy on some distance swims right around a 2:00 100 pace and this isnt even gonna be close. I floated on my back for the first time ever, I was just having a panic attack plain and simple. Add in swimming off course and its gonna be ugly.

Bummed I finally make it too the beach (like 30 yards away from the beach exit I was so off course) and book it to T1, now I decide I am gonna have to crush everything else and big picture the swim is not very much time. So my T1 was pretty darn quick, again dont know official times but I was hustlin.

Bike: Hill, and lots of them. I have 12 gears and a big body and so its an adventure going up and fun coming down! People that have no business passing me pass me going up though (and I say this in the nicest way LOL) but I was moving really well on the straights and down and my bike ride was solid. I caught at least 3 guys in my division and 1 was right up ahead of me as we excited the bike.

T2- Again I think was pretty solid, minus dorking around with my gps, I got in and out fairly quick.

Run- I dont have the #'s yet, and this course was super hilly with a huge hill right out of transition, but......I smoked the run. My wife was about .25-.5 behind me going into the run and she was running 7:50 miles and she never caught me. I got into a good pace and found a guy to basically pace me and we were movin.

Finish- Grabbed a snack and a water and chilled out. Results as far as fnishers started getting posted, I honestly had no idea where id be as I was feeling so good after the run but felt so bad after the swim.

Turns out, 2nd place! sweet! Got my first ever medal and its pretty darn nice. Overall I am happy, but really need to do something about the swim!

Originally posted by diablo243 Full recap to come later, but sitting at post race breakfast and thought I would give a quick update. Race went great, couldn't have asked for nicer day, finished in 1:28:32 and that was good for 4th place in the Clyde class. Haven't seen how close I missed third by but I hope it's several minutes and NOT seconds!!! Full recap to come but race 1 done!

Originally posted by ECS49 Recap time, make it short and sweet with the good and the bad and maybe some ugly Got up @530 didn't forget anything so that was a good start. Got to the park, got warmed up and got in the water to do some swimming. Lets just say even my warmup wasn't feeling all that hot, signs of things to come. Swim start: We haven't gotten official splits yet but I bombed this and I bombed it bad. I totally freaked in the water and could never regain my composure. I have been swimming 100's in 1:40 pace, 200's in 345 pace and even taking it easy on some distance swims right around a 2:00 100 pace and this isnt even gonna be close. I floated on my back for the first time ever, I was just having a panic attack plain and simple. Add in swimming off course and its gonna be ugly. Bummed I finally make it too the beach (like 30 yards away from the beach exit I was so off course) and book it to T1, now I decide I am gonna have to crush everything else and big picture the swim is not very much time. So my T1 was pretty darn quick, again dont know official times but I was hustlin. Bike: Hill, and lots of them. I have 12 gears and a big body and so its an adventure going up and fun coming down! People that have no business passing me pass me going up though (and I say this in the nicest way LOL) but I was moving really well on the straights and down and my bike ride was solid. I caught at least 3 guys in my division and 1 was right up ahead of me as we excited the bike. T2- Again I think was pretty solid, minus dorking around with my gps, I got in and out fairly quick. Run- I dont have the #'s yet, and this course was super hilly with a huge hill right out of transition, but......I smoked the run. My wife was about .25-.5 behind me going into the run and she was running 7:50 miles and she never caught me. I got into a good pace and found a guy to basically pace me and we were movin. Finish- Grabbed a snack and a water and chilled out. Results as far as fnishers started getting posted, I honestly had no idea where id be as I was feeling so good after the run but felt so bad after the swim. Turns out, 2nd place! sweet! Got my first ever medal and its pretty darn nice. Overall I am happy, but really need to do something about the swim!

Originally posted by ECS49 Ask and shall receive! I realize we don't do these for medals or shirts, but I have to hand it to Get 2 It, the medals are pretty nice and the shirts are actually wearable. Big step up over some of the other thing I have seen. On to the pics

Originally posted by ECS49

Recap time, make it short and sweet with the good and the bad and maybe some ugly


Got up @530 didn't forget anything so that was a good start.

Got to the park, got warmed up and got in the water to do some swimming. Lets just say even my warmup wasn't feeling all that hot, signs of things to come.

Swim start: We haven't gotten official splits yet but I bombed this and I bombed it bad. I totally freaked in the water and could never regain my composure. I have been swimming 100's in 1:40 pace, 200's in 345 pace and even taking it easy on some distance swims right around a 2:00 100 pace and this isnt even gonna be close. I floated on my back for the first time ever, I was just having a panic attack plain and simple. Add in swimming off course and its gonna be ugly.

Bummed I finally make it too the beach (like 30 yards away from the beach exit I was so off course) and book it to T1, now I decide I am gonna have to crush everything else and big picture the swim is not very much time. So my T1 was pretty darn quick, again dont know official times but I was hustlin.

Bike: Hill, and lots of them. I have 12 gears and a big body and so its an adventure going up and fun coming down! People that have no business passing me pass me going up though (and I say this in the nicest way LOL) but I was moving really well on the straights and down and my bike ride was solid. I caught at least 3 guys in my division and 1 was right up ahead of me as we excited the bike.

T2- Again I think was pretty solid, minus dorking around with my gps, I got in and out fairly quick.

Run- I dont have the #'s yet, and this course was super hilly with a huge hill right out of transition, but......I smoked the run. My wife was about .25-.5 behind me going into the run and she was running 7:50 miles and she never caught me. I got into a good pace and found a guy to basically pace me and we were movin.

Finish- Grabbed a snack and a water and chilled out. Results as far as fnishers started getting posted, I honestly had no idea where id be as I was feeling so good after the run but felt so bad after the swim.

Turns out, 2nd place! sweet! Got my first ever medal and its pretty darn nice. Overall I am happy, but really need to do something about the swim!

Originally posted by CincyMom

Hey! I was there too! Congratulations on the medal!!

I finished the Oly DFL but I did finish my first ever Oly, so I'm ok with that. I forgot how horrible some of those hills are!! I think I'm the only Athena that did the Oly today, so I may have qualified for a medal too but I didn't stick around to get it. Although I think they should have a medal all its own for DFL. I even had a police escort on the last half of my run

Good times

Originally posted by CincyMom Hey! I was there too! Congratulations on the medal!! I finished the Oly DFL but I did finish my first ever Oly, so I'm ok with that. I forgot how horrible some of those hills are!! I think I'm the only Athena that did the Oly today, so I may have qualified for a medal too but I didn't stick around to get it. Although I think they should have a medal all its own for DFL. I even had a police escort on the last half of my run Good times

Originally posted by WebFootFreak

As of 11:15PM Central, I am officially entered in the RiverBluff Tri in Nashville(ish), TN on Sept 6th.

Since I have a wonky week, training will step up on Monday.

Originally posted by ECS49 So I was just randomly browsing the internet and ran into this thread http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Fo... I never realized that little guys got their panties all in a bunch about this, my first bitter thought as an ex college wrestler was if weight doesn't matter in competition I wonder how theyd like to go a match For me the end of the day is I use it as training motivation, I know I am never going to compete with a guy thats 150 lbs. We have body weight requirement in wrestling called hydration testing which tells the wrestlers what weight they are allowed to get down to and still be healthy. My lowest healthy weight was around 225, some people are going to have big frames and large bone density. Not sure why some would have any issue with that?