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I highly recommend a massage. I just couldn't loosen up after that 10k and it really helped a lot.

Yeah, I kind of like food and have a drink now and again....probably not the best for training....

I emailed Mike Ricci about he thought it was safe to assume that my LT was 180. I used a spreadsheet off of his website to calc the zones. I actually messaged him yesterday and he said that I need to do another LT test for the treadmill because it was probably different than what it is outside. That's got to be the explanation, although I still think it's weird I was running pretty hard and I couldn't get my HR higher than the low 160's. All of my races and things that I do I'm usually way higher.

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!

My posting has been pretty bad lately on the weekends, so Happy New Year everyone! Be safe! I look forward to everyone starting the New Year strong!

Jeff

Hello, first of all I want to thank Donato for allowing me in this group and everybody else that's already in for sharing their space with me.

I don't currently live in the bay but I grew up in the south bay and I currently live in Las Vegas.  I am taking an exam on Jan. 11 in Concord as part of the application process for a job in Martinez that I hope to get before this summer. So I'm very interested in finding people in the bay area that are involved in triathlons.  I am currently in training for my first ever triathlon on April 22, 2007; http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1342404. It will be the sprint distance and I am very excited about it. I am self motivated but have VERY little knowledge of endurance training and it seems like this group will be a great resource for me. 

 I just quit smoking about 2 1/2 months ago and have been working out just to get back in to shape.  After about a month of that I realized I needed a reason to go to the gym, some sort of goal to work towards.  I was looking around online when I saw something about sprint triathlons.  I had no idea there were triathlons any shorter than the iron man events I had seen on tv so reading the distances involved was a great surprise to me.  I want to be able to say that I am a triathlete and that seems a lot more realistic to me now (I know I'll be cursing these words after crawling across the finish line on 4/22 but I will finish).  Swimming is definitely my weak point, right now I can't swim more than 50 yards without resting but I'm working on that 3 days a week and I'm not above doggy paddling in to T1.  The bike should definitely be my strong  point, I grew up on bicycles; dirt jumping my bmx until I was 19 and mountain biking in the Santa Cruz mountains and then here in Vegas.  Road bikes are new to me but I'm always confident on 2 wheels.  Running isn't my strongest point but right now I'm running twice a week and putting down 3 miles in 30 minutes so I feel like that's not a bad place to be at 4 months away from my first tri.

 I just got my polar s625x in the mail today (awesome xmas gift from my wife Mandy) and I am looking forward to doing HR based training rather than just picking a pace and going for as long as I can on my bike. Sorry for the long post, but thanks again to everybody.

 Jason 

..oh yeah, here's a little more http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=62607&posts=11&start=1

Gail, thank you.  I'm pretty new to this sight though and am not able to find photo albums.  I'm sure the link is right in front of me but if somebody could point it out I'd appreciate it.

Donato, yes my two goals for my training in the next month are to figure out heart rate zone training using my new heart rate monitor and to add bricks to my training.  I am working on my calendar, I changed my training program to the sprint - swim focussed - 16 weeks because that's more in line with my figuring out how to swim more than one lap at a time priority.  However, I'm looking at the program and it does not seem to have any days with both runs and bike scheduled, should I just choose 1 day every week or two that has a long workout planned (either a bike or run workout) and subsitute a brick for that?

Richard, good luck on your first tri in January.  I look forward to being that close to finally getting out there and competing.  As far as my bike skills go, while I'm very confident on two wheels, for me that has always meant larger wheels with knobby tires that hopefully weren't even touching the ground that often.  So while I'm not as concerned about the bike portion as I am the rest, I still have a lot to learn about road bikes, tri bikes (I actually don't even own either yet but I'm working on that) as well as actually training for endurance on a bike rather than just looking around for a fun line and bombing it until somebody in the group decides it's beer time.

I'm definitely glad I found this group, I think you will all help me on this journey.  Hopefully I can return the favor.

That would be great Gina, but I don't want to get to far ahead of myself I'm just at the very beginning of the application process.   If it happens though, I'll definitely be looking for riding & running places as well as training partners.

 Thanks,

 Jason