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Home from Reno - EPIC snow, great skiing, no horrible injuries.  Home just in time to watch the NINERS crush it!!!!

Need to start think about doing a swim, or a run, or, gasp, a bike ride.   May wait until 2013.

Hey everyone!  I've been absent most of last week, holidays and family etc!  It's been hectic getting regularly scheduled swims in.  After this week things will be a little more predictable though.  I've been managing with the gym bikes and a few running sessions.  I was able to do 13.1 mile run last week.  My first venture at the 1/2 distance.  I really wanted to find a race to enter, but didn't have time and it wasn't going to work with my planned half ironman training.  So I just went out and ran it in Juneau last week.  14 or so degrees F, solid ice and a beautiful morning!  I was able to hold my target pace too!  

On a side note, late Christmas present was a Forerunner 910 from my sister!  

It sounds like everyone one here is doing well.  Congrats to Jayne for the big distance, that is truly impressive.  To all of us who struggle when so many terribly delicious items are put out, thank goodness the holidays are almost over!  

This week I'm planning 3 sessions in the pool, hopefully 4 runs and a minimum of 3 hours on a trainer/bike!  I get to spend a full 9 days at home after the 4th, so I will have access to my bike ( praying for no snow on the ground) my favorite pool and lots of snow on the ski hill!  

Happy New Year!  We are heading up for 4 days of new year skiing.  The trip is a day late due to my 7 y/o breaking my 9 y/o's tooth in half.  ugh.  Starting back on a plan after the new year with a whole new focus.  

Jayne - That race looks brutally beautiful.  Congrats.

JondPond-ha I don't understand our own football..Go Broncos....the blizzard wasn't bad some people lost power I didn't and it rained most of the day made perfect snowman snow withmy wife and kids..also thinking about participating in the Tri the Oval..it's a triathlon except instead of swimming it's a 5K skate around the oval in the commons.

Jayne-That is awesome..wish they had something like that around here..love the belt bickle too.

The 5k I was supposed to do has been rescheduled for the 13th...

also a bummer got a letter that my gym membership expires on the 24th and the membership has jumped almost $200!!! I m going to suck it up as they are the ony gym with a pool and free child care

I think that depends upon your goal for the race...  do you have a time goal in mind or is it just to finish?

NAME: Doug

STORY: 51 years old. Live in Raleigh. About to start my new job at Lenovo on January 7. Raced bikes from 16 to 21. Played hockey most of my life up to 4 years ago when I gave it up for triatlon.

FAMILY STATUS: Married with a 14 year old daughter and 12 year old son. Daughter just got Bat Mitzvahed and son will be Bat Mitzvahed in August. 

CURRENT TRAINING: Hired a new coach a couple of months ago and she is the Bomb! Currently swimming and have never learn SO much in a short period! Her drills and tricks to improve my technique are incredible. I am biking and working back to running. I have been doing walking hill repeats with a weighted back pack. I am overcoming tendonitis in my left knee. I am also working on losing weight.

2013 RACES: Only one scheduled so far: the Raleigh 70.3 on June 2. Will add some sprints and olympics depending on how I progress.

Weightloss: Working on this as one of my two major issues (the other being my knee.

Awesome run, Drew.  That takes some serious dedication.

P.S.  I'll trade both of my brothers for your sister 

I think it also depends on how many years you have been training, your discipline strengths, etc.  I always think the best bet is to find a plan that meets your goals (e.g. First HIM?) and stick to it the best you can.  I had a running background when I started triathlon so my long runs were far longer than the average Joe while my bike and swim mileage followed more typical guidelines.  Also think about intensity.  If this is your first HIM, most of your work should be aerobic and you may choose to do very little if any speed work.  

Been away for a few days. Good to see a bunch of new people!!

So to prove how anal some of us are.( Well, in this situation me.)

I didn't really have any distance goals for myself this year. Doing the 2nd IM was my goal. Part way throught the year, injuring my SI sucked, but I recovered and was able to get through IM again.

L ast night I was looking at my mileage for the year . I haven't been logging my bike commuting like last year, so I'm happy with bike.

Running- I was going to be 14k short of 1200km for the year. I wasn't planning on running today other than volunteering at my local resolution run tonight. But being completely anal, we got to Michelle's parent this afternoon, and I ran 9 loops on their road to get 10k done. Tonight I'll get at least another 4k. Very happy to have that mileage with not being able to run for almost 2 months. It's not a ton of miles relatively, but was more that last year. This year, I've been running after my IM, where as last year i did ZILCH after the end of August.

Be safe tonight everyone. Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year all !!!

Enjoy and be safe.

I have trained for a HIM twice, but ended up unable to do either due to injuries.  Just to complete, I was working towards the following:  

Swim - OWS an oly in mass start and then be able to swim a mile and a half in the pool a few times prior to race

Bike - Long ride = 70ish miles or about 4 hour ride - two other one hour interval workouts per week.

Run - always a challenge for me and where my injuries happened (I over did it on speed work once and ramped up mileage too fast the other time) - my goal was long run of 15-17 miles and 35-40 miles per week at peak a couple a weeks out.

First race of the year is in the books.  Local 5k road race - finished in 24:25.  Can only improve from here!

jon

Excellent work JP!! my last race I was running a 6min/km...like to shave that down to 4-5 min/km

It's been really cold here, think any running I do will be indoors for a while except for organized races.

A great way to start the year Jon! Happy New Year everyone!!

LOL - Guess I missed the switch over to the new group.  Anyway I wanted to wish everyone a:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 

I am very much looking forward to 2013 AND I am very happy to kiss 2012 goodbye and good riddance.