Gary's Mentor Group - Closed

Hi!

Name: Dragos

Country: Romania (Europe)

I am a total newbie but I hope I can join.

I am reading a lot lately about triathlon racing and started preparing for my first triathlon. 

I always loved all kinds of sports and after doing a half marathon last autumn (1h 58')I decided to get prepared for triathlon races. I started training almost two weeks ago. I am 24 years old, 5'10" and 152 lbs and I am highly competitive and plan to train as hard as I can.

I would like to do a half marathon at end of may, a sprint triathlon in mid july, and then move on up to an olympic in august and september. Meanwhile I plan to compete in some cycling events to get familiar to racing and all kinds of other events but I need coaching as I don't know for how much I should aim in my first year.

This is the starting point, I am confident I can improve fast!

Hello Gary,

My name is Daniel and I just stumbled onto this site and am very interested and motivated to join if there is still space.  I am a 52 year old midlife career changer.  I now teach 7th grade lit/la.  I weigh 240, am 6'0" and consider myself active and healthy.  I would be thrilled to train for my tris and drop 45 pounds. 

I will write more if I can get into the group.  Curious how this works.

Daniel

Daniel, you're in!  Go ahead and post your background. 

Any openings left for a 2nd Season Grandma??

Wendy, 45, from Manhattan, Kansas

Married, mother of two grown sons. My 1yr old GrandDaugher, Madilynn, was my inspiration to get back in shape. My journey: I found out in June 2010 that I was to become a Grandma. I was lazy and overweight. Not the kind of Grandma I wanted to be. That week I saw a news story on the Topeka Tinman Triathlon. Something clicked. When I was young I ran track, was on the swim team and rode my bike to get to practices. I secretly made the 2011 Tinman my goal. I started walking and at the end of a mile I was sweating out of breath and my legs were cramping. I kept walking and started to eat healthier and using myfitnesspal.com to log my meals, calories, exercise etc. When the walking got easier I started going to water aerobics, as I knew I wasn't ready to swim laps yet. In November 2010 I started Couch to 5K. In December 2010 I started swimming laps again. One lap at a time at first, it was pathetic! My Granddaughter was born in January 2011 by then I had dropped over 30lbs! In Febraury 2011 I started riding my bike and in March 2011 bought a road bike and was HOOKED on cycling. It is my favorite of the three! On June 18, 2011 I completed the sprint distance of the Topeka Tinman Triathlon in 1hr 35min, I felt like I had won! I loved it so much that I went on to do three more! I'm not fast but I don't give up!

Current Goals: Currently working on going from 5k to 10k. Doing Biking Across Kansas in June. Completing 4-5 Sprint Tri's this summer.

I train 6-7 days per week. I have not used my training log in FOREVER but will start it back up again this weekend!