Hashers and Mashers - Closed

Hi Sarah,

I'm IN!

Name: TomsTri-ing ( Tom Lakatos)

Story: Beginning my second year of Tri's.  Completed 3 tri's, 1 duo, and barely got out of the water in one.  Otherwise, what a great year.  I was born with a congential heart defect and had open heart surgery way back in the last century, 1966. Currently have my second defibrillator (battery backup) and working on my bucket list.  I cycled a lot in my 20's and never liked running, not a bad swimmer, just out of shape.  Now it is just keeping up what I developed and strengthing going forward.

FAMILY STATUS: Single/Divorced, still talk to the EW (Ex Wife), our son will be 25 in May.  He has battled his weight most of his life.  Since I started training last year I like to think I have been a positive influence.  He joing Weight Watchers a few months ago and has lost over 40 lbs.  Otherwise, looking for a special someone while my dog keeps me company.

CURRENT TRAINING: Hired a coach this year, upgraded to GOLD, and seems to be working out.  I signed up for a HM in early April, (what was thinking - Dave did this to me) so lots more running for someone that hated running.

THIS YEAR'S RACES: HM on 4/7, 8K on 4/21, then repeat my first TRI on 4/28. Sprint on 7/20, Oly in late June - maybe.

WEIGHT LOSS: Started at 220 last year, currently floating (pun intended) around 197.  Trying to concentrate on meats and veggys by way of my coach.

May The Legs Be With You!

WHEN CAN YOU START MENTORING CONSISTENTLY: Immediately (co-mentoring with Sarah)

NAME: Mike

STORY: 46 years old - jogged and mountain biked sporadically over the years but never really focused on anything besides trying not to gain too much weight. Slowly gained weight until I hit about 185 pounds in 2008 (I'm 5' 7"). Early 2009 a friend of mine convinced me that if I can run 5 miles, I could build up to a half marathon. I decided to go for it and ran my first half marathon in April 2009. Once I did that I decided to make a second attempt at doing a triathlon. My first attempt was a couple years earlier and I gave up after going to the pool twice and not being able to swim more than a lap or two. Figured if I started in April I could learn to swim in a couple months and do a Sprint tri in July or August.  Swimming did not come easily to me (it was quite humbling and humiliating actually). It took going to the pool 2-3x per week for six months until it finally clicked. Once it did, I bought a bike and did my first sprint tri in May 2010.  Since then I've done several Sprint tris, a few Olympic tris and a couple 70.3's. This year was going to be my first full Ironman, but changes at work have required a lot more travel and hours so I may have to put my IM dreams on hold for a while. I've blogged my journey at blog.ransick.org.

FAMILY STATUS: Married for 24+ years, 2 kids - 21 yo daughter & 15 yo son

CURRENT TRAINING:  I've been doing a lot of running and love running on the single track trails at the university.

THIS YEAR'S RACES:

May Madness Sprint (Effingham, IL) - 5 minute PR.

Gateway Olympic (Carlyle, IL)

Cohassett Sprint (Cohassett, MA) - race-cation visiting my sis

Door County 70.3 (Egg Harbor, WI) - first sanctioned HIM

RnR St. Louis half marathon (St. Louis, MO) - 5 minute PR

Patrick's 12 hour run (SIUE, Edwardsville, IL) - I ran four hours and 18 miles - 3 mile PR

WEIGHTLOSS: I started out doing endurance sports weighing about 185. I'm now about 157 and would like to shed a little more but don't want to give up beer :-)

WHAT WILL MAKE ME A GOOD MENTOR:  I like helping people acheive their goals and sharing my experience. I've learned that this is more than a three discipline sport, it's more like six. Swim, bike, run, rest, fuel, and mental. I'm also a student of the sport, so I've done and do a lot of reading and should be able to answer some questions and help research answers to ones I don't know.

Sarah and Mike will be outstanding mentors!!!  

Anyone out there lurking needs to get in here! 

Just wondering if there will be any viking hijinx or not??

Hey Mike,

Good to see you as a mentor.  Looking forward to another go at it.

Shellllllllleeeeeeeeeeee   Nice to see you and Tom, Mike and Sarah here.  

So good to see everyone!!

Tom - Good job on the weight loss. I didn't know you had lost that much weight last year...and keeping it off!! Kudos!!

Shelly - You have to get your bio up! You are always the inspiration to the group. Whenever I feel tired, and complain that it's too hard, I just go back, read your bio, and then feel like a whimp! It puts everything in perspective!

Mike - Thank you, thank you for co-mentoring with me. I need all the help I can get...in more ways than one

Dave - Thank you for coming. I knew you couldn't stay away!! Dave was my (and most of us here) mentor last year, and HE WAS (IS) AWESOME!! I know he will be stopping by frequently, and his input is soooooo valuable to all of us! How can I refrain from the Viking motif, it's in my blood!!

Chris - So good to see you here!! Now we're an international group...that sounds so chic!! My only connection to Australia is that I have moved on from watching every netflix episode of Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, to Lost...that's sort of a connection, right? Oh yeah, and Amanda. She was a girl in my grade school from Australia who was pretty, and smart, and funny, and the only girl in my class who could beat me in a running race. I hated her!! I'm over it...really!

Welcome Chris,

I can't even imagine trying a TRI in Aussie heat right now.  Hope you are somewhat cooler than the interior. 

Tom

Hi gang!  I'm here and I'm in!   

I'll try to get around to posting my story sometime today or tomorrow.  Just finished a brick.  1100y swim and 45 min on the trainer.  Up and running!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Jax

I do need to run tomorrow!   I feel the need for Speeeeed! 

Sooo awesome that Mike/Sarah started the Hashers/Mashers group.    New peeps really need to get in here while they can. 

And thanks for providing a new forum for all of us Magical Mys-tri tour groupees.     You all are "The Awesome!"

Here is my bio

Nice to meet y'all    No I'm not from the south.  I just like saying y'all

This is kinda long so go ahead and grab a coffee  if you have some time to kill.   Or just skim through.

NAME:  (Oriolepwr) Dave

FAMILY STATUS:  Married  with two daughters ages 12 and 10  (so proud both swim/run and have done a couple of Triathlons!  YAY)

WEIGHTLOSS:   Lost a bunch of weight in the past  but I do like to drink beer.  maybe too much?  Am food logging EVERY thing I eat and drink in 2013 on  Myfitnesspal.com

STORY:   20 years ago I was a Cat 2 cyclist.  Had a bad crash.  tried to get back into race shape, but mentally did not have it.   Hung up my race bike and stopped ALL training.  My days of being athletic were over.  Or so I thought.   14 years of sedentary life left me in bad shape.

 My DW finally was able to convince me to see the doctor.   High blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, High cholesterol among other things.  So I began to sulk.    Then one day I was just watching my two wonderful and very young daughters eat as poorly as I had been.   I decided stuff had to change.  

I changed my diet,  decided since I was a good runner when I was younger, I could just run 2 miles every day and the girls could see me do it. And get inspired.  I never saw either of my own parents run a single step.  I could not "DO as I say, not as I do" as a role model.   Because that does not work too well.    So each day I'd run.    BUT that was not good enough for me.  I had to run faster and faster to try and beat my time.  And I got faster.  and faster.   So I began to think.  hmmm maybe I should run a 5K  So I did!  it was soo much fun I ran a 5K the next 12 weekends in a row.   

I got my health back, and was able to get off all medication. 

   Eventually though, I got injured, and joined the local gym and started swimming a mile each day to try and maintain my hard earned fitness.   One day I go past the spin room.  got on a bike for first time in 15 years    Spin was FUN! so added that to the mix.       Took my old race bike down, overhauled it and entered a Duathlon.   wow that was fun!  so since I had been swimming and all.  I then moved on to TRIATHLON! 

And in over the last 6 years have raced over 100 events of various distances  running/cycling/Triathlon. 

PAST RACES  Tri's  IM-Moo, Muncie, Steelhead, Racine, Door,  Branson, Kansas 70.3's,  Marathons,  Chicago 4X,  Dallas 2X, NYC, Disney A bunch of  other stuff.

2013 RACES:  Dialing things down.  Want to do a couple of local Oly's, Chicago Marathon  and will add a few more events along the way if time/$$/work/life  allows.    Am trying to focus more on Running and losing weight thru better diet and food logging.   It's "possible" I will add a substantial Tri to this list.   Never know.  But will really depend on how stuff progresses over the coming months. 

Misc:

Co-Mentored the infamous Magical Mys-Tri Tour mentor group last year, and also am a Spin instructor. 

I'm also in swim Guru and all around good guy  Matt Gimartin's mentor group.    My role there is to just basically be a nuisance to all.  I can provide nuisanceness here as well :-)

I have lots of experience doing mostly the wrong things.   I will happily share them, along with some genuine helpful knowledge about what might hopefully help you to maximize your Tri experience. 

I will support you, and hope you will do same for me.  Humor is a great way to get through good times and bad.

Hi, everyone.  I'd like to join this group.

Name: Tom (ladlehaus)

Story: I ran my first tri in 2010 as a way to get back into shape. When I announced my intentions to run a tri, my then six-year-old daughter told me that she would beat me in a race, and my wife said that I needed more life insurance then. Three years later and thirty pounds lighter, I've completed a few races a year and trained enough for my wife to think I'm nuts. I was signed up for IM Lake Placid, but dropped out because my wife was due the week before the race. Now, I'm getting over a knee injury from Thanksgiving that derailed marathon training. My goal this year is to stay healthy and injury free and train more consistently than ever before. My A race this year is the Rev 3 Cedar Point 140.6.

FAMILY STATUS: Married with three kids. My son is ten, my daughter nine, and my baby girl is 7 months.

CURRENT TRAINING: Very little. The past fall, I ran exclusively preparing for the Mickey Mouse Marathon. It had gone very well until injuring my knee at Thanksgiving. Planning on using Don Fink's IM plan this year.

THIS YEAR'S RACES: Local sprints. Pittsburgh Tri-Oly. Rev3 Cedar Point.

WEIGHT LOSS: In my ideal world, I'd like to lose another 40 pounds or so. In order to do that, I've really go to stop eating so much pizza.