CactusTri's Group -- RECLOSED (Page 3)

AndriaLL-Andria-Snowman Stampede on the 23rd of February

And my intro: 

I am a complete newbie.  I have never done a triathlon.  I just learned to swim in September, then had foot surgery in October.  Because of the type of surgery, and foot pain, I can't flutter kick and can only do breast and side strokes right now.  I can ride a bike, although most of my biking has been mountain and stationary as of right now.  I am just getting back into running after foot surgery.  It still acts up alot, and randomly so I can't really predict what will and what won't hurt.  I also have this nagging chronic illness which flares up here and there preventing me from being as active as I'd like.  I take meds that mess with my heart rate and I will have some questions about that and how it relates to training.

I was a martial artist for many years and have black belts in taekwondo and shotokan karate.  I gave it up this spring as I was required to teach classes (from 4-9:00 p.m.) and take so many classes myself that I had little time for my kids.  I decided to try triathlons as I live right by a lit bike path and belong to a gym--so I can train at night after my girls go to bed. 

So, that's me!  Nice to meet you guys.  I'll have to go back and read the posts so I can get to know you guys.

I think that's easy to do...the "reply" button would imply that you are replying to the person who sent the inspire, right?   I still do that sometimes : )

I bought a HRM recently.  It's too techy for me.  I can monitor my heart rate, but as for setting my zones, alarms, getting high, low and average data--plus data from previous workouts--it's too much for me.  I should have gotten something more simple.  I'm too impatient to read the thick user's manual that came with it so I just look at it every couple of minutes while I'm working out and note the numbers.  I also watch my resting heart rate--which is curious in my case (anywhere from 66 to 116).  I don't know what to do with that data yet....

Anyway, I tend to be old school/non-techy too.

Hi All,

Username: kim39....name: Kim (suprise suprise)  ...Next race is a 5k March 2nd and my goal is to at least run 1/2 of it, I am not the best runner, but am slowly working on it, I did my first sprint tri in 2005, it felt great but didn't train that well and then the following year I trained better but then got a foot injury which took  me out of racing for the year, last year I did do a sprint tri, with very little training due to life crises but I thought what the heck it got me motivated....this year a different story, life is going good, no excuses this year so ready to train and try to beat my time from 2005, which for me the hardest part will be the run, haven't found that happy euphorium for running they say runners get...  I suppose in time and the never give up attitude I can accomplish that.  So any running pointers will help me immensly. 

Hello everyone,

Well, I really just wanted to say something because we fell to page 2.  How was everyone's weekend?  I was faced with the all-to-frequent challenge of how to get my training in when my husband is out of town and I have the girls to watch.  They are 6 and 9.  I took my 6 year old on a 1 hour 5 minute bike ride on the tagalong.  (Big sissy was playing with friends)  Great workout for me, but I was worried about her falling asleep back there during the 2nd half : )

 Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well!