TAN 47: El CapiTAN (Page 24)

Welcome to your doom

If by Doom you mean easy bake oven then I am there already.

Hey Hulk,

Seems a wee bit quite in here tonight.?

Love the avatar

Hey do you train in Aikido?

I have a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and about 5 years of MMA training and have been debating getting back into it but kinda worried that those nagging injuries that always seem to pop up when training in MA will interrupt my Tri training.

Just wondering if you still train and to Tri's at the same time.

I did plenty of Jiu-Jitsu too, and was ALWAYS sore or injured.  From my neck to my joints to even my fingertips from grabing Gi's...  Never got past gold/yellow belt.  But I started that after getting a black belt in Karate...  I wanted to branch out so tried judo, Jiu Jitsu, and aikido.  They even had a ninjitsu school, but those guys seemed a little crazy.

Anyway, haven't done Aikido for about 5-6 years.  It's pretty gental, a little too formal for my taste (old school japanese).

But like you, I may go back to it because I know it's safe and I won't get injured for tri.  But since I live in Las Vegas, there are plenty of MMA schools that have major stars teaching.  Some Gracies, Randy Coutour, a Shamrock.  Some of the UFC guys train here to.  So it's really tempting to learn from them.  But kiss triathlon good buy with all the potential for injury..

I have a Krav Maga school that opened up down the street.  That could work.  probably not as big a risk for injury, VERY practical for the streets, and it would be something new.

Got to pay the dues to the tri gods tonight...  and I'm not all too excited about it...

Later..

Artemis - 2008-09-17 9:06 PM Howdy peeps.  I survived a 9 mile mid week run.  It makes me happy. 

Sweet - so did I! Or at least, I ran for an hour and a half, which was probably a little over 9 miles, at the pace I was running (faster than I will for the marathon - which is probably bad, but the LONG weekend runs I take nice and slow). I had some long uphills, but also had long downhills, so it probably evened out nicely.

Oh, and I went to Conte's the other day and they did NOT have the pink race number belt - I must order it online now.

My favorite cap from a race is pearly pink.  Course, I'm a girl. 

The swim cap I never got to wear at the Reston Oly is a pearly blue The ones they gave us for the OWS clinic were pearly pink, but we had to give them back, cuz they were numbered - it was how they were keeping tabs on all of us coming out of the water.

wurkit_gurl - 2008-09-17 9:09 PM

Artemis - 2008-09-17 9:06 PM Howdy peeps. I survived a 9 mile mid week run. It makes me happy.

Sweet - so did I! Or at least, I ran for an hour and a half, which was probably a little over 9 miles, at the pace I was running (faster than I will for the marathon - which is probably bad, but the LONG weekend runs I take nice and slow). I had some long uphills, but also had long downhills, so it probably evened out nicely.

Oh, and I went to Conte's the other day and they did NOT have the pink race number belt - I must order it online now.

Nice job on the run.  

Disappointing on the race belt.  I saw a black one at the expo, but I like the pink one more. 

Artemis - 2008-09-17 9:23 PM

wurkit_gurl - 2008-09-17 9:09 PM

Artemis - 2008-09-17 9:06 PM Howdy peeps. I survived a 9 mile mid week run. It makes me happy.

Sweet - so did I! Or at least, I ran for an hour and a half, which was probably a little over 9 miles, at the pace I was running (faster than I will for the marathon - which is probably bad, but the LONG weekend runs I take nice and slow). I had some long uphills, but also had long downhills, so it probably evened out nicely.

Oh, and I went to Conte's the other day and they did NOT have the pink race number belt - I must order it online now.

Nice job on the run.  

Disappointing on the race belt.  I saw a black one at the expo, but I like the pink one more. 

Oh, I am so ordering the pink one off the Fuel Belt website

Good Evening/Night TAN.