2017 JOS Welcome and Admin Thread
Welcome to the 2017 January OutSeason (JanOS) Group!
This JanOS will be an awesome learning, motivational and accountability opportunity for all of you!
The Purpose of This Thread
This is the official admin thread for the JanOS. In it you'll find
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Useful links to more information to help you have a successful OutSeason.
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Any JanOS-specific admin information we may have for you.
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JanOS athlete bios, as they introduce themselves to you, and you to them, in this thread.
OutSeason Resources
Please go to the main OutSeason Page under Training Plan / Training Plan Central / OutSeason section. This is where you'll find all of the resources we've created to support your OutSeason. On this page you'll find such greatest hits as:
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The Official OutSeason® Welcome
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OutSeason FAQ and Best Practices
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2017 Flow Chart for Modification instructions
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Preparing for Your First OutSeason (webinar)
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When to Start the OutSeason
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The OutSeason Webinar Series
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And much, much more!
Go-To Threads in this Forum
Please review and post questions, bumping them to the top, if you have them.
For more details please visit the OutSeason Master Page in the Wiki
The Purpose of the JanOS Forum
The rest of this forum will be filled with weekly mojo and accountability threads. For example, the JanOS Week 1 Thread, or the JanOS Week 1 Bike Thread, JanOS Week 1 Core Workout Thread, where you'll encourage each other, hold each other accountable, and generally support each other as you build your FAST across your 14 weeks together.
JanOS Captains
Thank you Scott Dinhofer (Bike Thread Captain) and Francis Picard (Run Thread Captain) for volunteering. I do, however need a thread captain for the Core Thread. Please email me (Brenda) at brenda@endurancenation.us if you're interested.
Please Introduce Yourself to Your JanOS Teammates!
Please join/sign into the JanOS by introducing yourself by posting to this thread, posting a picture and brief bio using the format below. These are the people you'll be training with, virtually, for months and months so it would be great to put faces and personal stories to names and email addresses!
We recommend that you subscribe to this thread, using the Additional Options dealio visible when you reply to this thread when making your introduction. You'll then receive an email when updates are made to this admin thread.
Finally, understand that the Coaches do not actively monitor these Training Group Forums, searching for training questions and support issues to address. That is, if you have a training related coachy-coachy question, you'll find us in the other forums and specifically in the Micro and Macro Threads!
Thanks! We look forward to seeing what fun and motivation you guys create for yourselves!
Comments
SS here hopping on the band wagon. Joseph, Tom, glad to see you guys in here. Scott, Francis, thanks for leading us.
I'll be doing a run focus OS with 3 bikes more or less a week.
I have IMMT in August on the docket currently.
Look forward to the OS with all of you peeps!
SS
Ian
Will try to maintain my run fitness.
So far I have MT70.3 in June and IMMT in August. Still nothing planned yet for fall.
That's gonna be a fun 14 weeks
I'm bouncing from Nov to Dec to Jan OS. Started OS in late Nov after Nov 13th Half Iron; Then lost a week or two to early season ski trip, and will spend another month Jan 23-Feb18 skiing. So right now I am syncing along in the Dec OS (DOS), and will meet up with y'all in the third week of Feb. By then I hope to be back at running; I've currently put myself in run jail hoping to fully heal from high hamstring tendonitis and piriformis syndrome.
Hi all!
I'll be joining you for the Jan OS. At the moment I have no real race goals for 2017, but I always end-up getting pulled into signing up for something!
I basically just want to improve this year, see some gains, and kick some butt in races!!! And I know EN is the place to do it.
I'm living in Dublin, Ireland but originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Looking forward to taking on the OS with you all!!!
I’m in. Looking forward to working with this awesome group!
For 2017 I’ve committed to BRC in April and IM 70.3 Chattanooga in September; there’s also the usual selection of local races; still not yet committed to IM Lou in October
@SS and @Francis – you should both come to Louisville; that would get me off the fence
For me, 2017 will be all about processes and gains, and what better way to start, than the EN OS.
On the schedule, I plan to do some olys, a couple running and cycling events and finish the year with a HIM (tentatively Arizona 70.3). Also plan to participate in a couple of camps.
Looking forward to crushing it with you all!
#GoGetIt!
This year is Tour de Cali, Ironman Canada, and Hincapie Gran Fondo. Pondering the North Face 50, but we shall see....
Well I'm in for my 9th OS with a goal to make this another high quality one. I believe I have 2 of those high quality OS', 3 decent ones, and 3 sub par OS' with one of those latter 3 a dud.
I have two constraints presently i) no bike head unit so this will delay week one testing. Which is fine I can work with HR for the first week or so without. ii) We are expecting our first in early April just as I move to Transition and to the IM Plan. Other than getting things organized and helping out extra this should not be a huge issue in the OS but the IM Plan following will be a challenge.
I'm am signed up for Lake Placid in July. I actually won a team lottery spot for the race before I found out we were expecting. So I'm committed to the process, have buy in from my wife, yes I asked several times and will continue to ask on a regular basis as we move forward. The in-laws also want to come out for the race so we will have a full support crew for Patti, not really concerned about myself. So this is all fluid but I'll be training like I'm going up until I feel it's impacting things too much or I get the "it's time to pull the plug request" hopefully when I'm asking because I've noticed...
For the record she's the one that told me I should be continuing with the training and the IM race this year. Having said that I'd still like to do the race and feel compelled to try and toe the line given I've taken the opportunity from someone else via the EN lottery.
@Edwin the water boy comment made me chuckle. We all help out and you just bumped up my OS mojo without trying.
Should be a fun year with BRC and Tour o' Cali then couple HIM's
In for JOS. This will be my third. Took several months off due to achilles injury and generalized loss of drive. Back and ready to get at it, healed and ready for the pain and gain. Goal is to PR at Maine 70.3 in August. Between then and now planning a HM with my daughters in March, after doing Boston with them in 2015. They swore they would never be sucked into endurance again but yet here we are! Many smaller races in the summer. Looking forward to the support and push of this truly stacked group.
This will be my 3rd or 4th OS, though I've yet to complete one -- life and/or injury always seem to conspire against me! I'm finally 100% healthy, and life seems to be settling down, so hoping this year is a breakthrough year for me. Planning a half-marathon in late March to finish up the OS (a little early, but that's okay!), then the Ohio 70.3, Michigan Titanium Aquabike as a RR for IMCHOO, then IMCHOO. Just moved to Ohio from Mobile, so still adjusting to no sun, cold, snow, and a race season that doesn't start until June!
Looking forward to getting started next week!
I'm looking forward to suffering (and getting faster) along with you all!
I have Patriot Half scheduled for Mid-June and IMSR for late July. Also a handful of other races and adventures penciled in along the way. Psyched to get the ball rolling...again!
Patti
Well, well, well a good mix of JOS from newbies to "been around the block" peeps.
this is my 6+ OS. I have been in maintenance for a couple of months but was trg for a few running events. From a 50 km trail race to a cancelled marathon turned in a PB hilly half mary. Spent the last bit of late fall enjoying cyclocross racing, now that was alot of fun. But time to get back in the saddle, and get some game face going 
. Advice to the newbies, OS's are hard, and for a reason, "get what you can", this is not a race. Question, ask, and listen to all your JOS teammates. There will be high and low points in the next couple of month's for all of us, just hang in there. Virtual high 5's are awesome pick me up's. Nice to see a few IMMT'ers 2017 in the mix as this is my chosen IM this year. Looking forward to talking in the forums and team building for success. I am a sucker for OS suffering. I always use this to peg in a marathon as my graduation gift to myself. This year is no different so my run trg will be modified.(http://glasscitymarathon.org/).
litatio ,see you all on the nineth !
Season looks like an OLY in May...Half in June...Then participating with the beasts doing Tremblant this summer. Looking to see some guys commit to LOU and my 75% sure I'm going to do that one will turn into 100%.
OS is my favorite time on the EN calendar... I love the camaraderie and seeing the hard work you all bring to the table in Strava!
Since I'm new, I'm going to start out by training with HR. Still trying to talk the wife to let me add a power meter to my bike.
Goals for the year:
April - Columbus CapCity Half Mary
June - Motor City Tri (Oly)
July - IM Ohio 70.3
Oct - Detroit Freep Half Marathon
Nov - Las Vegas Rock&Roll Marathon
I'm sure there will be some fun runs/tris thrown in the mix as well.
Looks like the fun begins on Monday!
I'm in! I had to move my OS from December to January. I'm hoping this will get my mojo going. I signed up for IMLP (yikes) and IMLP 70.3.