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Did my second swim of the week. Felt pretty good. Not offical weigh in day but down to 202. 7lbs down and 22 to go for my weight goal.

Ordered me some new rims and tires for my bike. I told myself I can't use them until I get down to 190 as a reward.

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That is awesome.  Can't wait to hear more througout the year.  Budda is coming down here to Fl for a visit in the area.  He might stop by and we'll go for a run.  Pics and audio to follow ifhe makes it over here.

Kelley and I saw a 14 foot aligator on the bank of a retention pond only a 100 feet from the trail we road yesterday.  BIG sum-*****.  Looked hungry.

 T

Already figured it out. Found this product. http://www.trisports.com/maflspwhma.html. Made for flat spokes.

Worked out late this afternoon. Found it hard to get motivated to run after doing some lifting. Only ran 2 mile today. Plan on swimming tomorrow morning and maybe running again.

Hope everyone is finding the time to work out and staying warm.

Official weigh in today. 201. Eleven more pounds till I can use my new rims which came in yesterday. Look nice on the bike. Wish it was warmer, I might break my weight goal and go ride them.

Well gang,

I'm off to my 1st duathlon tomorrow.  First race of the season and my first race ever in a duathlon.  Chilly Willy Duathlon at Fort Desoto.  I am nervous as all get up.  Wish me luck.  Hope all the regular stuff has held up....carbed up the past couple of days.  Easy on the workouts, good sleep, mentally prepare.  Yadda yadda yadda.

Budda, Hope to see you Tuesday?  Can you drive up to New Port Richey? GREAT running a cycling trail her called the Suncoast Trail.

 -Tyler

Had a great time with George (aka Budda) on a run yesterday in New Port Richey, FL.  It rained like crazy then the sun came out and was beautiful.  We jogged a nice 4.25 mile run in 50 min.   Nice smooth 11:50 pace.

I gave Budda my entire IM Dvd collection.  He's going to watch them and then send the dvd's to the others. 

 -Tyler

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After a fot of snow in the past two days I was finally able to get a workout in. I now have a trainer that my brother gave me when he upgraded. So on the first trial I only did 20 min. Need to figure out how much tention to put on it. Will also need to get use to the bordom aspect.

Went to the pool and did my laps. Think I am finally figuring out my stroke. I am under 2 min per hundred and that an inprovement of about 20 sec. Of course this is only doing 200 straight and 100 intervals. But I am well under the 2:00 min. mark. Feeling good right now. Picked up some pointers from watching a catch drill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvtuHya40g from another posting. Not doing as much drag.

Found my new first race of the year. Dumping the duathlon and starting with a tri a week later.

http://www.hfpracing.com/races/TriForJoe/index.php

In vegas!  How can I run...but I must    Going for an early morning run somewhere in  Vegas in the AM.  Staying at the Monte Carlo.

 Budda- Sure I can talk about that.  I think what was instrumental in my "success" is that I never over did it.  I still don't.  Knock on wood (knock knock) Since starting this I have been relativly injury free.  Of course I have had the usual soreness, tightness, pulled muscles etc...  but never have I been injured where I had to take time off or seek real medical attention from some injury related to tri training.

That said...When I decided to get up of the couch and do something about health and weight I didn't just get on treadmill and start to run or jog.  It took some time.   I set out to just get up do something.  So if I only managed a 20 minute walk on the tread and some light weight lifting that was ok with me.  The strength slowing increased, the endurance came and one day I tried to jog for 20 min straight.  I think I doing about 4.7 mph. 

From there I just did what I could manage without overexerting myslef to the point where I thought I could injure myself.  I usually feel great after a workout, better then I did prior to starting the workout.  If you feel like a pile jello or mush after a workout then you really didn't do it properly.  You probably over exerted or spent too much time on it then you should have.

Budda- I think you did spectacular on our 50 min jog the other day.  Tell me if I'm wrong, but I got the impression that you where a little surprised about how slow we started out and how slow we mantained that whole run.

I personally think these things are the most important to remember while training:

1. Not over-exerting or over extending (time) yourself. When you think you should stop doing what your doing...it's time to stop.  Save the crawling for race day.

2. Diet

3. Rest

I began many diets, excercise programs, and New Year resolutions that went no where fast because I didn't see results right away.  Remember that if your a person that is trying to take off the pounds as a goal, never forget that the weight didn't go on over night.  It sure isn't going to come off overnight.  When I was 20 I weighed about 150.  When I was 30 I weighed 200.  50 pounds in 10 yrs.  Don't expect to lose 50 pounds in 10 weeks.  It's unrealistic.  Set and shoot for small obtainable goals and you'll go very far.

This also goes to performance.  Speed is both a natural thing and also a trainable feature in a athlete.  But behind good genetics, it takes a long time to build speed.  Work more on the endurance and the speed will come with time.

 -T