Ok is there really such a thing? sometimes yes but most times no... the run of a tri is NOT my favorite part... I love the bike leg.... but its all part of it..
Dick Ponds in Elmhurst holds a monthly fun run, usually the first Monday of the month and Jayne, the owner, always has some local vendor to offer food afterward - so its not all bad... tonight my new coach will be assessing my run form as he assessed my swim form over the weekend.
We don't have a mapped out plan yet to the proposed 1/2 IM in September, I'm still iffy about my ability to do it, but I have some general workouts from Dave to get me going...
Ok time to change and head out for the FUN RUN....
Monday, April 7, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Cool Blogger folks
Its amazing the power of the internet and how you can 'met' others with similar interests. Just reading this blog, links you to that blog, then to another, and so on and so forth....And then your realize how small the world really is and that damn... some of these peeps are in your back yard, almost....
So I've had a few email exchanges with Iron Snoopy and I'm really hoping to meet her and Waddler at Galena, after the race of course, when we are all a bit more settled and besides there is just more time after the race to get to make new friends.
Hard to believe its a bit over a month away. Its kind of a sentimental race for me. I know it sounds silly but its the first multisport race I ever did, just last year. I remember going to packet pick up and going from T1 to T2 for duathlon, and driving the bike course and thinking silently to myself... OH MY GOSH!!! I will NEVER make all these hills and then the proud feeling and mile long smile I had when I did make it... I mean yeah I had the 2nd run leg to do and that first uphill is a bitch, but cosidering the doubt I had in my head from the day before and now there I was in T2 finished with that bike leg....
Well I was so damn excited to do that race again this year, I had Kevin signing us up as soon as it opened at midnight on New Years Eve. I should be able to do better on the bike this year... I've had bike re-fitted, new seat and seat post and it feels so much better, and I've figured out gearing a bit better too.... now time to get out and ride some hills, as small as they may be, round here in preparation...
So I've had a few email exchanges with Iron Snoopy and I'm really hoping to meet her and Waddler at Galena, after the race of course, when we are all a bit more settled and besides there is just more time after the race to get to make new friends.
Hard to believe its a bit over a month away. Its kind of a sentimental race for me. I know it sounds silly but its the first multisport race I ever did, just last year. I remember going to packet pick up and going from T1 to T2 for duathlon, and driving the bike course and thinking silently to myself... OH MY GOSH!!! I will NEVER make all these hills and then the proud feeling and mile long smile I had when I did make it... I mean yeah I had the 2nd run leg to do and that first uphill is a bitch, but cosidering the doubt I had in my head from the day before and now there I was in T2 finished with that bike leg....
Well I was so damn excited to do that race again this year, I had Kevin signing us up as soon as it opened at midnight on New Years Eve. I should be able to do better on the bike this year... I've had bike re-fitted, new seat and seat post and it feels so much better, and I've figured out gearing a bit better too.... now time to get out and ride some hills, as small as they may be, round here in preparation...
Consistency is the key
Been pretty consistant with the running. Not like I'm going out every day kind of consistant but more often than not kinda consistant. Been keeping track of things on two sites, just cause the graphs are kinda cool and I'm a sick numbers person, bones in motion and motion based, but I can't seem to figure out for the life of me why I can't get the cool graphs to display within my blog... hopefully someone in blogger world can assist this techno challenged number cruncher... all I can figure is it is some setting on blogger I don't have set right. Oh well I DID at least figure out how to post the link on the sidebar... one step at a time right!
So in my contemplation of doing a 1/2 IronMan I've decided I might want to get a coach involved. I'd love to be able to afford Joe from Experience Triathlon but I'm not really willing to spend that much $$, least not at this point. But I've taken some swim classes with our tri club president, Dave Polkow, and I really like his gentle style. So I've enlisted his help and yesterday was our first 'meeting' and swim lesson.
I've told him that I realize a 1/2 IM may be a bit to lofty of a goal. I mean considering I did my first tri or any multisport event last year, prior to Oct 2006 could not swim even one full length of the pool, and I've NEVER even done anything above a sprint distance, AND I've been very coach potato-ish until recently when I got back to running.... a 1/2 IM may be biting off more than I can chew or even put the time into, considering how much time not just work but full time college classes are taking. It not un-doable, but I don't want to kill myself in the process, just have fun and challenge myself - so we will see if I just step up to OLY distance this year or take that bigger bite...
Now I would NEVER consider a full IM without having much more experience behind me, but a 1/2 IM seems more do-able than a full - but I also understand the addiction so who the heck knows what the future may hold... might be a cool thing to consider for say maybe my 45th Bday in 2 years.....
So in my contemplation of doing a 1/2 IronMan I've decided I might want to get a coach involved. I'd love to be able to afford Joe from Experience Triathlon but I'm not really willing to spend that much $$, least not at this point. But I've taken some swim classes with our tri club president, Dave Polkow, and I really like his gentle style. So I've enlisted his help and yesterday was our first 'meeting' and swim lesson.
I've told him that I realize a 1/2 IM may be a bit to lofty of a goal. I mean considering I did my first tri or any multisport event last year, prior to Oct 2006 could not swim even one full length of the pool, and I've NEVER even done anything above a sprint distance, AND I've been very coach potato-ish until recently when I got back to running.... a 1/2 IM may be biting off more than I can chew or even put the time into, considering how much time not just work but full time college classes are taking. It not un-doable, but I don't want to kill myself in the process, just have fun and challenge myself - so we will see if I just step up to OLY distance this year or take that bigger bite...
Now I would NEVER consider a full IM without having much more experience behind me, but a 1/2 IM seems more do-able than a full - but I also understand the addiction so who the heck knows what the future may hold... might be a cool thing to consider for say maybe my 45th Bday in 2 years.....
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