International Team - May "President's Cup" challenge

Merci Nicole

Just for fun how many languages are we fluent in ?   

 
Me English and French . 

Happy hunting everyone .   

Hello internationals!!

Adding to van_paulus's question, how about we all introduce ourselves:

• name
• where you're from
• languages
• what our goals are (either specific to the challenge or overall)
• why we tri

and anything else you want to share!

So, my name is Gill and I'm originally from Scotland but now live in the south of England. (And to make me properly international -- or gypsy if you prefer -- I grew up in Australia.)

I speak English and a tiny bit of German. My goals for the challenge are 5 hours of running and cycling and 2 hours of swimming (bank holidays mean that my pool is shut on the days I swim). My overall goals are to finish two upcoming sprint tri's, hopefully faster than my cousin!

Why do I tri? At the moment my main goal is losing some baby-weight!! But I also love the challenge and the variety.

Hey Team

  I am Paul 

I grew up in Quebec   so i speak French and English 

I now  live in California  

My goals are 160 miles bike 60 miles running and 10000 meters swim .

I enjoy  triathlon because its an individual sport  . i would like to say its to loose weight

but that would not really motivate me .  It started as a challenge to see if i could complete one  .  After doing pretty well in the first one .  I really got hooked .   I am   competitive and this is a good outlet . I find it also helps me deal with stress  better than anything else.   In the process i have learned how to swim , learned  how to ride a  road bike and with all that newfound fitness i  have  even completed  a marathon .   So conquering some new goals is what motivates me now.   

Hi fellow Internationalists (??!!??),

My name is Kenny and I am also originally from Scotland, like Gill (Hi there fellow Scot!). However I now live in the desert of New Mexico near Albuquerque.

I speak English (with a Scottish accent of course....or whats left of my accent) and I can speak a small amount of French.....badly!

My goals for the challenge are as follows:

Swim: 7.5hrs

Bike: 13.5hrs

Run: 8.5 hrs

But I have couple of big goals for myself this month. Next weekend I am running my first ever 10k race and the following weekend I am entering my first ever tri, SO I should be able to help with the brick workout and race bonus %'s....hopefully.

Why do I tri??.......Hmmm.......I am still a newbie and not too clear why, but so far I am loving being outside training, enjoying the great outdoors and not getting bored doing only one thing. However the 37lbs weight loss I have had since Jan of this year and the feeling of wellbeing is definitely a big motivator too!

Looking forward to a great month guys....... :-)  

Hello international team,

 My name is Mike.

I grew up in Chicago and went to college in Florida and then I joined the military which is the reason that I'm now on the international team.  I'm currently serving in South Korea.

Sadly, I only speak english and then a few words from the different countries I've visited, Germany, Italy, I speak a little Arabic and I'm becoming better at Hangul (Korean).

My goals for the challenge are as follows:

25000 yards swimming

300 miles biking

70 miles running

As far as my goals for the season I'm looking to place well in the two events that I have scheduled.  I'm doing a base-wide sprint tri in June which I should be able to mop up as long as I don't get injured and then I'm doing Ironman Singapore 70.3 in September, which I just hope to finish since it will be my first half.

Why do I tri?  To stay in shape.  I've always been athletic and running and biking were two sports I grew up in so I just decided that since I'm a decent swimmer I should give triathlon a shot.  I've been hooked since my first race two and a half years ago!

Hi,

I'm Tammie from Melbourne, Australia and I speak English and Australian. LOL.I've actually had to explain my words a few times!

I'm in my off season and I am just returning to the sport after a lengthy absence so I am just trying to stay motivated over the Winter.

I actually started running about 100 years ago to help with weight maintenance but have continued for many other reasons. There wasn't any fun runs over the summer here so I looked for different challenges. Triathlon was the answer. Did them for a couple of years tho' not very seriously. My training was always very patchy. Used the ole time excuse way too often. I stopped doing them after my one and only Olympic distance race due to the time excuse again(3yo son).

Ive decided to return to tris as my body wont let me run as much as I want and need, so cross training is the solution. Plus the triathlon life style is so much fun and I don't buy the "not enough time" rubbish anymore.

Hi everyone.  My name is Dan and Sendai, Japan is home.   I'm originally from the US.  I am still proficient in English and can get by in Japanese.   I have forgotten Latin and most of the German and  Thai I learned (2 years in Thailand before Japan).

My goals for May are:

15,000 meters swim

10 hours cycling

20 hours walk/run

I put myself into the newbee category and I'm still trying to tri.  Why?  I want to be in really great shape and I want to see how far I can push myself.

And yes, I do need a new avatar.

Unless you want your nickname to be " Chick"      

Hello all,

 My name is Martyn and I'm originally from Leicester, England.  I'm currently living in Charlotte, North Carolina and I've been in the states for about 10 years now.  I wouldn't say that I'm fluent in french but I do speak a little...you could probably say the same for my english!  My goals are as follows:

S: 10K meters

B: 180 miles

R: 50 miles

I'm a little nervous about a couple of those numbers but I guess thats why they call it a challenge.  I'm a challenge virgin, by the way!  I decided to start training for a tri because I play entirely too much football (soccer) and I wanted to tri something new and challenging.  So...here goes!

Hi Martyn 

welcome , what s your favorite soccer  team ?    

Hey Steffi,

Good to be on the same team again.

Welcome Phoenix azul

Good luck at the Belfast marathon , some day i would like to run the Dublin marathon.

hello team international!

My name is Isabelle. I come from Canada and i am proud to be with the (winning shh let them find out!) team . hope you have space for one more!

Welcome Isabelle,

Yeah, we'll show them!

message for Paul:

The habs were nice enough to can their season so we can concentrate on this challenge, we should send them a note... 

Quel domage  Isabelle  ,  the team played great , the difference was in the net. Biron made some huge saves . He was the difference.

I am picking Detroit to beat Pittsburgh in 6 games in the finals .

Comment me mettre à dos toute mon espèce...je dois prendre pour les pingouins

Go Pittsburgh (family first!) 

Hey Team

I am a little late checking in, but I just came back from a big Tri in Germany.

I am Torben original from Denmark, but have been living in Iceland for 7 years now

I speak Danish, Icelandic, English, German, Norwegian and Swedish.

My goal for the year is Ironman Cologne (Germany) it will be my first IM, so I am still pretty nervous about it. In preparations for the IM I will run my first marathon at some point around July/Aug, now that scares me a bit since my legs don’t really want to run more then 2 hours before they “stop working” I hope I can get that “fixed” before the IM !