A Closeted Triathlete!

Yay for you for making such incredible life changes! Although it must be pretty hard to train in the closet. I couldn't resist.

Doing three sports is incredibly addictive, and the people who tri are incredibly encouraging. Take advantage of BT, log your workouts and ask questions on the forum. It's a great community! 

Welcome to BT and I loved your intro!

My wife and I are training together so I know what its like to train around kids.  We have a doodlebug to tow behind our bikes and they cheer us on occassionaly on a ride.  My whole family knows, but my wife hasn't told her brothers and their families yet (her mom knows).  Not sure why, but thats what she chose.  They'll find out in a few weeks when they visit and we have a brick scheduled during their stay. 

Adoption is also cool!  We're both adopted, so its great to hear others that adopt kids.  Most adoptees turn our normal (my wife and I being the exception ).

Oh.. and this will shed pounds quick.  I'm in a HR based training program and its falling off fast.  About a pound a week for me so far (down from 194-179).

Congratulations on your new venture.

I know the feeling of wanting to keep goals to yourself.  I feel that way about some things.

When it came to my triathlon training, I found that it was helpful to tell some people what my goal was.  It gave me even greater commitment, because then I had to put my money where my mouth was, so to speak.  On that note, it also helped me to sign up early for my first tri - long before I was even close to ready - just so I'd have that commitment to make the goal more real.

I actually found that most people were very encouraging and many actually expected more of me than I did myself.  On the other hand, I have enough of a rebel in me that I think it may have actually helped me if I ran into doubt from others. 

IT can be done, and you shouldn't wait until you are the "right size"- read Slow fat triathlete (available at barnes and noble and I think the store here). The author proves that you don't have to be fast or thin to be a triathlete!

Look in my album at my before and almost after pics. Tri training and WW helped me achieve that success! Although, I must tell you, that last summer I started training at levels that were off the activity points tracker and I had to abandon WW to some extent and eat more. I still used the principles, but I had to up the volume of calories because I wasn't eating enough and my weight loss plateaued. Once I started eating to train, and just made sure I had a daily deficit of calories of about 500, my weight loss started back up. Now my weight loss is much slower, but I don't even feel like I'm on a diet- I just eat to train and the weight keeps coming off. It's sooooo exciting and I am soooo happy for you. I am in love with triathlons and will be starting up with a coach in March. At first I just wanted to finish and lose weight. Now I want to be more competitive (read middle of pack instead of back of pack). It can happen!!

PS- just to show you how far you can come in a year. Last January I started running. In February I was was running about 15 minute miles and could only do about 3 miles before I would have to start doing a run walk situation. I did a marathon with Team in Training in early June and run/walked 26.2 miles in 6 hours, 30 minutes, 30 seconds.  That just barely under 15 minute miles. After the marathon I started back to running 3 miles straight and began to run longer little bit by little bit on the weekends. Now I can run a 5K in just over 30 minutes (10-10:30 minutes/mile) and I am going to be running (no walking) a half marathon this weekend. My goal is 2:30 which is just under 11:30 min/mile pace, a far cry from my 15 min/mile pace last spring!!!

If I can do it, you can do it!!!!!!!!