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tri-chic - 2009-12-19 9:44 AM

You guys can rub it in, in August but right now we are expecting sunny and 65-68 for the next couple of days.  Rode outside for the first time in weeks yesterday and it was BEAUTIFUL!  Get those videos out.

Reno8 - 2009-12-19 9:44 AM

Great job on the run today....send some of that warm weather east to the Atl. my friend.

BTW....LOVE the Christmas With the Family song in your sig line....reminds me of my childhood. 

Steve

Terps421 - 2009-12-19 10:44 AM

awesome job getting it in!  mental training to!!!

AF_SGT - 2009-12-19 2:05 PM I was just notified that I was selected from the Alcatraz lottery, now I need to talk with the wife and see what she says.

Anyone else?

icky43 - 2009-12-19 4:42 PM

I never left a bio, and I'm sorry about that, December has been a rough month for me and my family.  I have lost two of my grandfathers within a week of each other.  I loved them both and will miss them greatly.  But as I sat at their funerals I came to the realization that life needs to be lived deliberately and so here I am.  I have looked at this site for a year now reading the articles and look at the training plans and wishing.  Time for the wishing to end, I will complete a tri this year.  I'm 31 years old, married with 3 kids.  My oldest is a 9 year girl who loves soccer and I love being her coach, my 5 year is a boy, and a 2 year girl.  I was active in sports all my life, focusing on football through high school but when high school ended so did the activity. 

I have entered a half-marathon in May, and have signed up for swimming lesson starting in Jan. with hopes to do a sprint sometime in June.

icky43 - 2009-12-19 4:42 PM

I never left a bio, and I'm sorry about that, December has been a rough month for me and my family.  I have lost two of my grandfathers within a week of each other.  I loved them both and will miss them greatly.  But as I sat at their funerals I came to the realization that life needs to be lived deliberately and so here I am.  I have looked at this site for a year now reading the articles and look at the training plans and wishing.  Time for the wishing to end, I will complete a tri this year.  I'm 31 years old, married with 3 kids.  My oldest is a 9 year girl who loves soccer and I love being her coach, my 5 year is a boy, and a 2 year girl.  I was active in sports all my life, focusing on football through high school but when high school ended so did the activity. 

I have entered a half-marathon in May, and have signed up for swimming lesson starting in Jan. with hopes to do a sprint sometime in June.

icky43 - 2009-12-19 5:00 PM I'm from Logan, UT.  It's about 80 miles north of Salt Lake City.  Any advise on which training plan to use for a sprint?

icky43 - 2009-12-19 4:42 PM

I never left a bio, and I'm sorry about that, December has been a rough month for me and my family.  I have lost two of my grandfathers within a week of each other.  I loved them both and will miss them greatly.  But as I sat at their funerals I came to the realization that life needs to be lived deliberately and so here I am.  I have looked at this site for a year now reading the articles and look at the training plans and wishing.  Time for the wishing to end, I will complete a tri this year.  I'm 31 years old, married with 3 kids.  My oldest is a 9 year girl who loves soccer and I love being her coach, my 5 year is a boy, and a 2 year girl.  I was active in sports all my life, focusing on football through high school but when high school ended so did the activity. 

I have entered a half-marathon in May, and have signed up for swimming lesson starting in Jan. with hopes to do a sprint sometime in June.

ashort33 - 2009-12-19 5:13 PM

Others will probably chime in here, but I would go with the Micheal Pates 22 week and just sub your running plan in for the running on it...  The reason I say that is from your post you mention swim lessons, this plan seems to start at no swim experience at all and work you up to sprint. 

Either that or you could free form a little for the next couple of months and then jump on a 16 week sprint plan.  When I started swimming, I found the workouts on the 0 to 1650 plan worked pretty well in pushing my distance up - however if you have a swim instructor, I would ask them to give specific workouts for the next few weeks to reinforce what you are learning.  Biking is the easy part, so if you have a bike just go ride....  get your backside used to the seat...  if weather prevents you from riding outside and you do not have a trainer to set up inside then spin bikes (for spinning classes, not the generic exercise bikes) can be a good substitute.

trysprintolympic - 2009-12-19 7:18 PM

I've been MIA for a few days as my personal life got CRAZY, but I'm back now. And I'm back with a big a$$ promotion! I'm the only 27 year old I know with an Executive Director title. Kinda jazzed, kinda terrified.

Anyway, I have done zero training in the last two weeks as everything was going down. I will get back into it next week for sure! Tomorrow is my daughter's first birthday party and I will be too busy to swim/bike/run.

Can't wait for the virtual tri!! And that list of members looks great - I will post it in my blog ASAP.

Reno8 - 2009-12-19 5:58 PM I'm sure a lot of you just watched the Ironman World Championship.  Wow....Just WOW.  Very inspirational.

I really don't believe that an Ironman is in my future but the stories and the highlights are very motivational for me in trainng for the events that I do.

Steve

trysprintolympic - 2009-12-19 6:18 PM

I've been MIA for a few days as my personal life got CRAZY, but I'm back now. And I'm back with a big a$$ promotion! I'm the only 27 year old I know with an Executive Director title. Kinda jazzed, kinda terrified.

Anyway, I have done zero training in the last two weeks as everything was going down. I will get back into it next week for sure! Tomorrow is my daughter's first birthday party and I will be too busy to swim/bike/run.

Can't wait for the virtual tri!! And that list of members looks great - I will post it in my blog ASAP.

sarahswhere - 2009-12-19 7:40 PM

I'm kinda with you there.  If I didn't have a job maybe.  It's hard enough to train with the one I do have.  It's hard to do when traveling all the time, but the navy commander really inspired me.  I'll be doing the FL70.3 in May.

On a side note, I finished the book Racing Weight in two days.  Couldn't put it down!  Finally someone has the right approach.

icky43 - 2009-12-19 5:42 PM

I never left a bio, and I'm sorry about that, December has been a rough month for me and my family.  I have lost two of my grandfathers within a week of each other.  I loved them both and will miss them greatly.  But as I sat at their funerals I came to the realization that life needs to be lived deliberately and so here I am.  I have looked at this site for a year now reading the articles and look at the training plans and wishing.  Time for the wishing to end, I will complete a tri this year.  I'm 31 years old, married with 3 kids.  My oldest is a 9 year girl who loves soccer and I love being her coach, my 5 year is a boy, and a 2 year girl.  I was active in sports all my life, focusing on football through high school but when high school ended so did the activity. 

I have entered a half-marathon in May, and have signed up for swimming lesson starting in Jan. with hopes to do a sprint sometime in June.

Jeepguy2358 - 2009-12-19 7:51 PM Since my wife is out of town and have not had the opportunity to speak with her yet, I'll have to tell you, I just had the most kick swim workout today!  I am trying to really get my technique down and think I made a major breakthrough.  I don't know all of the technical terms of the stroke, but I used to use the "old method" and made a slight change to the first part of my pull and HOLY COW!  What a difference!  I swam 500 wu followed by 2x 1000 and never even got tired!  I could have gone on forever.  Next time, I'm going to count my strokes, I know it's much less than before.  If this continues to work, maybe now I can be a fast swimmer!  I bet it would feel good to be fast at one part of a tri!