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Hi my name is Bill and I would like to join your tri-mentor group.  I like that you have experience across the board with various distances in multisport. Since my goal is to work my way up to doing full and my dream to do Maui, I feel I could benefit from your experience.

I am a late bloomer…I decided to compete in my first triathlon at age  57  I have done two tri's in the past during the 2005 season with the Leukemia charity group Team in Training.  I struggled during my training season because of developing bronchitis. I raced with difficulty but completed each race by pure determination for those who fight leukemia on a daily basis and never give up. So I was not going to quit fighting either.

   I had plan to continue my quest the following year, but decided to returned to school. My workload was to great to fit in any tri-training the first year. The next year I started training. I had plan to race in the St Anthony Olympic distance triathlon. The day I was going to sign up I was involve in a auto accident in which I ended up tearing my right rotator cuff in two places. I went through rehab but still had to much pain to be able to compete even the next year. At that point I decided to have corrective surgery, but had to wait because of ongoing litigation. That summer I had the surgery and rehab and started to train for the 2009 race which I signed up for. Maybe I am not suppose to run this race because have way through I developed bronchitis again. I withdrew this time since I had the option to freeze my entry to this year.  The race is on May 1, 2011. I am considering doing a local sprint race two weeks before hand.

 I have started my pre-conditioning training two weeks ago and I am slowly picking up the pace. I will start my swimming this week, I am a couple of days behind because I had a fall with my bike this weekend after a ride and have road burn on my knee. I decided to wait a couple of days before getting into the pool because it was pretty raw. Today will be my first day.

 Swimming is definitely my weak leg of the race. I struggle all the time with it. I need to improve my breathing technique because I find myself dead in the water to the point of hyperventilating. Any advice that you can share with me here would be helpful. Your swimming experience is another reason I pick you as a mentor.

 I am in the process of updating my profile and logs on BT so you can look at them and make suggestion with my training. I have about twenty pounds to lose. I am confident that I can do this since I have been a certified personal trainer in the past. I am pretty good with wait loss management and nutrition. I will have to figure my nutritional needs in for this type of rigorous training while still achieving my weight loss goals.

  am totally looking forward to working with you and any advice that you may have would be deeply appreciated. I know as a personal trainer that having someone to motive and guide you is most valuable when trying to achieve any type of physical or athletic goals. Like they say “Dream with out a plan is nothing but a dream!”

Looking forward to working with you,
Bill Pickert
Member ID billyd36

I'm new...and interested in joining the group too...no time to get othere details up now, but I'll post some more details soon.

Short story--have done some running races (15k, 1/2), and a couple of cycling events, but looking to try my hand at a tri this summer.

Ginny

Welcome to BT Melissa, it looks like you have a great start to triathlons!

Welcome to BT Ginny!

Welcome to BT Sara!

The thing about running is, that if you keep it aerobic, it is a lot easier and much more pleasureable.  I'm much like you though, if I don't have a reason to workout, I find it hard to get the motivation.

Do you have any background in swimming and biking and have you picked a training program yet? 

Also, having a workout buddy is great motivation, but if you can't convince your roomie to be a workout buddy, you can have a virtual one.  I didn't know anyone in real life that was training for IM Florida, but there was a great people here on BT that I shared my training with that made it feel like I wasn't out there all alone.