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Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: Slugger on 2008-12-01 5:36 AM
Welcome to Team Comet! Introduce yourselves and get to know your teammates.
skarl
QueenZipp
LeahDD
CPT K
carrie1
mchally
KathyG
Offthegrid
disturbed275
Your spreadsheet is available here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pfYL7DR_dx-CSyQkuRUkbNA&hl=e... The user name is btchallenge and the password is challengeforum. Have a great month!
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The trick is what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable
or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.
--Carlos Castaneda
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: QueenZipp on 2008-12-01 5:54 AM
Morning team Comet! I know a few of you here I'm Judi and my goal is swimming 3x a week for an hour each session. I swim Tuesday/Thursday mornings with a coach and Sunday afternoons on my own (with a workout from triswimcoach.com)
I'm in 5 challenges this month so I'll be all over the boards and might get confused about what I'm doing where
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Judi
Not enough time in this life to make me a great swimmer.~~the bear
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: carrie1 on 2008-12-01 9:03 AM
Hey Team. I'm Carrie. I'm in for 2 swims a week, which has been a struggle for me lately. I'm also in a few challenges this month so I may get confused as well.
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: skarl on 2008-12-01 9:09 AM
Hi Comets! Hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving had a great one!
I haven't met many of you before so I'll introduce myself. I'm Susan, live in the CO foothills west of Denver, have 3 nearly grown kids, 3 dogs and a cat and a very tolerant husband. I work in a small law office here in town. Finished my second year of tris and am focusing on swim and bike this winter, and strength and stretching so I don't have to put up with running injuries again next season. Planning to swim lots this month because that is definitely my limiter -- not that I don't enjoy passing people on the bike and run, but I'd like to not be last out of the water. Taking swim lessons from BTer juliapurr and hope to be able to keep up w/ the slow lane at Masters by the end of the month.
Looking forward to a fun and productive month!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: disturbed275 on 2008-12-01 9:31 AM
Hi team! Looks like we have a bunch swimmers here. Me too!
My name is Neal and I just wrapped up my first season of tris. Basically last spring I taught myself how to swim. As you might imagine my stroke needs some work and the last few weeks I have been working with a coach to correct things. I need to spend more time in the pool to try and implement those corrections and erase the bad habits I had formed. My goal is to get in the pool 10 times this month.
Looks like this is going to be a great team!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: disturbed275 on 2008-12-01 9:33 AM
QueenZipp - 2008-12-01 5:54 AMMorning team Comet! I know a few of you here I'm Judi and my goal is swimming 3x a week for an hour each session. I swim Tuesday/Thursday mornings with a coach and Sunday afternoons on my own (with a workout from triswimcoach.com)
I'm in 5 challenges this month so I'll be all over the boards and might get confused about what I'm doing where
Hi Judi! Good to have you on a team again this month. Your daily inspires are a godsend
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: QueenZipp on 2008-12-01 7:11 PM
Neal, we need to get this party started I swim tomorrow morning but probably won't get to log details and such until after I do my drainer ride in the evening.
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Judi
Not enough time in this life to make me a great swimmer.~~the bear
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: disturbed275 on 2008-12-01 7:57 PM
QueenZipp - 2008-12-01 7:11 PM Neal, we need to get this party started I swim tomorrow morning but probably won't get to log details and such until after I do my drainer ride in the evening.Have fun with your swim! I won't be able to hit the pool till Wednesday. I'm taking a couple of vacation days and staying at my parents place till then. Not sure where to even look for water around here besides the lake and I wouldn't touch that with the warmest of wetsuits.
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: skarl on 2008-12-01 11:49 PM
Got my first swim in for December
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"When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived." ~ Henry David Thoreau -
RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: Slugger on 2008-12-02 12:39 AM
Hey gang - I put all the swimmers together (well, MOST of the swimmers) so you could encourage each other. And so that I don't have to think about how most triathletes have to swim, an so I should probably get on that. You got the name Comet because swimmers leave a little wake...like a comet...get it? Yeah, lame, but I was running out of good reindeer names!
Have a great month!
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The trick is what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable
or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.
--Carlos Castaneda
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Yes, chicks are sluggers, too... -
RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: KathyG on 2008-12-02 8:16 AM
Cool...I'm in with the swim focus folks!!!
I'm Kathy, mom to 5 ages 19-10, have done 5 years of tris and still very BOP on the swim..annoying as heck as I have taken lessons from 4 coaches and swim mostly 3x a week for 5 years.
Swimming is mostly technique 70-80% so swimming slow I know my technique is poor. I'm determined to improve and have hired yet another swim coach and am taking lessons. I really like her and she explains things many different ways and tries to get me to understand what I do wrong and then helps me try different ways to get it. I don't make the normal mistakes (cross over and too high entry) but more unusual ones...early entry on right side and long glide in which I lock my elbow so I have a hard time keeping my elbow above my hand on the catch. Right now I just do technique or focus point workouts normally about 30' but only as long as I feel in the groove and improving technique. No more griding out the yards instilling crappy technique. I will gain more speed come tri season if I improve technique..free speed. At IMLP I was about the 30th slowest swimmer and worried all off season if I'd make the swim cut off 2:20 and swam in 1:48 which I was excited for. IM Canada I have a goal of sub 1:30.
My Y opened a new pool in the town my girls go to school in so I often swim after dropping them off or before I pick them up and it is a fresh start to where I have swam last 5 years. I can't really explain how frustrated I have been in the past with lack of progress...nothing like doing the same thing over and over and not improving. I did take 4 months off swimming after IMLP just to get a mental break and it was good for me.
Go team Comet!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: Offthegrid on 2008-12-02 8:24 AM
Hi, all. My name's Susie, and I live near Allentown, PA. I've been doing triathlons off and on for a while now, but I have a habit of quitting and gaining back weight. I want to finally lose the weight for good so that I can do longer distance triathlons.
Swimming here for me, too. My goal is 14 sessions which is average of 3x/week.
I have been videotaped and took lessons for a while. I'm just slow, as I am when biking or running. I do love swimming, it's just tough for me to get my behind out of bed sometimes.
I'm working on learning to breathe every 3 strokes (I do a 2-3-2-3 pattern now) and to do flip turns. I can do flip turns for about half of my workout but they're pretty poorly done at this point.
I've gotten one swim session in already this month, and I plan to swim Wednesday and Friday before work. I also want to get up earlier so that I can increase mypatheticyardage.
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Jai ho!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: Offthegrid on 2008-12-02 8:27 AM
BTW, just when I felt in a groove last night and really felt like I was doing awesome with my technique and going faster ... some swimmer dude swam 50 yards in the time it took me to do 25. I briefly thought about breaking his goggles but just like Dora in "Finding Nemo" I just kept swimming.
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Jai ho!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: skarl on 2008-12-02 9:05 AM
Slugger - 2008-12-01 11:39 PM Hey gang - I put all the swimmers together (well, MOST of the swimmers) so you could encourage each other. And so that I don't have to think about how most triathletes have to swim, an so I should probably get on that. You got the name Comet because swimmers leave a little wake...like a comet...get it? Yeah, lame, but I was running out of good reindeer names! Have a great month!Sounds great -- thanks for setting up the challenge!!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: Offthegrid on 2008-12-02 9:27 AM
Here's challenge chart if you want it in your logs:
Edited by Offthegrid 2008-12-02 9:28 AM
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Jai ho!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: Offthegrid on 2008-12-02 9:28 AM
(BTW: the reindeer is actually by a river)
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Jai ho!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: Offthegrid on 2008-12-02 9:32 AM
skarl - 2008-12-02 12:49 AM
Got my first swim in for December
yippee! Go team go!
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Jai ho!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: disturbed275 on 2008-12-02 9:34 AM
Offthegrid - 2008-12-02 9:27 AM Here's challenge chart if you want it in your logs:Thanks for the chart! Very nice!
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RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: skarl on 2008-12-02 10:24 AM
Yes, that's a great chart! Tnx!
Did LT test on trainer this morning, so no swim, which means I'm on the hook for swimming everyday for the rest of the week. Woo hoo! We live 1/2 a mile from the rec center so it's not a big deal to run over for a swim. Like Kathy, I'm focusing on form rather than distance right now, so keeping the swims frequent and short.
Off to work -- have a great day everybody!!
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"When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived." ~ Henry David Thoreau -
RE: Team Comet - Dec. Limiter Challenge
BY: Offthegrid on 2008-12-02 11:24 AM
Leaving for physical therapy appointment in 5 mins. Blech. (I tore my plantar fascia right before Halloween.)
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Jai ho!
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?