5 for Fighting (Page 4)

morning you all! sorry i join in this late - better later, eh.

my name is antti asu, i live in bahrain with my beautiful wife and two boys, 2,5 and 1. we've been here for three years. i work here as an air traffic controller in bahrain acc (area control). i got into tri'ing year ago when i did a sprint - without any training. didn't go so well. so, this year i decided to practice too. first sprint was just last weekend and now it is time to change up gear a knot. time to buy a real bike. if you go and check my tri results, you'll understand why. it is really annoying to finish swim among first ones and then during biking everybody just flies by. darn, may i say!

when i signed up for this challenge, i thought i won't be swimming that much this month, but i guess i will anyway. so, i think that i will have to add up some kilometers for that part. we'll see.

 
anyway, nice to get to know you all! go 5forFighting!!!!!
 

I reckon a 45 minute swim equates to 3 pints of lager (each with a bag of crisps).

I think whats happening is the first week is a long week, so we dont need to fill anything out until next week.

being in hc team and all, i need an opinion on bike issue. my biking has always been on/off road kind of leisure biking. now after last friday i got green light from my wife to buy a racing bike. now, i need your help.

i have two actual choices  -  either trek 1400/1500/2100 or eq7. price would be same regardless the bike (2100 maybe a bit more). i'm large frame person, meaning not skinny, but not fat either - anymore, at least. 181cm (5'11' and some) and 95ish kilos, what is that, 200+ lbs.

i will be biking here with awali road bikers like once a week and rest would be with mountain bike or road bike on my own.

i hope i can do like 3-5 triathlons a year. they are planning for olympic distance here next spring.

so, what should i buy? 

Antti. welcome to the challenge.  Yes, this is a very international team.  I am assuming from your name that you are originally from Finland.  Go Suomi!!  Arrgh, my Finnish vocabulary is not so great any more!

Hope everyone's been having a good start to the challenge.  I've been posting a mini-spreadsheet in my blog each day, and here's a copy of yesterday's entry and my totals:

I've been taken to task on the "kissing" part of it...haha!  I guess I have to pick up the pace there a bit.  But the biking, walking/running, and sit-ups have been going great.

The Trek 2100 is a nice bike!  It comes with 10 speed cassette and Shimano 105 STI shifting system and would be perfect for triathlon and general road riding as well.  That way you won't be into a tri-specific bike which is probably not necessary.  You can add a set of triathlon aero bars to it.  I'm not sure how the pricing is where you need to get delivery in Bahrain, but it seems to be priced around $1450 US Dollars.  It has nice Bontrager wheels too.  With your weight around 90-95 kg (200 lbs) you will have no problems with that either.

(trek 2100.jpg)

My totals as of last night:

Do you want me to update this on a spreadsheet somewhere, or is reporting it here OK? 

Heh. You SO said a little behind. Nice workouts, too.

That I did.  Nice catch.... but I obviously wasn't talking about myself.

Whoa!!!  A Laura sighting...and of course, you can join. Anyone that can pull off a lime-green track bike is persona grata here, without question. And don't give up the kissing thing too quickly. Now's not the time to be hasty on such an important decision. 

c'mon mate, couple of kisses to co-workers is not yet harassing, is it? and there is always fridays and bars, brilliant for singles!

Well, I am from Finnish ancestry, my great granparents lived there (I think in the city of Turkuu) before emigrating to the USA.  My dad could speak fluent Finnish, but I think all I ever learned was the "bad" words...hahaha!!!

Let us know when you get your new bike, you will be amazed at the difference and how much faster a road bike is!

OK, I took advantage of the fact that it's a glorious autumn day, and that I was too lazy to change out of my tri shorts after this morning's weight workout -- so I threw on my bike shoes and helmet, and took a nice ride this morning.  And I added another 15.75 miles towards my goal. 

I figure I should go ahead and aim to get my bike miles in when I can, before the weather turns.  (No, I'm not competing for suckage points... not that we have any authentically sucky weather here anyway.)

Now I'm off for a short walk to the library to return a book.  I was relieve to discover that I'd mis-read my MIL's email saying she was coming on Monday... next Monday.  PHEW!   

You're already behind. Go ahead and get another.

Oooh.  I was wondering if there was going to be any sort of 5 for Fighting challenge within a challenge.

Could be. Go get another. Then recommend one.