New in New Mexico (Santa Fe)

I just posted this in "Introduce Yourself" forum but thought I might post it again here to see who is out there in the Santa Fe area that might help with local training ideas etc:

Hi Everyone,

I'm not only new to Triathlons, but new to this forum stuff as well. Actually the "new to triathlon" is only partially true, as I haven't done one one in over 25 years. When I owned a bike shop in Los Alamos 1975-1986 I actually started the Los Alamos NM triathlon about 30 years ago. As far as I know, they didn't even have names for the different categories back then like Sprint, Olympic etc. They had the Iron Man in Hawaii and triathlons were just starting to take off.

Anyway, it wasn't long after that I changed careers and have had an office job ever since, so you might say I've been sitting on my butt for about 25 years or so. I put on about 30 lbs and this past Christmas broke 200lbs and said that's enough (I was about 165lbs and in great shape 30 years ago - yep, it happens to a lot of us) So, you guessed it, my New Year's resolution was to lose 20 lbs and get back down to at least 180lbs. I made it, about a month ago! Now I'm wanting to push for more and decided to keep going and train for triathlons again.

There are a number of tri's in New Mexico next year and specifically I would like to compete in my home town one here in Santa Fe in July and of course must go back and do the Los Alamos one in August as well. Probably a warm one before those so I don't embarrass myself

Any tips, on training programs, health, nutrition, essential equipment etc etc would be most appreciated. Also if you happen to be in New Mexico, if you know traing groups or?? that would be helpful too.

Good Luck to all of you, with your personal goals!!

Jeff