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roadrhino - 2010-03-20 10:39 PM Dear Texas,

Thank you so much for the big welcome party you threw for the first day of spring! Pea-sized hail, 40mph winds, and now 43 degrees. Please be a little more forgiving tomorrow morning during my 3 1/2 hour bike session as I am trying to enjoy my biking experience. I will be incredibly grateful!

Sincerely,

Roadrhino

roadrhino - 2010-03-20 7:39 PM Dear Texas,

Thank you so much for the big welcome party you threw for the first day of spring! Pea-sized hail, 40mph winds, and now 43 degrees. Please be a little more forgiving tomorrow morning during my 3 1/2 hour bike session as I am trying to enjoy my biking experience. I will be incredibly grateful!

Sincerely,

Roadrhino

Newtons1st - 2010-03-20 10:57 AM I ended up taking thursday and friday off with the kids. They are on spring break. So we went fishing all day Thursday and it wore me out. Move my run from sat to Friday due to weather. Got a long trainer ride in this morning. Wow do you miss alot being gone for a few days. 

roadrhino - 2010-03-20 9:39 PM Dear Texas,

Thank you so much for the big welcome party you threw for the first day of spring! Pea-sized hail, 40mph winds, and now 43 degrees. Please be a little more forgiving tomorrow morning during my 3 1/2 hour bike session as I am trying to enjoy my biking experience. I will be incredibly grateful!

Sincerely,

Roadrhino

bzgl40 - 2010-03-21 8:21 AM So as harassed I went on my bike ride yesterday.  I was a little worried about the pace they would set, especially since they didn't indicated a pace on the website.  Turns out I am much fitter then last year (not just the beginning of season, the whole year.  Thanks Jorge!) and had no problems hanging with the big dogs.  Meant a fellow Canadian on the ride which was interesting.  It's pretty easy to tell I am Canadian when I am in shorts.  Figure that one out.   Biking down off Mt. Lemmon was incredible.  You can see the whole city.  The views were so worth it.  I've driven it but this is different.  The head wind really slowed the decent so I need to go back up and try again soon when there are no winds.  The mountain looks worse then it was.  Normally on hills around Oregon I am looking for extra gears that I don't have and on this one I felt I could maintain my pace all the way. 

I should mention that the ride was part of Trifest that has been going on the last 3 weeks here.  When we got back from the ride they had the expo set up with all the different vendors.  I left the wallet in the truck on purpose.  Saw some pretty Zipps that would look nice on my bike (they had them all there), some pretty bikes, etc etc.  I left pretty quickly so that I didn't get in trouble. 

Today I have to do a long run in the heat of the day.  Ugh.  I made a promise to go see some silly hummingbirds at some silly museum.  Yet these are live birds.  I don't get it...  The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is actually a zoo, natural history museum, and botanica garden all in one place. 

roadrhino - 2010-03-20 9:39 PM Dear Texas,

Thank you so much for the big welcome party you threw for the first day of spring! Pea-sized hail, 40mph winds, and now 43 degrees. Please be a little more forgiving tomorrow morning during my 3 1/2 hour bike session as I am trying to enjoy my biking experience. I will be incredibly grateful!

Sincerely,

Roadrhino

Newtons1st - 2010-03-21 12:39 PM lol I have about 8" of snow on my car here, east side of Dallas county. 4-5" on the ground. It was a big shock when I got up to swim this am. I had the dust the car off. Then got the text swim was canceled. 

Emmanem - 2010-03-21 11:55 AM So I've been giving this a lot of thought and I'm not sure I'm gonna do the triathlon in May.  I'm really not that confident in my swim yet and not sure that I feel up to an OWS without being really confident in my swim.  Also the week leading up to the triathlon is the first week of work for me.  I will have a training session in Raleigh for 4 days that week and I just don't know that i want to come back and immediately do a triathlon.  The wetsuit is another problem.  I don't really want to buy one yet and I don't know of anywhere that I could rent one.  There's a triathlon in Greenville (about 40 minutes from Clemson) in August that I had planned on doing anyway and I'm thinking this may end up being my first one since I'll have all summer to work on my swimming and prepare for it.  Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated!

bzgl40 - 2010-03-21 8:21 AM So as harassed I went on my bike ride yesterday.  I was a little worried about the pace they would set, especially since they didn't indicated a pace on the website.  Turns out I am much fitter then last year (not just the beginning of season, the whole year.  Thanks Jorge!) and had no problems hanging with the big dogs.  Meant a fellow Canadian on the ride which was interesting.  It's pretty easy to tell I am Canadian when I am in shorts.  Figure that one out.   Biking down off Mt. Lemmon was incredible.  You can see the whole city.  The views were so worth it.  I've driven it but this is different.  The head wind really slowed the decent so I need to go back up and try again soon when there are no winds.  The mountain looks worse then it was.  Normally on hills around Oregon I am looking for extra gears that I don't have and on this one I felt I could maintain my pace all the way. 

I should mention that the ride was part of Trifest that has been going on the last 3 weeks here.  When we got back from the ride they had the expo set up with all the different vendors.  I left the wallet in the truck on purpose.  Saw some pretty Zipps that would look nice on my bike (they had them all there), some pretty bikes, etc etc.  I left pretty quickly so that I didn't get in trouble. 

Today I have to do a long run in the heat of the day.  Ugh.  I made a promise to go see some silly hummingbirds at some silly museum.  Yet these are live birds.  I don't get it...  The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is actually a zoo, natural history museum, and botanica garden all in one place. 

I KENOTT swim - 2010-03-21 7:32 PM I decided to select a pool swim for my first Tri (June 26th).  I hope that the pool swim / bar fight will be the right choice for my first Tri.  Since it hasn't happened yet I have no idea if this is the right choice or not.  I can't swim but 100m straight right now and I need 300M by June and longer distances for the open water swims I plan to complete later in the summer / fall.  I can't suggest to you to suck it up and do the OWS when I have made a different choice for myself.  I don't have a wetsuit yet and don't plan to get one until next year.  I can tell you that my plan to be in the pool 2-3 times a week is the only way any of my plans are going to happen this year.  If swimming is your weakness you have to swim more.

Emmanem - 2010-03-21 8:10 PM I've got swimming on the workout schedule monday wednesday and friday now.  The tri in may is a 750m swim which I am nowhere near able to do right now.  The one in august is 500 and in the pool which is making it look way more appealing for my first tri right now. Good luck with your swimming!

Emmanem - 2010-03-21 12:55 PM So I've been giving this a lot of thought and I'm not sure I'm gonna do the triathlon in May.  I'm really not that confident in my swim yet and not sure that I feel up to an OWS without being really confident in my swim.  Also the week leading up to the triathlon is the first week of work for me.  I will have a training session in Raleigh for 4 days that week and I just don't know that i want to come back and immediately do a triathlon.  The wetsuit is another problem.  I don't really want to buy one yet and I don't know of anywhere that I could rent one.  There's a triathlon in Greenville (about 40 minutes from Clemson) in August that I had planned on doing anyway and I'm thinking this may end up being my first one since I'll have all summer to work on my swimming and prepare for it.  Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated!

roadrhino - 2010-03-20 10:39 PM Dear Texas,

Thank you so much for the big welcome party you threw for the first day of spring! Pea-sized hail, 40mph winds, and now 43 degrees. Please be a little more forgiving tomorrow morning during my 3 1/2 hour bike session as I am trying to enjoy my biking experience. I will be incredibly grateful!

Sincerely,

Roadrhino

bzgl40 - 2010-03-21 9:21 AM So as harassed I went on my bike ride yesterday.  I was a little worried about the pace they would set, especially since they didn't indicated a pace on the website.  Turns out I am much fitter then last year (not just the beginning of season, the whole year.  Thanks Jorge!) and had no problems hanging with the big dogs.  Meant a fellow Canadian on the ride which was interesting.  It's pretty easy to tell I am Canadian when I am in shorts.  Figure that one out.   Biking down off Mt. Lemmon was incredible.  You can see the whole city.  The views were so worth it.  I've driven it but this is different.  The head wind really slowed the decent so I need to go back up and try again soon when there are no winds.  The mountain looks worse then it was.  Normally on hills around Oregon I am looking for extra gears that I don't have and on this one I felt I could maintain my pace all the way. 

I should mention that the ride was part of Trifest that has been going on the last 3 weeks here.  When we got back from the ride they had the expo set up with all the different vendors.  I left the wallet in the truck on purpose.  Saw some pretty Zipps that would look nice on my bike (they had them all there), some pretty bikes, etc etc.  I left pretty quickly so that I didn't get in trouble. 

Today I have to do a long run in the heat of the day.  Ugh.  I made a promise to go see some silly hummingbirds at some silly museum.  Yet these are live birds.  I don't get it...  The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is actually a zoo, natural history museum, and botanica garden all in one place. 

sma777 - 2010-03-22 8:34 AM Don't throw in the towel just yet. I was in your shoes for my first TRI and could barely swim the distance in a pool never mind OWS. On top of that the TRI was an ocean swim on a windy day with lot's of chop. When I got the the first buoy there were 2 guys hanging on for dear life and it made me question my sanity. I swam the distance with freestyle and sidestroke just to get back to shore. I made it and it was awesome. You can do it too!!

WRT the wetsuit, you can checkout some online wetsuit rental companies. They'll ship them to you prior to your event to give you time to check the fit and take it out for a couple of training swims.

roadrhino - 2010-03-22 9:03 AM I agree...don't give in just yet! It's still about 2 months out and that is a lot of prep time. Trust me, when I was prepping for my first sprint a year ago, I was uncertain of my ability (overall) to complete the distances. It's amazing what can happen in a month of training, much less two...and if you train with any regularity, you are probably more prepared than you think.

I think I remember you mentioning it was a lake OWS...bonus! You shouldn't have to deal with any insane chop or currents. Plus, it should be relatively warm by that point, too. Check around on wetsuit rentals, definitely a good option. And as far as your job training the week prior, it won't affect you as long as you train consistently now...it's the base you build that will get you through the tri, not 2 or 3 days of individual workouts.