Yes, a huge congratulations tbill. I can only dream of doing that one day. People like you motivate me to keep training hard. Keep up the great work- don't know what your next goal is, since you just did an IM! But best of luck training and enjoy some turkey today.

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This proves that really anyone can do it. After 2 children and business trips out of country I weighed 225 lbs this Jan when I started training. My final race weight was 183. So far, I'm still able to maintain that weight and don't want to go back to where I was. One thing, doing an IM really is a family effort. Without the complete support of your spouse, its impossible, unless you want to get divorced. My week day training was all done either early morning or at lunch, but pretty much every Saturday was all day on the bike. Most of my long runs on Sunday were done in the wee hours of the morning before church, but closer to race time I did do some of the long runs mid day which impacted family time. Pretty much my wife told me I needed to do something about my weight and the IM was really her idea.

So what design of tatoo are you getting and where will you put it?





Edited by Steve- 2004-11-30 3:25 PM

Tbilll,
What was your racing background before your IM? How many half IM's and what was your time in those. What was your expected time to finish IMMOO and how close were you to that time? What was the hardest part for you? I totally understand the whole training thing. I get my runs in during lunch and my wife picks up the kids so I can swim before they get home and I ride the trainer after the kids go to sleep, yet I still feel guilty about the weekends. I am out of the house at 5:45 but I'm still not home until noonish and then wiped out for most of the day. Then Sundays are the same, I leave before they wake up and right now my distances aren't that long so I'm home before they get going, but again I'm still wiped out. My wife has been a saint through this but its only going to get harder. I hope she remains supportive.
How did you keep from putting the weight back on? I am finally getting happy with my body, but its taking 15 hours of working out a week to get it this way
Congrats on your finish...What's next?
Tom

thought long and hard about the tattoo. the final straw was that there are guys at the y who have done 2 or 3 ims that don't have a tattoo. a buddy of mine got one after he did 4. i kind of figured after i do 4, then maybe. instead i got the mdot to go on a chain around my neck.

yeah, that's cool. i know friends of mine like that too...all are guys.

i had done 2 1/2 ims. gulf coast in 2002 with team in training and rock & roll man this past june, which was the 1/2 way point in my training so it was a gauge of how i was doing. one half was 7.25 hrs and the other was 6.5. prior to that i had been doing sprints since around 97. my expected time at moo was 14:15 and i beat that by 14 minutes. since i'm not a runner, that was the hardest part for me. i'm keeping the weight off by still working out most week days. i still get up early and go spinning and run. i'm actually doing a 10 - 12 mile run/walk most friday mornings. i'm still swimming twice a week at lunch. right now the girls have swimming lessons on saturday mornings, so i do that, but once that's over i'll pick back up with my 25 or 50 mile rides. i can do those early and still be ok for the rest of the day. i guess the only thing that has changed since training for moo is i don't do the long 125 mile death march rides on the weekends anymore. probably the next thing for me will be gulf coast in may. i was hoping to get in a marathon before then, but it doesn't look like it'll work out.

Awesome job at IM Moo!  The area up there is georgeous.  I'd love to hear more about your race!  Can you fill in other parts of the RR?  (i.e. T1, T2, each portion SBR, etc.)

Sharon

Edited by snikpos 2004-12-05 2:51 AM