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Arden,

I haven't named my bicycle.  I ride a motorcycle and my motorcycle has a name, it's Olivia.  She's a beautiful 2003 Yamaha V-Star 650 Classic in Indigo Blue.  My husband has a 1989 BMW K100 and it's named Bertha.  It has something to do with some Grateful Dead song, which I'm not familiar with.  Anyway, it never occurred to me to name my bicycle.  My bike is green so I would probably give it a guy name.  Charlie just came too mind.  Hmmm, I'll have to see if it sticks.  :-)

Lisa

Jenny,

I'll take another look at the TI website because I definitely need to improve my swim and if I can't get lessons maybe this will help.  I have heard a lot of people say good things about it.

Carol,

I saw the 0 to 1650 program too and thought, WOW, I can do that.  I was fully intending to do the program, but using the backstroke.  And then all of sudden it occurred to me that you are supposed to do the distances swimming freestyle, with your face in the water.  And I thought Holy Cr@p, I can only swim about 25-50 yards freestyle before I need to rest and catch my breath.  LOL.  I am not nervous about the swim portion of the tri at all.  I can do the distance backstroke in about 15-20 minutes.  It just seems dorky with a greater possibility of going off course and more stops to check my heading.  So, if possible, I'd like to learn to swim normally but I still fully expect at some point, I'll be too winded and have to switch to backstroke.  That's OK, I just want to do the best I can.

Lisa 

Swam my second swim of the year last night...a 40 minuter. Endurance felt better than the first swim so that's good. But man, was I tired when I got home. I suppose it didn't help that I also ran before the swim. So I went to bed early.

 Question, I have a swim cap, but water gets in my swim cap. Is my swim cap too big? Do I not have it on right?

I have a friend who swims backstroke when she gets anxious in the OWS.  It was much easier to find her last summer during her tri in Chicago!!!

I know exactly where the College Settlement Camp is located.  My son's elementary school went there for a fifth grade field trip for two nights.  He loved it!

Arden,

I haven't named my bicycle.  I ride a motorcycle and my motorcycle has a name, it's Olivia.  She's a beautiful 2003 Yamaha V-Star 650 Classic in Indigo Blue.  My husband has a 1989 BMW K100 and it's named Bertha.  It has something to do with some Grateful Dead song, which I'm not familiar with.  Anyway, it never occurred to me to name my bicycle.  My bike is green so I would probably give it a guy name.  Charlie just came too mind.  Hmmm, I'll have to see if it sticks.  :-)

Lisa

lesleyann - 2008-05-02 3:22 AM Lisa, I took a TI workshop about 2 weeks ago and learned a lot! I am swimming with less effort, very smoothly (i think, ), and for a further distance than i was able to a few weeks ago. I still struggle a bit with breathing because they don't really spend anytime on that but I did recieve some help. Also look on there discussion forum for tips on breathing because a lot of people have this issue. The only thing about TI, it is that it is very tedious work with the drills. You really have to have patience for this method. I drilled for weeks and then went to a workshop and then drilled for another 8 hours there!! My issue was, i needed to start SWIMMING to get ready for May 18. So now i drill some and then go to whole stroke. They recommend you drill for like 4-6 months, and I mean mostly drill, little swimming. I got the dvds too and drill cards to keep with me at the pool but the workshop really puts it together. Plus they have now changed some things from the dvds versus the workshop. lesley

Lesley,

Like you, I don't have 4-6 months just to do drills.  My first race is June 15th.  But, I will definitely look into getting the program to incorporate it to keep improving.  It's good to hear positive feedback from people who actually bought and use it.

Thanks. 

Happy racing and training to all this weekend!

I just wanted you all to know that I took the giant leap with the bike.  I bought a helmet today.  The fellow at the bike shop was very patient with me and didn't laugh when I told him I hadn't ridden a bike in many, many years!  My son was also very patient riding with me on a trail next to our house. It was quite windy, which added more challenge for me.  I played around with the gears a bit...my son kept telling me it didn't sound very good. I just hope I didn't break anything!

Have a great rest of the weekend everyone!

See you on Broad Street, Jenny....run like the wind!

Sorry this has taken so long, work has been a bear lately. 

Here goes for a little about me:

Just went for my first bike ride on my bike in 2+ years (this week -- week 1 of training -- so far I've just biked at the gym). Pretty good! I'm a little nervous about my speed though -- went for 4.27 miles, took 18:33, so a speed of 13.8 mph. This wasn't as fast as I could possibly go, but it wasn't leisurely either. Does this mean a 40k bike is going to take me almost 2 hours? Am I going to be ridiculously slow on my hybrid bike compare to all the road bikes and tri bikes? The bike I have is a Trek 7200 Hybrid. It's about 4 years old.

 Here's the bike: http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/2008/bike_path/7000_series/720... (but a women's version and a couple years older)