First Tri Season

Hi jessica,

I'm new too so just wanted to drop by! No suggestions from me...but good luck and I can't wait to hear how everything goes.

Katherine

Good luck. It's my first season as well, and I'm looking forward to finally jumping in after a few years running and a childhood swimming!

Hi Jessica!  I'm also doing Danskin this year. 2 years in a row. I was really happy to get in again.  I'm doing the St Paddy's Day dash as well.

Hi Jessica and Katherine

New this year too. Signed up for Danskin and Kirkland. welcome!

Karen

Here's my anticipated schedule (it's REALLY ambitious, so I don't expect to be able to complete everything...but here's to TRIing!) - where I note I'm doing stuff with my fiancee, it's gonna be real slow, because he has not background in sports except for baseball!

St. Paddy's Dash (with fiancee) 3/16
Tom Wales Memorial 5k - 4/26
Niketown 5k - 5/10
Moses Lake Tri - 6/7
Scotiabank Vancouver Half Mary (with fiancee) 6-22
Seafair Half Mary 6-29
Firecracker 5000 - 7-3
Seafair Tri - 7-20
Seafair Torchlight Run - 7-26
Danskin - 8/16
Sammammish - 8/23 (maybe)
Subaru - 9/7
Black Diamond Tri - 9/14
Salmon Days 5k - 10/5
Dawg Dash - 10/12
Seattle Marathon - 11/30

Wish me luck!

I was supposed to do Subaru last year, but I had a death in the family. I'm excited for it this year.

So sorry to hear that.  Will this be the 1st time you've done it? 

Yes! This is my very first season of triathlon. I am very excited!

It's such a great race. Little hilly on the bike at the start and end and the run is a little long for my liking but it was one of my fave's last year. The amount of freebies you get the day before the race at the expo. WOW!!!!   Amazing. 

i just checked out the Subaru and it looks tempting .... might sign up tomorrow...

i'm going nuts - started this whole thing just wanting to finish 2 tri's - now signed up for 2, plus waiting for registration for one more and considering signing up for another - scaring myself AND now I want to work on specific times - not just finish........

The 5 Mile Lake Sprint this June will be my first. I wanted to do a half mary, but I have to stay off tarmac as much as possible. I need to look into some trail races.

I am also doing 5 mile lake tri

5 Mile Lake was my first TRI last year...was a great experience. (edited to add: if you are talking about the Women only race, I obviously was not part of that. The course should be the same though and it was beginner friendly)


Welcome and good luck to all of the new racers this year.

I am a bit further away from Seattle than most of you (Silverdale/Kitsap area) so I didn't do too many Seattle events last year (Niketown 5k and volunteered at the Seafair Marathon).

Planned races for this year

4/13 Elma Sprint
5/10 Elma Sprint
5/26 Heart of the Valley Sprint: Corvallis, OR (hometown)
6/14 5 Mile Lake Sprint
6/21 Ft. Lewis Triple Threat Sprint #1
7/19 Ft. Lewis Triple Threat Sprint #2
8/2 Ft. Lewis Triple Threat Sprint #3
8/23 Ft. Lewis OLY
9/13 Ft. Lewis Half Marathon
11/30 Seattle Marathon

Being that I am in the military the 5 races @ Ft. Lewis are only $10 each...too cheap to pass up. I hope to plug in another event somewhere now that it looks like my wife will not be completely swamped with school this summer.

Again, good luck and have fun.



Edited by rickyjgo 2008-03-12 4:07 PM

Good luck everyone! Is anyone going to be at Moses Lake? That will be my first tri ever! I'm excited. But, coming from a swimming and running background, I am terrified that I am going to be the slowest person in the world on the bike.

I just got a set of clipless pedals and shoes last weekend, and when they got installed, they found that the frame of my bike was bent, so I am having all kinds of work done on my cheapie road Schwinn and I get to pick it up tomorrow! At any rate, I'm gonna need some road time. Is anyone interested? I am a member of a Team, but they go too fast for me on their rides at this point!

Also, who's doing the St. Patty's Run? I am going to be running with my fiancee (i.e., very slowly!)

Is that the one in June?  My friend and I are going to do the Oly. It will be my 1st one. Eek. I am frightened!!!

Blue Lake is a great event. The bike and run are flat. I did the Oly last year and the sprint the year before. Well run with lots of great athletes and spectators. The water in June is usually good. (It gets kind of green my August for the Mid summerTri).
I will be doing Mid Summer as an Oly. and Grand Columbian 1/2 Iron, getting ready for IM Arizona in November.

Best of luck with your first year.
It only gets to be more and more fun (and expensive) as you get into it .

Twocougz

Huge fan of Pacific Crest in Sunriver, and the Chelanman in Lake Chelan!!!