TAN 202: A bunch of rotTAN apples (Page 71)

I'm so excited! You recognized me! {MELON PRESS} Popeye

P.S. Toppage! Check out my toppage!

Yo, it's about that time

To bring forth the rythm and the ryhme

I'm a get mine, so get yours

I wanna see sweat comin' out your pores

I didn't know YANTI ever came back into TAN.  Hi there super ironman finisher.

I joined masters and have a stroke clinic tomorrow.

How can I, at the age of mid 40's, still be nervous about something like that?

I never been there, don't know who to talk to or where to meet, how early to get there, change before meeting or meet in the pool?  Plus what if my technique sucks or I can't keep up?

All that stuff makes me want a friend to hold my hand!

I'm not scared, but the unknown makes me anxious, STILL.

Always checkin out your toppage!

How've you been IronYanti?

i get this - i used to have no shame about showing up to a clinic or something all alone - and in the past few years i've become far more shy about that stuff.  weird, cause i'm not a shy/timid person, as a rule i REALLY don't care what people think about me, but that stuff still gets me a little nervous too.

but by the end of the day - you will be glad you went.  i've never had a bad experience doing that!

This morning I had my first workout with my new trainer. We did alot of work with the ropes! It was actually kind of fun and it wore me out pretty quick. We also did some TRX exercises since I have issues with my wrists. But the best news was my body fat % was not nearlt as high as I feared it was going to be.

I need to make that a goal this year, to get back into Track workouts. Multiple groups in town hold weekly track workouts and I've only been once because I was unnecessarily uncomfortable. Never mind getting lapped multiple times, I can handle that. But I was so slow that the entire group WAITED on me in a GROUP to do the neighborhood 2-mile cool down. Just watching and waiting until I finished the workout. That is embarrassing. But I need to get over it.

Haha you must not look at my logs
I do a run/walk and am slow. Slow but happy! 

I feel bad for newbies at my masters practice. We've got a good coach...

...but he is NOT friendly. He won't say hi, welcome the new people, etc. Not that he's mean, but he's just not outwardly friendly.

As a newbie, this would totally not be helpful, or conducive to me coming back for another session.  Not that I expect a coach to be all gushy and overly nice, but an acknowledgement of my presence and a conversation about my current abilities and goals might be nice.  And helpful.  

And a new bike!!  

Yup. I agree.

That said, nearly everyone at practice is experienced. I swim 1:20 pace and I'm right in the middle speed-wise. We want to get there, work hard for an hour, and get out, generally.

There's another masters group at the same pool that is way more beginner-friendly.

I'm back...  Meetings.

I dropped in as a guest in a Master's class when I fist started tri and there really wasn't a welcome "to the new guy".  It's like they expected me to just know what lane to jump in and know all the "rules"...

They would say "leave on the 45's" or similar and I was lost since I had never taken an organized swim thing EVER.  I just felt so in the way and a awkward that I decided to never go back and just swim on my own.  Worked out well enough.  I'm a decent swimmer.  BUT I always thought just with some tips on technique, I could be better and I'm robbing myself of that because I was uncomfortable.

Thankfully, a coworker is one of the coaches so I'm going to get a quick rundown of what to expect.  He may not be there today, but he has been talking to the coach.  PLUS, this is a clinic, not just a workout, so I'm sure there will be an introduction period and evaluation and conversation - not just jump in and swim per their directions.

Never heard of one so big it had to be measured in units of time. Zoinks!

.000000001 light years in length, woot!