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carrie1 - 2007-05-16 12:33 PM my official 'intent' to join

Welcome, Carrie!

Sign me up!!!  I'll come back in and post my full Bio later, but what could be better than having Jim as a mentor? 

Highlights: first season of triathlons (or running, biking, swimming for that matter), competed 2 sprint tris so far this year, plan on 2-3 more sprints and 1-2 Olys, married to crazytrain (wendy) who's also new to tris and we have a 4 year old son and 2 year old daughter.

Hi - I'd like to join the group. I'll come back and write a bio when I get home from work.

O.K. - now the details 

NAME:  David aka herridge

STORY: I have always been a fairly active person, however, not very athletic.  I was one of the only kids at my high school who found the loophole that let me drop gym class as a subject.  I played tennis, through high school, and have always loved cross country skiing, but competition and team sports were not my thing. When I graduated from university (almost 20 years ago) I bought a bike and have gradually become a serious cyclist.  Through my 20's I worked out at a gym to keep fit for the things I love to do: hiking, climbing, canoeing, and skiing.  When the kids came along I found I had less time for the gym and when I changed jobs I stopped going altogether.  At that point I started running to bridge the gap between cycling and ski seasons.  I ran a few 5 k races at a conference I go to every year and last year when I turned 38++ I decided to add swimming to the mix and do a triathlon.  Tri had appealed to me since I saw one back in university days, and a few years back I just happened to be in Penticton for Ironman Canada.  The tri bug had been planted in my head and it seems it was released last year.  At this point I have done one sprint tri last August.

FAMILY STATUS: I'm married and have a 10 year old boy and a 7 year old girl.  There is currently another on the way (oops!).  My wife is active but has not been super supportive of this new interest.  We have always done things together and I don't think she likes my doing something that takes me away from the family and her.

CURRENT TRAINING: I am signed up for an Olympic race on June 16th and have another that I plan to do on July 7th.  My training is based on the bronze level 20 week olympic plan from this site with some modifications to suit my schedule

LAST YEAR'S RACES: Last year I did my first race, the National Capital Sprint Triathlon, based on training using the BT 16 week sprint plan.  I was pleased enough with my results, coming in around the 66th percentile on my first race.

2007 RACES:  See above.

WEIGHTLOSS: Not really an issue for me.  I'm 6'4", 180 lbs - I put on about 30 lbs when the kids were born that I would ultimately like to convert to muscle - but I needed the weight as I was clinically underweight for many years.

David

Hey Jim...

I'm in!  I have my first tri in a month... I need all the advice I can get.  I'll post my bio later... I have mommying to do at the moment.

Mila

I'm in.  You gave me some good advice when I first signed up for the site so who better to get more from.  I will fill out my bio later, but my first race is in 3 weeks, so bring on the advice!

 So here we go -

I live in Westchester County, NY, about 20 miles outside of NYC.  I'm married  for 3 and a 1/2 years and have two girls, Caroline 2 1/2 and Grace 15 months.  Both my wife and I work in NYC (me finance, her fashion).

I've been athletic all my life, played football, hockey and baseball in HS and Hockey in college.  Always been interested in Ironman and distance races.  My dad is a runner with over 10 different marathons under his belt, so I was always around it.

Started training about 4 months ago.  Couldnt swim at all.  Now I find myself doing 1000 - 2000 yards a workout and its a huge confidence boost.  I'm doing 3 sprints this summer and an OLY in September. 

I'm extremely competitive and doing this for fitness, competition and fun.  I hope to do a 1/2 Iron next year, then who knows.  In the meantime I have my first Sprint on June 2 and I can't wait. 

Hey, I'm Nate.  If this group isn't too full already, I'd like to join.  I just started triathlon-ing this year and would like someone to make sure I'm doing anything stupid.  I got into this because I really needed something to do that would keep me healthy and I could do it on my own.  I also wanted some sort of challenge that would get me doing something active and wasn't as boring/daunting as just running for 4 hours straight. 

I just did my first sprint Tri in the end of April and I'm trying to continue with a few more this summer.  I also just signed up for the Marine Corps Marathon.  So I'm trying to balance training for that with all the other cross training needed for tris.  I'm not trying to lose any weight or win any races, I just do this because it's fun and a challenge.  Now, everyone thinks I'm crazy for it. 

Well, let me know if I can join.  Talk to you later.

~ Nate

NAME: Rob (Sunburnin)

STORY: 36 year old and new to tri's this year.  I got the bug from a friend who's training for IMLP and she convince me to try a tri last June.  My wife took the leap with me and we both trained for a 5k last fall and then for our first tri this March.  I was hooked with the training and more so after the first race.  I just did my second race this past weekend (first OWS and not such a good experience - haha) but I'm getting back out and practicing again this saturday.  I was semi athletic as a kid and in HS, but nothing since.  This is the best shape I've ever been in (and I have a long way to go).  I'm 5'9" and 179lb (down from 196 a year ago!!!)

FAMILY STATUS: Married to Wendy (crazytrain here on BT) for 7 years and we have a 4 year old son (Aidan) and a 2 year old daughter (Kierra).  Wendy is training with me but probably won't race as much.

CURRENT TRAINING:  We're working with a local coach who's setting up our weekly plans for us.  She also teaches a tri swim clinic I'll wrap up next week.  Another 8 week session coming up in a month.  I train mainly in the mornings before work so I have lots of time for the family at night.  Typically train 6-9 hours per week.

LAST YEARS RACES:  4 5 k's.  Each a bit faster than the one before (went from 34:45 to 32:20)

2007 RACES:  MAP Sprint Tri (Mar 18) 1:31:, Cane Creek Sprint Tri (May 12) 1:51 (boo), Latta Sprint Tri (June 16), Lake Logan Oly (Aug 4), Lake Norman Sprint (Aug 25)... Looking at a few others for July, Sept and Oct TBD

WEIGHLOSS:  Already down from 196 to 179... want to get to 170 mid summer for my races.

Hey Kevin! I totally here you about the gaining weight thing. After I got out of school, I packed on about 20 pounds that I've always struggled to drop--I have a reallyhard time getting down to my fighting weight. Even when I was IM training, the weight didn't want to come off (it turnsout that I really like to eat). And I guess that makes three of us with stress fractures. I had a tibial stress fracture that I actually ran a marathon on. Your approach to it sounds much better.

 Welcome!

 I know you're just here for the cake...

I'll be interested to hear how it goes with both you and your wife training, since Amy and I are trying to manage the same thing.

Hey Cathleen! First, I gotta say, I have an enormous amount of respect for anyone that can train in Houston! We lived in Seabrook for about 5 years, and while you can acclimate, it's nothing but miserable for a lot of the year (two seasons: summer and February). I'd actually be surprised if you *didn't* have exercise-induced asthma, since i just don't think lungs were meant to breath in water-saturated furnace air 40 times a minute...

 Tri training is all about organization and balance--it's no doubt going to be hard juggling it with what you've got going on in your life, but I'm sure you can do it if you stay disciplined about managing your schedule (I do foresee lots of stationary trainer time, though).