kaburns1214 and UHCoog's Mentor Group-Closed (Page 3)

Sorry about the home drama.  Always welcome.

Name: David

Story: Ran cross-country in college and built up to a marathon in 1992, but stopped running after I graduated.  Over the next fifteen plus years I gained more than a hundred pounds.  During many of those years I was wishing I could just get back into good enough shape to run a 5K two to three times a week.  Fast forward to 2011, I joined a MG and finished a C25K program, started racing and finished my first sprint.  2012 brought more sprints, an oly, 5K's, 10K's, a 15K, and my first HM.  In November I volunteered at IMFL and signed up the following morning.  Wait, I did what?!?

Family Status: I am married with a twenty-two month-old son and one cat.

Current Training: Finishing week 4 of Fink's Be Iron Fit intermediate IM plan.  Self-coached mostly because I can't afford a coach.  I have taken a few swimming lessons here and there to get periodic input on my form and things to work on.  I am focused on endurance, but happy to see my speeds slowly starting to pickup in all three disciplines.  I am currently averaging just over 2 min/100y, 16.5 & 11:45.  Most importantly to me, these are speeds I can hold fairly comfortably over longer distances. 

Planned 2013 Races: Already run a couple of HM's.  I'd like to get 2-3 oly's and a HIM before Ironman Florida, but nothing scheduled for certain yet.

Weightloss: Down forty pounds from 260 since late 2011, with a goal of forty more by late summer for a target race weight around 180. 

I'm teaching at a semi-out-of-town seminar all weekend and through next Friday.  I'm in a hotel with a really small pool, so it's mostly trainer and t/m miles for me this weekend unless the rain lets up on Sunday.  I get out early on Monday, so I will do either a long ride or run that day.  I just can't go long indoors. 

Awesome!  I'll be doing IMFL (for the third time) this November.

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cheekymonkeys1 - 2013-05-03 9:58 PM I tried joining in with you guys last session and then had a shed load of 'home drama' and became a little overwhelmed and ended up not being able to keep up. :-(

If you don't mind, I'd like to crash the party and try again??

Deb.

I'm racing a sprint in Maine this morning (its 35 degrees out right now).  Its a pool swim but the bike and run will still be on the cool side. 

But you get to wear fantastic hats for derby day!  Hats are cool. 

Here's the list so far.  We have room for a few more!

Scott - UHCoog

Kelly - kaburns1214

Michele - DDVMM

Kristen - enders_shadow

Larkin - Kidtri33

Matt - mleech77

Chris - ccmpsyd

Jen - jarvy01

Matt - Kuma

Deb - cheekymonkeys1

David - tdl1972

I have to share -- Mark Cavendish won Stage 1 of the Giro d'Italia today:

Congratulations, Kelly!  That's fantastic! 

What did you think of the pool swim v. open water?  Did it flow smoothly?  Did you have to pass people often?  Just curious because I've never done a tri with a pool swim before.

Congratulations Kelly!!!! Great job!

WTG Congrats!!

Pool swim was interesting.  The Bowdoin pool has 16 lanes so there were 10 waves with 32 people each.  The way it worked is that you split a lane with another person and did the swim, the got out and went into T1.  The waves were divided by seed time so everyone swimming at the same time as you had roughly the same seed time (I was in the 7 -8 min wave).  It was pretty much an ITT for the swim.  The bad part is that you weren't in the same wave as other people in your age group so you couldn't really race.  The girls who came in 1st and 2nd in my age group were in different swim waves so I didn't see them all day.  Made it harder to find rabbits on the bike and run.

WAY to GO!!!!!

Name: Katie

Story: I spent my early year dancing and was even a dance major in college for one semester when I realized even if I "made it" that career had no longevity and switched to premed.  While trying to divorce myself from dancing (which made me a bit of an exercise addict), I discovered the adrenaline joys of running.  Ran first marathon at 21 "by accident" (was with my dad... he had gotten me a number, intending for me to run the first half with him but I felt good enough to keep going and it was thrilling). Ran a few more marathons in late twenties and then few more in late thirties after kids. Then got the triathlon bug.  From the get go the idea of a HIM sounded amazing, but I thought doing an ironman was crazy.... well we all know how that goes, so in my third season (2011) signed up for IMLP.  It was just awesome.  That being said, I spent the better part of 2011/2012 dealing with chronic tendon injuries.  I feel happy to have recovered a bit more, but don't have any desire to go "full" again and signed up for HIM this summer.

Family: so lucky to have supportive husband and a girl, 11, and boy, 8.

2013 races: I usually just do one race a year: this year is Musselman HIM

2012 race: Escape from Alcatraz

2011 race: IMLP

Current training: I have never had a coach.  Used "Be Ironfit" book for IM.  I was doing more running this winter and really need to get biking

This is an amazing group (was in last mentor group) and the knowledge and generosity of Scott and Kelly is just super.

kr140.6 - 2013-05-05 11:51 AM So I did Ragnar Cape Cod yesterday: 192 mile relay.  We had a blast!! I was supposed to run 20 miles divided in 3 legs, but I got lost on one leg and definitely added one more mile .  Only one of my teammates had done this kind of race before, so I enjoyed kinda being a mentor to the rest. It took us somewhere around 28 hours.  It was very laid back.  It really is a trip to be running in the middle of the night with a head lamp. 

Awesome!  What did you think of the whole experience?