nevergivin's group (Closed)

Hi!  Mind if I join in?

NAME: Pink Princess/Veronica (or "V" for short.)

STORY: 32-year-old runner who took up triathlon last year after repeated injuries following a 5-6 runs a week training schedule.  Running is still my strongest event by far though.

FAMILY STATUS: Boyfriend of three years and two cats.

CURRENT TRAINING: I am currently following the "Beginner Half-Ironman" plan.

THIS YEAR'S RACES: Last year's "A" race happened to be a 3-day, 90-mile canoe race, so I mostly paddled.  I did do a bunch of 5Ks and my first sprint tri though.

2010 RACES: I've signed up for the Tinman 70.*6* in June and am looking to do my first marathon in the fall.

WEIGHTLOSS: None for me.  I'm very lucky that I still have a high metabolism and don't have to work to maintain weight.

Looks like a great group, hope I’m welcome!!!

Name:  Bigr82 (Ryan)

Story: Now getting into my later Twenties.  I've always been into sports, did the stick and ball games in HS.  After that I've been into wakeboarding, as well as racing dirt bikes.  Since leaving college, getting a full time sales job, I’ve seemed to pack on the weight.  After starting to exercise this year and doing a few 5k's(hating to run my entire life) with a friend, tri's seemed to be the next amazing step.

Family Status: Will be married for five years this coming year, one small dog

CURRENT TRAINING: Doing the 3X plan off the free plan list.

2010:  As of now doing a local sprint(my first ever), hoping to have a chance at an OLY (maybe chi) by the end of the year.

WEIGHTLOSS:  Maybe this is my true story heheh.  As of Jan12th this year I tipped in at a crazy 370, while weighing in for a little weight loss competition.  Even though I’m 6'8 I really had no idea I was this big.  Having to go to a plant with an industrial scale, this made my mind up to change things.  This morning I’m 289, hoping to reach 270 by Jan 12th of 2010 but will be close. I would like to be 250ish by my first sprint in April.

NAME: Norcal_SAHD/ (David)

STORY: I'm a 39yo stay at home dad to two girls (5 and 7) who suddenly has a little more time avaliable now that the youngest has started kindergarten!  I have a loose background in mountain biking for fun, but have never seriously exercised in my life.  I was a water skiier growing up, but never properly learned how to swim.  I most certainly never ran, unless someone was chasing me...  Most of my life (from 10yo till now) was focussed around motorcycles and motorcycle racing.  I still ride, but haven't raced in a few years.  My intro to Tri's is a bit random, I had a friend from long ago who documented his training for an Ironman online, and I followed his progress.  I thought hey, that sounds like a fun way to get in shape!  So I signed up for a sprint tri this last summer, and trained for it.  My wife and 7yo daughter also did their first Tri's on that weekend, it was a gas!  My daughter loved it (it was a short kids tri) and has since joined a local swim team.  I love seeing my active new self rubbing off on my family!

FAMILY STATUS: Married (11 years) with our 2 girls, age 5 and 7.   One overactive dog, and two lazy cats that don't like me.  We live about 30 minutes north of San Francisco so I have good weather all year long, and I'm swimming at a local Junior College pool about 5 miles from my house.  I have access to the pool 2x/week.  We also have a treadmill and excercise bike in our garage.  While I don't enjoy either one all that much, it's nice to have the option of working out after tucking in the kiddo's.

CURRENT TRAINING: I followed a beginner super sprint Tri plan for my first Triathlon in September (pulled the training plan out of a book I'd bought), and it worked very well.  I then followed a 5k plan for running (found somewhere on the web) in preparation for a thanksgiving 5k fun run, and that too worked great.  I ran it in 25:40, which exceeded my expectations!  I'd love to do some more 5k's next year, it was a fun (and HARD) distance.  Currently I'm working off a run focussed Olympic plan (one of the BT plans) in preperation for an Xterra Triathlon in late March.  My goals are simply to build the base needed to have FUN during the race.  I have no expectations of speed, but would like to be able to feel strong the whole way.  I've found I NEED to have a goal, or I loose motivation to work out.  Even with a solid goal, I still tend to miss workouts a lot, it doen't take much to get me off track...

THIS YEAR'S RACES: Did a Super Sprint in September (400yd, 8mi, 2mi) put on by tbfracing.com (I loved them, and plan to enter as many of their events as I can!), and ran a 5k Turkey Trot while visiting my in-laws over thanksgiving.  I loved the 5k race itself, though the organization of the particular one I raced really sucked. 

2011 RACES: My wife and I are going to do a New Years Duathlon on Jan 3 (2mi run, 7mi bike, 2mi run) which I'm not specifically training for, but shouldn't be a problem.  I want to do the Xterra Real MTB Triathlon on March 28th in Folsom (.5mi swim, 16mi bike, 4mi run), and then do the 4 race series at Rancho Seco over the summer.  They offer both Sprint and Olympic length events, I don't know which I'll do yet.  At those 4 weekends, they also put on kids Triathlons that my daughters want to race in.  My older daughter did one last year and loved it, my younger daughter needs to learn to swim first... 

WEIGHTLOSS: I weighed 225lb in January 2007.  That year my wife and I went hardcore South Beach Diet, and I lost 50 pounds by Thanksgiving 2007.  That was strictly diet based, I did zero exercising during that time.  Since then, my weight slowly crept from 175 at my lowest up to around 190 earlier this year.  I'm still living with an overall diet based on the South Beach concepts (no processeed food, lots of veggies, no sugar, basically a low GI diet which includes me cooking meals every day, no more store bought 'ready made' meals) but I'm not that hardcore about it these days.  My weakness is sourdough bread and jelly beans.  I don't know why, but those are the foods that just do it for me.  I haven't eaten fast food in over a year, and have no desire to.  I do enjoy a good (or bad, I'm not that picky) beer once in a while, and sometimes have some wine with dinner, but don't really drink much alcohol.  I'm not currently trying actively to loose weight, but I'd like to get back to 175.  I'm more focussed on getting in good shape though.  So far, I have not lost any weight since starting to work out, but I have dropped two inches in my waist.  More muscle, less fat, but still 185 pounds right now.

all right, that's about it for now.  I'm riding my bike to the pool to go swimming now!  See, I'm already feeling more motivated.  It's working!!