Lumber Dad's Mentor Group - Closed (Page 4)

do you still have room for one more?

Ian
   I understand the soda thing. I have kicked everything bad ie... chocolate, booze, sex, tobacco, fast food but Dr Pepper is my nemesis.  Ok may be I didnt entirely kick the the sex thing   LOL  At one time I would drink any where from 6 to 10 sodas a day.

Still open. Welcome to the group Teri.

We want to help everyone and I am sure everyone will welcome you, you don't have to be training for and Ironman so don't be intimidated. So tell us more about yourself.
 

Hi Sozzie, Welcome to the group. Looking forward to helping you through your first year in becoming a triathlete.
 

Welcome to the group Rick. You would be a great addition, looks like your have more experiance that I do. Ultra marathons is what I am trying to get into this year. Let us know where we can help you. 

Sure we have room for more. The more the merrier. Tell us more about yourself.
 

Just finished planning out and importing/entering 266 days of training into my BT planned training log.  Some of the 1/2 IM and marathon training days at the end are kind of scary!

Put a new battery in my HR monitor yesterday.  I'm ready to go.  Bring on the new year!

Thats great    Ironman Lake Placid  Wow. I am debating Lake Placid or Wisconsin for 2012

Ian,

Awesome job kicking the habit cold turkey.  I have not smoked, but watched both my parents go from 2 packs a day to nothing, cold turkey.  Hard thing to do.  I am also trying to kick the soda habit, although I just drink caffeine free diet coke right now, but it still would not hurt to stop that either.

Great job getting your training plan set. Suppose I should look a that.

Diet Mt. Dew is my caffeine of choice. 2-6 a day. Had my last one with supper. Water and maybe some coffee or tea to take the edge off. Quiting the smoking I thought was easy, this time (2 tries before). After 2 days my son (now 7) said he was proud of me for quitting, and i never had another craving after that.

Hello I would like to join your mentor group. My name is Alfred and am a triathlon virgin! I am 44 years old and have decided to start 2011 with a challenge of doing a series of triathlon here in Western Australia.

As I am a non-swimmer, I am doing a Michael Pate program starting on Monday 3/1/2011. My ultimate goal is to do an ironman.

Cheers
Alfred

Updated list started by Eric(53epilot)

SCREEN NAME/REAL NAME

Lumber Dad - Lenny

Crea0029 - Pam

Monicamm68 - Monica

jsenc2002 -

Countryvoodoo -

Zombie - Ian

Wmcgee62 - Wes

Merriann - Merriann

Sbnebfan - Brad

Jcrrankin - Jeff

Gbswan - Erik

Serendipity - Debbie

McLuvin -

53epilot - Eric

dschmoyer20 - Dan

teristoy - Teri

sozzie - Shawn

rmwardjr - Rich

vipcc - Mike

zkaizen - Alfred

Edited by sozzie 2010-12-31 8:28 AM

I would like to join your group. I completed my first mini triathalon on Halloween and became hooked immediately. I completed 3 half marathons in 2010 and have set a goal of at least 3 sprint triathalon in 2011. Please let me know if this mentor group is still open

Happy to meet all the group members!

My real name is Debbie, for those keeping track.

well first of all i am new to forums 

i started doing triathlons last year . i was board and wanted to tri something new... so i went out and did a tri and ended up doing 4 of them last year

this year i am going to do the florida IM  so it is gonna be a very busy year.. i start the dominator on feb 28  and in the training this year will be a few sprints and oly.. and a HIM  and then then the IM on nov 5


Mike Walker 

Wow, thats great.  Are you a blogger, definitely want to watch how you do thru this season. 

Name:  sozzie/Shawn

Status: 32 years old, married to a very supportive, loving and beautiful wife. I work for a hospital as an systems analyst. Most of my work day is spend sitting staring at 2 monitors and typing.

Story:  I was a baseball player for most of my youth/teen years. Started off at the age of 3 and played till I was 18. Was on the highschool basketball team and ran 100m dash for the track team. Had to stop everything when I suffered a knee injury while snowboarding in winter of 96/97. After that I didn't do much when it came to sports. I decided to take up clubbing/drinking instead but I kept the athlete diet so I gained quite a bit of weight. I started running in Jan of 2009 after feeling lazy and alone because my wife had started her running in summer of 08 and because she was always training, I was always left alone at home. We've been running together ever since.

2009 Achievements: Ran 3 half marathons over the summer and achieving a PB every race.
Ottawa Race Weekend - May 09 - 2:25:30
Chocolate Half Marathon - Aug 09 - 2:11:35
Army Run - Sept 09 - 2:08:38

2010 Achievements:  Wasn't able to do much over the summer of 2010 since I suffered a stress fracture from running on ice while training for the Around the Bay 30k Road Race.

2011 Goals: I would like to slim down from 196.4lbs (as of this morning) to about 175lbs before September. I want to become a better athlete and I want to be proud of the work I've done to become that better athlete. And most of all, I want to be able to say "I'm a tri-athlete".

2011 Plan:
-Swim: I've registered and have already started training with a local triathlon swim team/class. We're training indoors for winter and we start open water swims in May. Once the pool opens in 3 weeks at my gym I'll be adding another swim training during the week.
-Bike: For winter I'm mainly be doing 2 spin classes a week since I don't have a trainer at home but I'm working on getting one.
-Run: Started running again at the end of September after my foot injury had healed. I usually do longer runs on Sunday. (12k+)

Note: My swim class is Saturday mornings and I will usually register for a spin class right after to get used to the longer training sessions before the summer. During summer, one of the local high-tech companies blocks off over 50k of parkways in Ottawa/Gatineau for runners/cyclists on Sunday. I'll then be doing a bike/run combo on that day.

2011 Races:
-Ottawa River Triathlon - Sprint Distance (06/11/2011)
-The Canadian - Olympic Distance (09/03/2011)
-Army Run (09/18/2011)

2012 Races:
-Ironman 70.3 Mooseman - Half Ironman (Early June 2012)
-Ironman 70.3 Muskoka - Half Ironman (Late Sept 2012)

2013 Races:
-Graham Beasley - Half Iron (Early July 2012)
-Ironman Louisville - Ironman (Late August 2013)

Mentor Group Goals:  I am hoping for accountability, support, encouragement, advice, good jokes and new friends from Lumber Dad's Mentor Group. I will be updating my training log weekly so please check up on me to make sure I've not fallen off the wagon and I will do the same.

Edited by sozzie 2010-12-31 1:18 PM

Welcome to the group Alfred. Being from Australia when does your tri season start?

Saw you were from Australia, now I can't get the Men at Work song "I come from the Land Down Under" out of my head.
 

Welcome to the group.  

Welcome to the group. I am sure with the help of the group you will be ready for an Oly.
 

Thanks Debbie,

I am trying to keep track of everyone on my iTouch. Looks like we have a full group.
 

I was looking at the different training programs on the site today and noticed 2 that interest me; the 16 week olympic - 2x balanced and 20 week olympic - 2x balanced training programs. One thing I noticed that bothers me a little is that the long swim and long bike are during the week. Does anyone see any issues in moving those around a little so it fits my schedule a bit better?

Day	Training
M	Off
T	Short Swim (30m~40m swim)
W	Short Run (5k~6k)
T	Short Bike (50m spin class)
F	Off
S	Long Swim (60m) & Long Bike (1x50m or 2x50m spin classes)
S	Long Run (12k+)

Edited by sozzie 2010-12-31 9:44 AM

Shawn, Looks like you have a good plan in place. It is nice to have a group to swim with, you can learn a lot.

I will try and keep and eye on everyones training logs.