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pic of new bike is in the wisconsin forums..............new bike thread

sorry.

I have 3 of the 6(?) tris registered and paid for.  Here's my tentative:

May(or is it April?)-J-Hawk Early-bird tri 

June-Lake Mills Sprint(?)
          High Cliff Sprint
          Elkhart Sprint (really debatable.  It's the Saturday after High Cliff this year...don't really want to kill myself)

July-SOR Sprint (I WILL lay the smack down on Lake Michigan this year.  That beyotch had her way with me last year)
       Tri-ing for Children (?)

August-Pleasant Prairie Olympic-will be my first olympic distance-yikes!

The ones that are bold are registered/paid for.  Funds will play a part in dictating how many of the others I do, or if I'm jockstrapping. 

You will find a lot of success in this sport is patience.  Thats what I am teaching right now.  Actually, questions and all that feel free to fire away!

Sensei says, "patience grasshopper, all will be revealed in time"

Sorry, I'm stalking this thread 'cause my mentor is MIA - something about wedding planning/sniffles/MU basketball/UW hockey/etc.....or maybe trying to teach us all "patience"....

"This is NOT an exhibition....we need total concentration"

JChristoff - 2008-01-04 12:51 PM

Force - 2008-01-04 1:23 PM

jszat - 2008-01-04 9:52 AM

JChristoff - 2008-01-04 9:27 AM Since is the New Year and you promised to wow us Joe, What is next?

You will find a lot of success in this sport is patience.  Thats what I am teaching right now.  Actually, questions and all that feel free to fire away!

Sensei says, "patience grasshopper, all will be revealed in time"

Sorry, I'm stalking this thread 'cause my mentor is MIA - something about wedding planning/sniffles/MU basketball/UW hockey/etc.....or maybe trying to teach us all "patience"....

See and I thought it was... "Shut your hole Christoff and get you az$ to the damn gym... Loser"

we are all our own worst critics in most cases, so the pain of you sitting on your lazy azz hurts worse than my saying anything about it.  im a sensei/mentor/overlord, not necessarily a cheerleader (ok, maybe sometimes)

jszat - 2008-01-04 1:21 PM

JChristoff - 2008-01-04 12:51 PM

Force - 2008-01-04 1:23 PM

jszat - 2008-01-04 9:52 AM

JChristoff - 2008-01-04 9:27 AM Since is the New Year and you promised to wow us Joe, What is next?

You will find a lot of success in this sport is patience.  Thats what I am teaching right now.  Actually, questions and all that feel free to fire away!

Sensei says, "patience grasshopper, all will be revealed in time"

Sorry, I'm stalking this thread 'cause my mentor is MIA - something about wedding planning/sniffles/MU basketball/UW hockey/etc.....or maybe trying to teach us all "patience"....

See and I thought it was... "Shut your hole Christoff and get you az$ to the damn gym... Loser"

we are all our own worst critics in most cases, so the pain of you sitting on your lazy azz hurts worse than my saying anything about it.  im a sensei/mentor/overlord, not necessarily a cheerleader (ok, maybe sometimes)

"Overlord" isn't the half of it...you should see this dude layin' down the law at the Donkey Training Center...what a ball buster!

(sorry, still lurking about, 'cause my mentor STILL aint around)

Force - 2008-01-04 3:03 PM

jszat - 2008-01-04 1:21 PM

JChristoff - 2008-01-04 12:51 PM

Force - 2008-01-04 1:23 PM

jszat - 2008-01-04 9:52 AM

JChristoff - 2008-01-04 9:27 AM Since is the New Year and you promised to wow us Joe, What is next?

You will find a lot of success in this sport is patience.  Thats what I am teaching right now.  Actually, questions and all that feel free to fire away!

Sensei says, "patience grasshopper, all will be revealed in time"

Sorry, I'm stalking this thread 'cause my mentor is MIA - something about wedding planning/sniffles/MU basketball/UW hockey/etc.....or maybe trying to teach us all "patience"....

See and I thought it was... "Shut your hole Christoff and get you az$ to the damn gym... Loser"

we are all our own worst critics in most cases, so the pain of you sitting on your lazy azz hurts worse than my saying anything about it.  im a sensei/mentor/overlord, not necessarily a cheerleader (ok, maybe sometimes)

"Overlord" isn't the half of it...you should see this dude layin' down the law at the Donkey Training Center...what a ball buster!

(sorry, still lurking about, 'cause my mentor STILL aint around)

who is this guy and what the f**k is he doing in OUR thread?????

 Now, now...be nice.  His mentor has gone slightly MIA.  We can share...we all passed kindergarten (I hope).

After looking at both plans, I'd say J is going in the right direction.  My concern would be, with the CF, to make sure you really listen to your body and peel back if need be.  If you overlap the plans, it doesn't allow for a lot of rest days, which may or may not be necessary.  You'll be doing a lot of 2 a days! 

I'm looking to set my mileage goals (yardage goals) for the year for the 3 sports...Last year my training was kind of sketchy, and didn't really start until March of last year.  I'd like to at least double what I did last year, but looking back, I think that goal is a little too easy.  I need something to strive for (plus I like putting little ticker things in my blogs.)

Here's what I'm thinking:

Bike: 1500 miles (I'm getting in over 100 miles per month at the DTC...I can do that outside, too, right?  That's what I'll have to keep reminding myself)

Run:  360 miles (30 miles/month...roughly 7.5 miles per week)

Swim: This one...no clue. I got to just over 38,000 yds last year, but the first couple months of swimming didn't include counting length because I couldn't make it one length without stopping 3 times to catch my breath! Hmmm...

Sounds like some very fine goals.  I would consider a time goal for your swims instead of a distance.  If you get caught up in distance you may focus on things other than form and drill work.  Those are the things that will improve your swimming.  You folks who are close to the DTC are very lucky indeed.  I would love to have something like that nearby.

Yearly goals:  Run 900 miles,  Bike 3000 miles, Swim 3x/week.

my thoughts on the goals are thus:  whatever goals are set you should have intermediate goals as well...........that way you have something to shoot for over a shorter period of time.  say you wanted to do 10,000 miles of something, say running (just for fun, i know) so the ultimate goal would be the 10 G's but should have something broken down for each month and each week as well....................also, when you start seeing the finish line in sight (the 10 G's) start thinking about what you want to accomplish AFTER you reach the ultimate goal.......that will keep the training on point and will diminish downtime. 

when i used to run before (used to be a runner, done a couple of marathons), i had goals set for 5K time, 5 mile time, half marathon and full marathon........once i reached the goals i had no other plan and well, i stopped running..................make sense or should i bable on some more, after all, i am good at that............

I think if you bump up the long run mileage on the weekend (gradually) and maybe splash in one more run either as a light brick or after your stand alone swim day, you will be able to get sufficient work in for a half mary.  Remember that you are also working your aerobic system on the bike so that will help things progress as well for the run.