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Personally, I'd feel comfortable doing a HITS event.  I would plan to be on the BYO nutrition plan though.

Way to get out there!  This time of year, you have to take advantage of it when it's nice out!

Looks good to me.  The only thing that I would be concerned about are on the 13th and 14th of July.

Those are iron distance.    All your other events are much shorter in duration and effort.  

Oceanside is def my A race, because I'm doing it for Ashley and that is where my training is pointing (and because it cost 4X as much as HITS).

I like the idea of signing up for the HIM and switching to the OLY if needed. I will def BYO nutrition wise and maybe hydration too.

My SIL reminded me that the next weekend is the Bolder Boulder (10k). Possible to do both and just make it a Colorado vacation. We have graduations to attend up there that week anyway.

That is a unique way to try the 140.6 distances! I agree with Michael that you need to consider whether you will be ready for those distances. It seems training to complete those distances, even spread over 3 days, is going to look something like training for a full Iron.

There a few extra characters in your link.    If the events are broken  into parts during the day and include rest periods I would say go for it.   We have a local long distance camp that does it that way.  It' starts on a Friday afternoon and then ends on Sunday evening.    I've yet to do it but am seriously thinking about doing it this summer.    It's in July and our summers can be brutal.   100 degrees F.  are common.

With the rest period I'd say no problem.    

I think that the July events are very ambitious.  If I recall, you have been training since mid-October.  Will Llanelli your first tri Since you are asking, I would suggest the July Long Course Weekend events be one of the shorter options (70 or 42 on the bike and half marathon on the run) in 2013 and increase the distance for 2014.  

Also, instead of going sprint, sprint, long course weekend, Oly, would it be possible to do an Olympic distance event before the long course weekend or is there simply not one in your area in that timeframe?

This format kind of reminds me of Triple-T.  Kind of.

With Oceanside as your A race, I don't think that it will be a problem.  Just be prepared to give yourself some recovery time afterward Oceanside and again after the HITS/Bolder Boulder twofer.  To be honest, I think that I'd pick one (HIM or Oly) and stick with that but that's just me.  You have a very solid base going!

Richardsdrr - 2012-12-28 6:17 PM Hi Janyne. Thanks for the input. The reason I'm doing sprint, sprint to start is because the sprint on the 15th of June was the original tri that I was aiming to do. It's also the one I have persuaded my bro in law to do, so it has to stay as for the long weekend course, I have only just realised that I can book the events individually, and also they offer half distance for each event also. Only 5 pound cheaper for doing 70.3 instead. I'm a tight ars** Welsh man, so it grips me to pay almost the same for half the distance lol. But maybe it would be a good idea to hold off on that event at the moment and decide in the next month or two, just to see how I'm progressing.

Our local long distance camp is a bit more forgiving.  Just barely.   Here's last years schedule:

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Lake Guntersville Long Course Triathlon Training Camp

Friday, July 27

1:00-2:00 p.m. Packet Pickup:

Registration and Cabin assignment

2:00-2:30 p.m. Transition setup and transition

2:30-3:00 p.m. Transition Instruction: How to set up for short distance vs. long course

Instructor (Rick Greif)

3:00 p.m. Swim instruction: open water sighting/mass swim start(Kendrah Raney) 1000/4224

3:45 p.m. Group ride 24 miles 24/112

5:45 p.m. 1 mile run (easy) 1/26.2 4 mile hard run  and 1 mile run (easy) 6/26.2

7:25 p.m. Clear transition
7:30 p.m. Evening Meal at camp dining hall
8:15 p.m. Athlete Meeting in dining hall

Discussion of camp schedule
Panel discussion: The Road to Ironman
10:00 p.m. End of camp day

Saturday, July 30

6:00 a.m. Meeting at swim pavilion: Saturday training schedule

6:15 a.m. 1 mile run (easy) 7/26.2

6:30 a.m. 6.2 mile race 13.2/26.2

7:30 a.m. 1 mile run (easy) 14.2/26.2

8:00 a.m. Breakfast in camp dining hall

8:45 a.m. Swim 1500 yards

Swim instruction: open water sighting 2500/4224

Instructor: Susan Wilkens

9:45 a.m. Meeting at swim pavilion

Bike instruction: Instructor Andrew Hodges

10:15 a.m. Group bike ride 56 miles 80/112

Finish at Goosepond Colony

1:45 p.m. 3 mile run (hard) race simulation 17.2/26.2

2:30 p.m. Lunch at the Docks

3:15 p.m. Instruction: Nutrition for triathletes: Instructor Emily Hardin

3:45 p.m. Group ride 8 miles back to camp 88/112

4:45 p.m. 2 mile trail run(easy) 19.2/26.2

5:15 p.m. Swim 1000 m. relays 3500/4224

6:45 p.m. Evening meal cookout and music entertainment

Sunday July, 31

6:00 a.m. Meeting at swim pavilion: Sunday training schedule

Instruction :speedwork training

6:30 a.m. 1 mile run (easy) 20.2/26.2

2 mile speed intervals 22.2/26.2

1 mile run (easy) 24.2/26.2

7:45 a.m. Breakfast in camp dining hall

8:40 a.m. Instruction: Race Director’s race perspective (Instructors W.J. Wilkens, Mike Gerrity)

9:30a.m. Six mile bike to Goosepond Colony

9:55 a.m. Transition setup

10:00 a.m. Pre-race meeting

10:15 a.m. Swim warm-up 225 yards 3775/4224

10:30 a.m. Race: sprint triathlon (OPEN ROAD EVENT)

Swim 450 yards 4225/4224

Bike 16 miles 112/112

Run 3 miles 26.2/26.2

 12:30 p.m. Lunch and Awards

Yep - I am, but this race is in March - do you know something I don't know?    If we meet up at race start, you will officially be the first person I have met in real life from BT.  

When you say shake it up with a variety of distances, can you give me an example of what a 35 mile week would look like - including tempo / fartlek / race pace / LSD etc...?  

About 3 weeks ago, I hit my top week ever (34 miles) and want to build from there after my race.  In looking back, I see that I ran 5,13,5,5,5 that week....  The next week I ran 3,5,8,5,8 for a total of 30 miles (I intentionally scaled back a bit.).  Not a lot of variety there.    

I do almost all my runs at approximately the same pace (mostly low 8's, sometimes 8:25ish).  The only thing I want to add is that these runs are all on the same trail, and the trail has rolling hills.  I try to negative split most my runs, and usually do....so when I say that I keep the same pace, I actually work harder up hill than I do down hill.   What I've been doing has helped me drop over 1:00 off my average pace in about a year, but since I don't do speed work (I've never had anyone show me how) - I don't feel I'm reaching my full potential, something I want to do very badly.  I'm happy with where I have come so far, considering I am a self taught runner that couldn't run 1 mile on a treadmill 16 months ago, but I really want to reach my potential.

All advice is greatly appreciated.   

That's pretty awesome. Wish I had advice, but all this is new to me. So I'll just say WOOHOO...til I figure it out some more

I used to put my alarm clock on the other side of the room so that I had to get out of bed to turn it off. Most of the time this worked.

Another idea is to sleep in your workout clothes, the crumpled look can be a real fashion statement. This works best for a morning swim because then you dont have to get naked in the cold in the morning, which is only fun if you have someone to do it with

Off to the vet this morning to get one of our dogs "knocked up" so my long ride will get done on the trainer later as it is 105 in the shade here today. Scheduled for 65minutes so my goal is to break the 25km mark which will be a first for me.

After park ride with kids, I put in 12 miles on bike at gym and a really slow 900 meters in pool. Lots of 50m pausing after not being in pool for almost 3 weeks. I had been getting more comfortable in the water, so I feel like I'm back a couple steps. But I'm certainly not as bad off as I was when I started 3 months ago.

haha! Getting naked and cold is not fun...even with someone to do it with. Naked and warm is sooo much better. Probably why I burrow under my covers early in the morning.

Sadly, I see my warm and comfy bed being exchanged for frosty and dark roads in the near future. I have to make some sacrifices to get more running in

HOLY CRAP!!!!!   I go away from the internet for 1 week to play with the grandbabies, have a little thing called Christmas, go up north for a fantasy wedding, and you guys go from page 4 to 22.  I got up to page 7 and had to skip to the end.  Could someone just give me the clif notes version of the remaining 15 pages?

I did see that Tom (ponderingfox) is doing Hawk I Tri in June.  I just want to say that is my FAVORITE tri.  It holds a special place in my heart because I lost my tri-virginity there in 2008.

How is everyone doing with their jogo minutes?   I have been a very bad girl.  I haven't been tracking anything but in my defense, I have an 11 month old, 2 and 6 year old visiting from New Mexico and it is all I can do to keep up with the balls of energy and have not made an attempt to get out and train.  I just want to spend time playing.  Out of all the fun toys that the g-babies got for Christmas, their favorite is my big exercise ball that I sit on at my computer, so I can't visit very often because my "chair" is always missing.  I have had them rolling and doing crunches and v-leg lifts with the ball.  They are getting into shape, even if I am not. 

Has anyone talked about resolutions/commitments yet?   Its getting to be that time of year to put the jogo December challenge to rest and start talking about what commitments we are making to ourselves.  

I am doing a "Commitment Day" 5k at Ford Field in Detroit on Jan. 1.   I have to figure out what I want to commit to for a healthy lifestyle.