parrj's Group - FULL

Jamie,

Nice of you to join and let me welcome you to the BT community.  The Florida group of Bters are fantastic.  Sounds like you have a great start/plan ahead of you.  Being a chef would kill me because i'm addicted to food.  I'm on the seafood diet.  I see it, I eat it.    If you have any questions in particular, please feel free to post them or send me a private message (PM).  I suggest just looking around the site, forums, others logs and what not.  Look forward to being able to help you along.

Carl,

Nice to have you on board and welcome to BT.  This is a great community with a ton of information and knowledge.  I encourage you to look around at forums, logs, whatever.  If you have any specific questions either post them here or you can private message (PM) me.   Do you have any races planned for the upcoming season???

Ed,

Welcome to BT.  Sounds like you have a good start and a little background in racing tri's already.  Congrats on the child on the way.  When is your wife expecting?   Is your family pretty supportive of your training?   Doing a HIM seems like there is a big time commitment, you sure thats something you want with the new addition coming soon.  If I can be of any help or answer any questions please let me know.

William,

Sounds like you have a good plan ahead of you.  A sprint is a great event to start out with and you left yourself plenty of time to train.  Swimming was one of my biggest problems as well.  I started reading the total immersion book at the bookstore and ended up buying it because it has helped me so much.  You can look at my logs and see how far i can swim now, compared to at other points.  I would say to the biggest thing for you now would be, 1. stick to a training program, or at least the recommended hours.  Don't going burning yourself out.  I've found that tri seasons can be very long.  2. With every workout, have a goal for that workout.  Without knowing were you are now, i would say it should probably be increasing distance or time. (known as base building)  3. Have fun.

If there are any questions I can answer, please let me know.

Carl,

If you are talking about the Ford Ironman 70.3 World Championship, you need to qualify for that race by doing and placing in a particapating 70.3.  I don't believe they give out slots like Hawaii does for the full ironman.  Plus a HIM is a huge race for your first season.  A good website to find races at is www.trifind.com  you can look by state and find races all over Florida.  If you plan on doing a HIM towards the end of the year, I would definitely try to through in a couple sprints or even an olympic just to prepare yourself.  Don't want you to burn out and hate tri's in your first season.

Jeff

Basically the log is a way for everyone to track what you are doing and how you are doing.  So keeping up a good log is important.  You don't need to fill out a weight, body fat %, sleep, etc....  Just log your workout and make a feel notes in the bottom blog area.  If you are on a REST DAY, put that in for everyone to know.  If you are going away for a weekend, tell us that too so we known why you aren't logging anything.

Make sure you put me and the others in the group in you log so that we can inspire each other.  Hopefully we can get one more person and have a nice group of 5 newbies and me.

Hector,

Great to have you aboard.  So you've been running for about 3 months, doing some Mountain biking (MTB), and swimming?  Sounds like you have made a great plan for yourself.  Seems like everyone in my group wants to do a half ironman (HIM) this year.  Have you looked at a training plan for HIM's, they are a lot of training.  Your VO2 is what it is.  Don't expect that to change much with training.  Its the engine you get from your parents.  If we could improve our VO2, we would both be professional athletes.    If you want a important measurement, see if you can get a lactate thershold (LT) test.  That will help you with training.

If you have any questions, please ask away and pick my brain.   Question for you, how come I can't see a training log for you?

So we have our group of 5.  We have a nice distribution across the US and 2 international members.  We can all motivate each other and make sure we stay on top of our game.  What we need is 2 things.
1. you need to log your workouts!!!!
2. you need to write a little bit on what you want to achieve by the end of March.  This will help us to continuely motivate each other.

Here is who we got:

parrj    Jeff  Gainesville, FL

piperfl    Jamie  Boca Raton, FL

rede2train    Carl  Upstate, NY

buschy     Ed  Bend, OR

wiltech     William  London, England

hlsantiago     Hector  Puerto Rico

Here are my goals to reach by the end of March...

1. I'm doing my first marathon (mary) in Feb, so complete that (hopefully in 4hrs or less).
2. Get my weight down back under 190lbs.
3. Continue to swim on a regular basis (at least twice a week).

4. Stay on top of my school work so I'm not killed with work the last 2 weeks of the semester.

You will also notice that in a lot of my writtings, I will put the common short-hand that we use in tri's and racing and especially here on BT in ().