Credit Agricole Team Thread

Thanks Cat--this takes a lot of work and let me be the first to thank you for your work on this.

I think I have only met one of my teammates in the past.  

My name is Geoff Wieczynski.  I am starting my third year of TRIs.  I have my first A race for the year in a couple of week--which is the Vineman Half.

I have a great wife and five great kids.  I'm constantly trying to cram workouts in with everything else that is going on with my life! 

I live in the San Francisco Bay area--more specifically in the east bay.    

bonjour les vertes emmentales. je m'appelle sappho and je suis tres crazy!!!!

by july end i hope to have done 700 miles, so i will let you guys know how many i hope to do during le tour itself. i am a credit agricole girl because i bought the top because my sister banks with them in france. however my fave rider is the amazing robbie mcewen.  but i might also raise a cheer for mark cavendish as he's british.

You are welcome... the thanks is much appreciated when you start to feel a little cross eyed from the people wrangling/spreadsheets/introduction typing!!!

Umm in case you couldnt tell.. this is the girl to ask about the cheese thing  

Could have it have been moi from the June challenge?

Je m'appelle Nathalie.  J'ai 42 ans, j'aime le fromage, les baguettes, le jambon et le vin rouge.  My mother tongue is french (born in la Belle Province... Québec) and I live in the Toronto (Ontario, Canada) area. 

I'm single, no kids, no pets. My family still lives in Québec and I visit them as much as possible, especially my little 8 years old niece Laurie-Anne who is very attached to her auntie Nat (or "Matante Nat" in french).  Matante Nat is very fond and proud of her too, she's a little karate kid and is in the process of getting her blue belt (third).  I'm coaxing her to get into triathlons because she also loves to swim, bike and run, and often asks me questions about this wonderful sport.  I'd love to coach her but since we live 600 km apart, it would be rather difficult at this point in time.

This is the second year of triathlons for me, my A race is the Muskoka Ironman 70.3 in Ontario this September.  My TDF goal is to ride 500 km in 11 stages and that will be the most I have ever biked over a period of three weeks. 

I would like to echo Geoff's thanks to Super Duper Cat for her dedicated work, over 110 dedicated peeps to manage is quite a lot of work indeed!

All the best in achieving your goals and....

Allez les Vertes!!!

Merci Nathalie - Bienvenue Le Tour De France 2008.

J'ai etude la langue a l'ecole mais je n'ai rien utilise ca (not sure if thats quite corrent)

J'adore la grande boucle, le chocolate et ma lit. Je voudrais parler le francais en France pour le Tour De France

Writing French was my absolute weakness so that is probably a dogs breakfast but I tried!!! I much prefer just talking it.... less to get wrong with spelling and correct verb conjugations!

Cat 

Bonjour Cat!

I agree with you, speaking French is a lot easier than writing it.  French grammar is not an easy task to master for a lot of people, even for those who have French as their mother tongue.  There are way too many grammatical rules to follow.  I have studied four other languages in my college years and French, Italian and German (especially) were the most difficult to master in terms of grammar.  Spanish (for some obscur reason) and English were a piece of cake! 

Mmmmm...... chocolate.....

Hey everyone,

You know it is amazing... had some French in high school and Italian in college and it is coming back to me as I read.  This is going to be a fun month!!  Well I am off to workout, but when I get back I will introduce myself!!

Hey everyone,

My name is Cheri, and I just got back from running in the world's largest 10K -- the Peachtree Road Race!  The hills absolutely kicked my butt this year, but that's ok.  I'm glad to be back running again (recovering from surgery in May), and I know I'll do better next year.

This is my second year doing triathlons, and I have a goal of an Oly distance in September and a HIM next May.  My goals for this challenge are 11 stages and 180 miles. 

And thanks to Cat for putting this together again!  I was on the Credit Agricole team last year, and it was tons of fun!!!

Yup this team was the right mix of fun and crazy last year... a few people said they are good at the smack talk etc so I put them on this team too.. I figure you should all just have one big happy party going on in here!  

just to confirm i'm in for 100 miles during le tour. will update spreadshete tomorrow and chase everybody up as necessary. welcome to the craziness vertes emmentals

Spreadsheet is a bit ugly at the moment... will see what i can do to spruce it up over the weekend! 

Hi team!

I'm Laura, and this is my first TdF challenge here on BT (not certainly not my first BT challenge!).  I just recently moved to CO from PA (husband's in the military) and am still getting acclimated, but so far am LOVING it.  Especially all the biking opportunities.  I've got my first oly tri coming up on July 20, so I absolutely need the extra T.I.T.S. this month, so this challenge will be great.  Aiming for 12 stages and a total of 360 minutes of riding time.

And for the record, I know zero French.  haha  I took 2 years of Latin (useless) and 2 years of Espanol in high school, that's it.

Looking forward to a great few weeks, team!

Hey everyone!

I'm back... long run workout today  

My name is Pam and I am signed up for 14 stages for a total of 10 hours.  I'm a recent college graduate just getting into a full time job and starting to enjoy life again.  In two weeks I am racing in my first HIM so I am super pumped and starting to taper which is why I will knock off three hours of biking tomorrow and never do anything over that till after the race.  I do occasionally need to get smacked around to keep on track but I will throw it back   I'm excited and looking forward to tearing the other teams up!

D001 - 2008-07-05 10:04 AM

wieczynski - 2008-07-04 10:37 AM Hmmmmm... Somehow I think I will be spending the entire month translating French into English on google.

Well, you can always just make up your own "interpretation."

The world according the Geoff.. I like it! 

Hi Team,

Just a reminder that when talking about events in the actual Tour De France there is a 24 hour ban on posting about recent action from the French roads in either your own team thread or other teams. This is because a lot of people have to work while the live coverage is on which means they do not get the chance to catch up on what is happening in the roads of France until later in the day.

If you do want to chat about the event in France there is a Tour De France forum located here: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=122#s for the duration of the event.

Otherwise Im usually hanging out in beginner chat whenever I have live stage coverage as well... and always happy to chat Tour with ANYONE and EVERYONE!  

Cat

First stage for me as well, 52.68 km.