Famelec Brian's Mentor Group - FULL (Page 6)

There is an elite coach that lives in my town and he has a blog look up his "free training program" on his website----------he has a very detailed swim workout that I may follow once I rejoin a gym with a pool. Google Coach Chuckie V and to the right margin click on his training plans.

And NO-------not everyone in my town or even California looks like him, in fact he looks very normal currently, I see him at the grocery store all the time. I have never actually approached him, as I am still a "closet triathlete".   on an even MORE side note , Bo Derek lives in my town as well, and it is really weird the few times a year my husband and I go out to dinner , she always is at the same place, which has my husband convinced Bo is stalking him

Back to this chuckie V he and the elite triathletes blog their daily workouts if you need someone to live vicariously thru.

Hi All, I feel a little differently about motivation for tri's, having played rugby which is a team game and you are reliant of your team mates as much as yourself, I am looking forward to participating in a sport in which I am not reliant on anyone apart from myself, and this excites and motivates me.

This website, its blog, training log and nutrition log all motivate me as I feel very rewarded by reviewing what I have done, ate noted etc and I look forward to working out to put down on here what I have done, and then reviewing how it compares to what I have done in the past. I am a bit of a statto and do like to record my training and analyse it.

I bought the Garmin 310xt which is an excellent bit of kit, and at a pricey £240 I must use it to get  my moneys worth, I am finding that I look forward to strapping it on and recording my sessions (although I do feel a bit self corneous about wearing it in the pool or spinning)

I have a friend who is training for a half ironman, he has only ever done 1 sprint tri before but he is a sporty fit person and will be fine with it. We speak about 3 times a week and talk about what we have done training wise etc and swap ideas etc, this is also a real help. We have not done any training sessions together but do plan to cycle together and he is about 6 months ahead of me with swimming so were going to do some pool time together and hopefully I pick up some tips.

I like to set myself challenges in life and playing rugby was one of them, doing a local 10k race, doing the great south run (10mile race). Tri's have always been on my radar but I never really did anything about it until now and that was because rugby takes up so much time, but I am phasing out of it now and so the time for tri training is no real difference to my rugby time in the past.

I find that telling people what my goals are motivates me because I don’t want to be seen as a person who does not follow through on their word.

If there are any psychologists out there you could probably build up a good profile of me from all of that ! lol !!

Brian

Running goals were met in January, but the swimming lacked.  Sat down last night and took the calendar with the training programs I want to use, and counted backwards from race day on the marathon, and three tri's.  It landed perfectly with February, so I will be kicking it up another notch.  By doing this, I found that I will do two of the tri's the weekend BEFORE I travel to Vegas and Ohio, so hopefully the recovery will be quick so I can get on the plane.  I hate being tight when flying.  The last week of Feb, I have to go to Chgo for work, but have already planned to use the pool.  I'll probably be the only one in it. :-)

Back to running. . . finding that I can move up another level here as well.  Getting faster and stronger to go longer.  That to me is huge. Especially for the long distances I will need later in the year. 

Deb

Quincy we are all waiting for your response to Brian's question about San Francisco.....do alot of people just walk the course? I'm starting to wonder if I could actually show up for than one (fully dressed) and run/walk it by that time I should be able to run a 5k so if lots of people are walking it may be worth the drive up. I am trying to get my sister to meet me in SF later in the month for a running clinic for "CHI RUNNING".

I more that met my weight loss goal for January, and at the beginning of the month I did not plan to start this scheduled run program so looking back I managed to train on either running, core or bike at least three days a week, but I did let outside events interfere with planned exercise usually when it was needed the most. So this next month, I do not have any expectation to push goals , but to maintain consistency and to think if training as a reward and not a punishment (in other words, see it as a tool for stress relief not the first thing to skip when the going gets tough. Rewarded myself with a bike computer so I will get off the spin bike and get outside.  kristen