Newbz'z group is FULL!!!!!!

Hey Dave, I'd like to join your group if I can.  Downside is that I am only a duathlete.  The upside is that I am from Washington Court House, Ohio, and have some of the HFP race series races scheduled including the Olentangy Duathlon that I see you have scheduled -so we can meet and race face to face some.

I also wanted someone who is faster than me.  I started duathlon training on 7/28/2008 after 9.5 years of doing nothing.  I am an ex-cyclist (1993-1997), ex OSU Rower (1989-1993).  I've had good runnig and riding times in the past and hope to get them back or close to them.  I've got a wife and kids who support me.

Weightloss:  40lbs since 2006.  30lbs since Feb. 2007, 20lbs since July 2008.  Currently 6' 2" and 188-192.

Goals.  Get 5K times down under 21:00 and bike speed over 22MPH (during duathlon competions).  Get decently fast at the sprint duathlon lengths.

Thanks for the consideration.

Hi Dave,

I would love to be in your group also. I am in Portsmouth Ohio,,,home of the TTT race. I am doing this as my "A" race this year. I also am doing HFP races this year.

About me: I am 47 yr old married mom and grandmom..this is my 3rd season doing Tri's .

I am working to get faster in all 3 parts of the Tri but my strongest, if I have to have a strongest is my bike.

Weight: I have lost over 100 lbs in the last 5 yrs and am looking to get 10-15lbs more to get to my race weight.

Races: DeSoto TTT Solo (2nd time)

             Caesar Creek Tri in July  Oly dist.

             Great Buckeye Challenge  Aug  1/2 Iron

             Toyota Challenge        Sept.  1/2 Iron

2008 Goals: to Finish TTT with faster bike and run splits and to get the other 1/2 Iron races done this year...last year I dropped to to the shorter distance.

I would love to have someone locally to may be meet up with at races and who also has the local knowelge to help me not get discouraged.

Thanks,

Chris

Not that it matters, but my weightloss numbers should be 30lbs, 20lbs, 10lbs, not 40, 30, 20.

For some reason I was calculating the a current weight of 180 instead of 190.

Chris, keep up the work.  Have fun with those longer events.  J I'll stick with the shorties.

Elliot:  I've had a 50 minute commute since Oct 1999.  I don't like it but I also don't think about it anymore.  Try to find a good carpool and hang in there with the training.  I recently ramped up my efforts to try to meet my goals.  I hope you find your balance.

Justin: Looks like your training times point towards some big improvement this year.

David: I think I remember Ryan Briggs.  Jay Smith does not ring a bell at all.  The Ryan Briggs name has also left me hazy.  When I hear the name I always wonder if he is the guy I knew or if I knew a Ryan Briggs, or a Brian Riggs, or a Ryan Biggs.  The kid (kid back then) I knew was from Marietta, Ohio and rowed some for the University of Cincinnati too I think.  He had red/redish hair and rowed as a lightweight (probably 5’ 6” to 5’8&rdquo.  If he is the same guy your thinking of, I think we were novice rowers together in 1989 but he was only on the team for 1 or 2 years.

 Hey hows it going. I was hoping I could join your group. I am 33 and an active duty sailor deployed to the midde east. I just got into tris, lets say at breakfast because I am such a newbie. Being in the military I run a lot, I also did spinning classes all winter. I am riding a mountain bike back and forth to work and when I need to get around. I am planning on running a tri this season in Sept. if I am back in time. I will be getting over the swim porition of training Monday when I hit the pool and star practicing drills I found through a link on this site. I really hope to be home to compleete and at least finish my first sprint but I won't get discoouraged if work keeps me away and I have to train all winter for next season.

 Noticed there were a few Buckeyes here so being from Lancaster, I figured this was the place.

Hey glad to have you.  I am a US Army verteran.  If your Sept race is at Deer Creek, I hope you make it because I'll be there (of course speaking for everyone, we hope you get back in time for all the bigger reasons than triathlons).  Good luck.

Hi David,

I'd like to join your group if it's still open. I turn 40 this year and have been overweight for a long time so I thought that doing a sprint would be a good way for me to jumpstart my weight loss program, be a good example for my son and to see if I can do it. 

 Maybe I'm being naive but I'm pretty confident that I can complete a sprint but I'm worried about how tired I will be after the swim.

 How worried should I be about being totally spent after the swim and do you have some advice for someone that is a total beginner to swimming and to triathlons? 

 Thanks, Mike

Hopefully I can still slide in before you close this group.  Looks like most have significantly more experience in endurance sports than I do, but if it doesn't bother you guys it will be motivating for me.

 I turn 40 this summer.  Started walking and running in November...weighing 243 and was running for 1 min...walking for 2 and could barely swim the length of the pool.   Got my weight down over 30 pounds and 10 days ago I completed a mini-sprint (300swim/9bike/2.25run).  

 Scheduled events: 

Gearwest Duathlon 5/18

Buffala (MN) Sprint Tri 6/1

Deadwood 1/2M 6/8 (hopefully)

 ....then who knows

 
Hopefully there is still room for me in this group!

Alan

Big Stone City, SD
 

What did I think of the first tri?  That all depends on when you ask.  As I started the run, with both calves and one hamstring completely cramped, all I could think about was "all the work you've done to get ready....it apparently wasn't enough!!!"  Then after it was over while I was bent over thinking about throwing up and I remembered that "addictive" rumor that I had heard, I couldn't imagine that being "addictive."  

 ....the next day I went online and signed up for another one!  Great feeling of accomplishment.