Destination MoP Group is FULL (of motivated life jugglers) (Page 4)

jcoble1209 - 2011-01-10 7:18 PM Hey! My name is Jennifer. 25 years old with a 3 year old and a new hubby who i'm trying to motivate to try this tri business with me. I played tennis in high school and college amd have always enjoyed running. I was a spin instructor in college but have found recently a soon bike is nothing compared to biking outdoors. Now I'm a nurse and I work 12 hour shifts which makes it super hard to get out of bed some mornings. I hope to complete atleast one tri this year if not more. And btw....after spilling my guts can I be a part of this group?

jcoble1209 - 2011-01-10 7:18 PM Hey! My name is Jennifer. 25 years old with a 3 year old and a new hubby who i'm trying to motivate to try this tri business with me. I played tennis in high school and college amd have always enjoyed running. I was a spin instructor in college but have found recently a soon bike is nothing compared to biking outdoors. Now I'm a nurse and I work 12 hour shifts which makes it super hard to get out of bed some mornings. I hope to complete atleast one tri this year if not more. And btw....after spilling my guts can I be a part of this group?

AKR18 - 2011-01-10 9:05 PM I'm somewhere between middle and back and totally cool with that. I still finish before every single person who never started.

juneapple - 2011-01-10 9:17 PM

That should be our group motto! 

StlPhil - 2011-01-11 11:04 AM Triathlon - swim, bike and run. Swim aarrrrgghhh! If I'm going to be a triathlete I must swim. My best intentions are to hit the pool and start swimming again. I'm thrilled. At least in my current sate I will be more buoyant.

Bike and lower body weights with a short run.

Phil

slow turtle - 2011-01-11 11:20 AM
Can we pay some one fast to swim for us

beachprof - 2011-01-11 2:28 PM Hi Stu & Heidi,
I'm new to triathlons and would like to join your group! I'm 47 (almost 48!) and in 2000 I decided to clean up my act and started running. I had been a college soccer player, but had given it up during grad school and then a crazy work life. So, for the past sever several years I have been running on and off, have done various races just for fun, with the longest being a half marathon last year. I started playing tennis in 2001 and that's my competitive passion. Running has been my way of getting into shape in order to not get hurt on the tennis court. Regardless, after a stint with cancer in 2003, I've slowly made my way up in the recreational tennis world and I love it. Meanwhile, last year I did a duathon (run, bike, run) and absolutely loved it and the past two summers I swam laps, but just for fun.  I've never done any race with swimming to I'm a bit terrified. I've just simply been too chicken to try a triathlon! So, this is the year, I signed up for a sprint tri in March so even though I'm on two tennis teams and play on two ladders I joined a gym and have been doing strength workouts, like TRX, to get my core more in shape.
I guess the main reason I would like to join this group is to get some insight into fitting all of the various types of training into a normal week with high work demands and a maintaining a happy home life! Right now I figure I can do swimming 1 or 2 times a week and keep up with my biking to work and then a longer ride on the weekends.
Hope you all can help!
thanks,
Joanne

beachprof - 2011-01-11 2:28 PM Hi Stu & Heidi,
I've never done any race with swimming to I'm a bit terrified. I've just simply been too chicken to try a triathlon! So, this is the year, I signed up for a sprint tri in March so even though I'm on two tennis teams and play on two ladders I joined a gym and have been doing strength workouts, like TRX, to get my core more in shape.

I guess the main reason I would like to join this group is to get some insight into fitting all of the various types of training into a normal week with high work demands and a maintaining a happy home life! Right now I figure I can do swimming 1 or 2 times a week and keep up with my biking to work and then a longer ride on the weekends.
Hope you all can help!
thanks,
Joanne

SportzVision - 2011-01-11 2:17 PM I have a short run tonight. 5K...so slow it take sme about 34 minutes to complete.  Going to have to do it on the treadmil tonight.

chapfallen - 2011-01-11 8:12 PM Hi.  I'd like to join your mentor group, as you seem like a really friendly bunch who are more about motivation than times :-)

NAME: Chapfallen / Rachel
 
STORY: Last year my husband told me that he'd always wanted to do a triathlon before he hit 30.  He told me this about 2 months before his 30th birthday (beginning of July!), and he also told me he'd found a charity sprint triathlon that he wanted to do.  I was working on my fitness for my new job, and so decided to join him.  We did the sprint in June 2010.  As far as I was concerned that was going to be a (very enjoyable) one off.  And then a whole bunch of circumstances conspired against me and by August 2010 I found that I'd landed up with a whole bunch of friends who do Tri's to almost every different level, and I'd accidentally joined the local tri club.  Still not quite sure how that happened...

FAMILY STATUS: Married (husband's in a different mentor group). No kids.  Two cats, one large dog. I try to take him running, but he's not the best behaved so he usually slows me down.  If the comment on my run says "with Barney", it's my excuse!  He's also the reason I have so much walking in my training log, but if I don't include the walking I start to wonder where all my time has gone, and it's all good for getting my legs up and moving.

TRI EXPERIENCE (if any): One sprint (june 2010) and one "mini" in August 2010.  I think I got the order wrong there, but who's checking?

CURRENT TRAINING: I'm doing the 20 week Olympic 2x balanced program, but having to fiddle with it quite a lot as I work shifts (I'm a police officer) and have a very variable schedule.  I go to the local tri club weekly swim and track sessions whenever I'm not working, but it works out I can only go about 3 out of 5 weeks to each.

PLANNED RACES FOR 2011: We're planning a couple of sprints in April and May and then our first Olympic in June, with another in August.

WEIGHT LOSS GOALS (if any): This is more of a new year's resolution, but I want to drop my weight by about 10kg.  Sorry to work in the wrong units - it's about 22lb.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE THE MENTOR GROUP WILL PROVIDE FOR YOU and WHAT WILL YOU BRING TO THE GROUP: I'm looking for a bit of extra motivation.  My husband's useful because we're training for the same event, but we have very different schedules (I work less days, but much longer shifts), and he's aiming to do more training than me, so when he ends the day and tells me about the long run AND long swim he managed to fit in it mostly just makes me feel bad that I didn't manage to do the same amount.  So having a group who are just looking at what I'm doing will be nice. 

I'm hoping to do the same for everyone else.  It helps to know that other people care what you've achieved today.  And finally, I'm in England, so I can post inspires for you all while you're all still asleep ;-)

slow turtle - 2011-01-11 8:30 PM

Welcome Rachel!
I loosely follow the training plan too. I try to get all the workouts in, but they rarely get to happen on the days they are scheduled for.
You're in the right place! Stu is better able to answer technical questions-I'm really the big cheerleader!