MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--CLOSED! (Page 2)

You are MAD Manatees -- training and thinking of training during the holidays, then you're all at the right place. Thanks TriAya (Yanti) for starting up and holding down the fort. Sorry I've been remiss in chiming in. Looks like we have....

Yanti

Lynn

Carla

Floyd

Niall

Ryan

Mike?

Lagnar

John

Tanya

Jogo (name?)

Seems we have a smattering of experience and goals for the year. I'd suggest if you haven't set up some goals for yourself, both short-term and longer term, to take a few moments and set some. For example, you might say "I want to run 3x per week at a pace of 10:00 min per mile for 2 weeks, swim 2 x and ride 2x per week." And, if you have a race already picked out check out the excellent training plans on BT. I used a beginning sprint tri one for my first trisand it was great. If you're in for just a running event right now there's some other plans out there that are pretty good as well.

For now....WELCOME TO the MAD Manatees!! 

We'll be taking a few more brave souls daring to add their name to the MAD Manatee roster. I'm looking forward to getting to know you all and having some mean manatee fun and flipper fives.

Happy Hump Day!

Lynn

Welcome Megan! Sounds like you're motivated and you'll get it done this year. Great that your son will run with you. Mine isn't so motivated to run with mom....he's faster but I can outlast him!

All - My name is John, born April 6, 1966 in Ohio.  Moved to Colorado in 1998 for 3-5 year career item, but never moved back.  I'm the Quality Manager at my company (17 year employee - Aerospace products) and travel quite a bit - England, France, Germany, India, Malaysia, Japan, Mexico, Canada are primary points.  Might also hit China and Dubi soon.  Divorced in 2005 and still talk to my children's mother on regular basis due to both our #1 focus is our children.  I'm a very involved father - every Wed and Thurs overnights as well as every other weekend.  3 girls - 10, 12, 14 - with dance lessons, high school functions, etc.  1 girlfriend of 3 years who I got into running last year and she now loves it.  We will work out together with me on my bike trainer and she on the treadmill watching a movie.

First sport was racquetball - used to be nationally ranked for age group/level and sponsored by Ektelon - dropped this when I divorced (rough patch for me).  Re-initiated focus in 2010 and decided to start competing in stuff again - easy to compete in a 5k, so I did one in 36 minutes with minimal (ie - no) real prep.  Was disappointed since I used to do them in sub-30 minutes and started to train some as well as look for races to set as goals.  I happened to see an entry for a Tri (Salida Tenderfoot Tri - oly dist) and decided to do it.  Thought that why should I suck at at one sport when I can suck at three?  My second love of sports was cycling and I used to race bicycles in Ohio.  Never had a swim coach / lessons, but loved to swim (and did a lot as child). Read about Imersion swimming last summer and helped A TON - cut my swim from the 40 minutes to 20.  Continued to run and got a 5 k time down to a little over 26 minutes - not bad - 27% improvement in 4 months.  Did all this and did not loose 1 pound, but did change my shape - lost belly fat and gained more muscle.  Completed the Salida Tri in 3hrs, 20 minutes - SLOW.  Run and swim was as expected, but got my butt kicked on the bike (the one item I did not expect).  Was more exhausted from swim than expected and NEVER practiced a brick session from swim-bike, so did not know it would be so bad (plus - first 7 miles on bike was all uphill).

At the end of the season (Nov) I focused on getting down to a better race weight - saw a HORRIBLE pic of me at the Tri (have it posted on my treadmill as motivation and on my mirror next to bed).  Since then, lost 10 lbs (now my hips sink) and want to lose 10 more (get to ~15% body fat) by Feb/Mar.

I'm currently using the 8 week winter maintenance plan (believe it is that) and looking to change to one of the intermediate oly plans in the spring - time it for the Escape from Alcatraz (still can't believe I got picked for that one).  With focus is on weight loss, so I'm forgoing the pre / during / post training session calorie consumption recommendations unless it is over 3 hours - helps quite a bit (no gatoraid or hammer or gels or powerbars or... - just water).  Second focus is increased speed, so breakthrough workouts often (read this as pain in the a$$ intervals).

I never worried / considered not being able to finish, but just don't set a watch by my anticipated finish time (death before dnf - right?).

Another item is that I've also set a 21 day challenge to get up and work out before work (which means I'm up by 4am for a 30 - 50 minute workout) and reached 20 days before Thanksgiving hit.  With busy work / travel, the best (and often only) time to work out is before work, so I'm going to do this again starting 12/26.

Finally (I picked the life story option - sorry) I have already registered for:  Escape from Alcatraz (June ~oly distance), Boulder 5430 (Sprint - June), Peak to Peak (oly - July), Boulder 70.3 (HIM August), and Warrior Dash (fun - August).  I'll also do the Valentines couples run (5k relay with Girlfriend  Feb), several other 5k to 10 mile runs as part of triaining, with MAYBE a half marathon or perhaps a full marathon after my 70.3.  Ultimate goal is a full IM in 2012.

Think that is me.  If anything was left out or you want anything else, just let me know.  BTW:  Paypal account is: Triaintcheap.  Password:  sonomoney.

Looking forward to a GREAT year! - John

PS - Yanti:  your first pic. is attached - about 2 years old, but all I have on my work PC.  My crew and me during a hike near the national sand dunes.

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A modified version of plans from Hal Higdon, Art Liberman, along with incorporating information from Jeff Galloway; one thing I learned when I was doing triathlons was everyone is an expert but you need to tailor the information to your needs.

http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/marathon.html

http://www.marathontraining.com/marathon/marathon.html

http://www.halhigdon.com/marathon/Mar00index.htm

kalico123 - 2010-12-22 5:35 PM .... me! me! me! Pick me too! I would love to join your group if there is still room!

Hi from the frozen north!  I discovered the world of triathlon after loosing about 60-70 llbs and signing up for a minisprint tri in 2009.  I loved it and did a few more sprints this past summer - even winning my AG a few times!  Woohoo!!  
Then, (as some of my friends and family would say) I really drank the cool-aid and signed up of a HIM in July 2011.  I am soooo excited - but a little freaked by the running!  
I've lost a total of almost 100lbs to date, and would still like to loose a bit more but it's not really a huge focus anymore.  I feel pretty confident in the swim and bike portions - but like I said.... really have a lot of work to do on the running - and staying injury free. 
I would love to be part of this group and learn from everyone!
Oh... my name is Kathy, I'm a single mom of an (almost 20yr old) daughter who is off at Univeristy in Montreal now.... so I have LOTS of time to focus on my tri training!!

Welcome Kathy! Yes, that cool-aid is tasty stuff isn't it? Injury free running, now might that me an oxymoron? I think it doable, but once that mileage and intensity increases, one has to really put in the effort at self care. Do you have a foam roller? That was one of the best investments I made early on in my running.Here's a link I just found about self care for running: http://www.athletestreatingathletes.com/

Huge Congrats on your weight loss. It's not easy to maintain the loss either, so big kudos to you!

Great advice. I've used the Hal Higdon before and some other plans from runner's world. Yep, listening to your body and tailoring to your needs is the way.

howdy louise!

btw--you're definitely not a non-athlete anymore. i think the last two months attests to this ...