2018 Beer Drinker Appreciation Society - Always Open (Page 44)

Merry Christmas Gretchen! 

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Dave!!  Good to talk to you on IM the other day, and great to see you here as well.  Still toying with the idea of joining you for the 2020 Dopey, but just need to get my 2019 plan set up.  Since the Dopey training takes up a good chunk of 2019, it would mean I needed to be mostly done with Tri by September or so, and round these parts there isnt much tri over the summer because it's too hot.

Gretchen - I haven't personally tried Zwift (or Rouvy or any of the virtual cycling programs) but I really want to.  As far as I can tell, it's combining cycling with video gaming.  It's not supposed to take the place of riding outdoors, but it is supposed to add life and drive to your trainer workouts.  I think it appeals to those of us who could easily lose 4 hours trying to level up or anything else video game related.  Not sure about Zwift but I think Rouvy has real video uploads of real routes around the world. So you can do things like visually climb Stelvio (with the corresponding resistance difficulty via a smart trainer if you have one), in place of that pesky 'having to travel all the way to Italy' thing.  Previously you needed a grand or more to get into a smart trainer, but nowadays Tacx and Bkool have them for like $300. Ideally for me this would mean my two weekday training rides would be indoors riding around the world, then my long ride on the weekend would be as normal.

Planning for 2019....I need a plan!  My 2018 went pretty much as I thought.  I stayed mostly in shape, running and biking while living in MA, then HM training (running only) once I got to FL.  The idea was that 2018 would be just that and 2019 is when I'm settled in the house and can get back to it.

Multisport doesn't happen much in FL between June and September because it's too hot.  It's like winter in the North, but the opposite.  In any case this means that half the calendar is between February and May, which leaves me focusing on May at the earliest for a Sprint.

Top item on my personal bucket list is a full IM by the time I turn 50. I'll be 45 this year, so an HIM seems like a good goal for 2019 esp if I can do it late in the year, which gives me enough time to learn to swim 1.2.  I struggle so badly with the swim.  Was looking at Challenge Daytona, put on by the owners of the infamous Challenge Roth.  It's pretty much in my backyard, adds the cool factor of swimming, biking, and running the infamous race course, and it's in early Dec so fits my plans.  Plus, not that there's anything wrong with the actual Ironman brand, but its nice to support the wider array of multisport organizers so we don't get stuck in a monopoly.  Plus at least this year in the inaugural edition there was a lot of star power - Andy Potts, Cam Wurf, Sarah Haskins, Meredith Kessler, Matt Russel.

What are the chances I can switch gears from HIM to the Dopey Challenge (48.6 over 4 days including full marathon) one month later? 

You've all probably found it already, but as I seem to do every year, I miss the transition from the old thread to the new one.  Here's 2019's BDAS:

https://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=553694&posts=69&page=1