September - Swim and Bike challenge for Fall Tri's (Page 2)

So here we go:

I'm in for the September challenge. I'm in Ohio - so guess it's the east team for me.

300 miles bike
300 minutes swim

This is huge for me considering I rode 104 miles and swam 55 minutes last month.

I LOVE a challenge!   Thanks for starting this one.

Sounds like quiter talk to me! :P

After reviewing the above numbers, I'd like to sign up for 20,000 m swim and 200 km on the bike instead. 

Thanks!

Can I play?  For the West Coast team!!!!!!

Here are my (conservative) goals for the month:

swim: 16,000m

bike: 480 minutes

Woooohoooooo go team!

Kicked off the month with my longest ride ever...I feel sorry for the other teams already!

Go EAST!!

I'm in!

Swim 20,000 yds

Bike 9 hrs

Game On!

I need something to get me back in training. and out of my apartment so count me in for

100 miles on the bike

12 hours in the water.  I'm based it on time due to mixing open water swims and pool swims.

My team will be Rest of world if one is form.

Sorry, but I'm going to have to back out of this challenge.  Too many critical family things going on and I just don't know if I'll be able to get out. 

Good luck everyone!

In for Central (Houston, TX)

Bike: 11 hr
Swim: 8 hr

Lets give it a try

12,000 meter swim

200 mile bike

Lynn,

Send me a PM.  For some reason I cannot see graphs of what you have been doing so far this year.  Explain to me your goals for the month as I see you have 2 tris's this month, not sure if you have taper plans or not...

Empty, I think you need to re-examine your goals! Training should be taking precedense over a house! You can even do some bike training on Sundays while you are hitting all the Open Houses, if you look at only houses with pools, insist on trying out the pool and you can get some mileage in at the same time!  Just some thoughts!

Hey all September Challengers!

First welcome to the challenge.  If your new to these they are lot's of fun and help keep up the motivation.

2nd, with the long weekend I'm swamped today at work.  Looks like tomorrow too but I will be working on the team list tonight if I'm still here, if not then tomorrow AM after my swim!

3rd, in the meantime keep up your training.  It's almost impossible to catch-up at the end what you should be doing now!

Training related: Yesterday I did ~1270 yards around islands in the Indian River Lagon and today I was chased by a dog on my bike.  Good thing I had the tri-bike out and not the MTB because this beast was snapping at me at 20mph, I peaked at 28mph on my getaway!

Karl Hungus - 2007-09-04 2:41 AM

D001 - 2007-09-03 9:51 AM

Karl Hungus - 2007-09-01 9:37 PM I have to bow out of the challenge, or at least the swim part. After my bike crash I am not allowed to swim for at least the first two weeks, and maybe the whole month, secondary to my wrist injury. I can still ride with my wrist in the splint but no swim for me. I am hoping to ride 300 miles this month (most since 1995) but I understand if I cannot participate in the official challenge secondary to not being able to swim. What do you think, Donto, should I just cheer from the sidelines and shoot for 300 miles on the bike or be the non-USA team "Gimp" and just log the bike miles? Buck

I vote that we let him participate in the Challenge. But I think he needs to BREAK that 300 mile previous record, as a penalty for not swimming. (insert evil cackle here.) Evil Dee

In a sick sort of way, I like the way you think I'll be doing a bunch of running as well but I am up for breaking 300 miles on the bike. I guess swimming must be everyone's hard point as I do not see any bike/run challenges (or am I just missing them?).

Buck,

Just sign up for the Bike portion, it's been done before to do only 1/2 the challenge, so no problem.  You'll be on the ROW team, I think there's 3 or 4 now.