[RETIRED] New Member Welcome Thread
This is for all new TeamEN athletes who have just joined! Please post your name, location, tri-experience, goals for this season and beyond...and anything else you think your new teammates might want to learn. Welcome aboard!
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A warm welcome to anyone new to EN. Please let us know who you are.
Dave
My name is Jon and I am a new member as of December. I live in NY and love it out here. I just started getting into the sport of triathlon a year ago and I decided that this would be the best way to see what a real training plan might do to help me achieve my goals for next year. I am still trying to figure all them out (short-term and long-term), but I wanted to take this time to introduce myself.
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Jon
Jon,
Welcome aboard! Do you have any races planned? Lots to choose from in the Northeast.
Dave
Welcome Jon! There are quite of few of us in NY. Do you live in civilized area of Downstate or the Frozen Tundra of Upstate?
To the EN crew and coaches
My name is Steve Anderson and I am a proud husband to a wonderful wife and a father of a 19-month old baby girl. I got into triathlon last year and have been training 8-18 hours/week since last December when I got the bright idea that, with a financial planning business, a baby, and a wife in school to become a nurse practitioner that it would be a great idea to inject triathlon into the mix. It has been interesting, but, I am 'obsessed' now! My only race is the Amica 70.3 in Rhode Island, and it was a great experience. I posted a 5:25...I was semi-happy with the result.
I was going to do IMAZ this year, but decided to hold off until 2010. This year, I am signed up for NOLA 70.3, I am signing up for IMLous at Christmas, and am hoping to get into another 70.3 later in the year. The goal is simple: qualify for Kona. I know that is ambitious, but, in the next year or two I think it is possible. I DO have my head on straight though...my NOLA goal is sub-4:45-50, and my IM goal is just finishing since it is my first one (I will admit that 10:30ish sounds good to me though).
I have been reading the EN material for the past 6 months and decided to go ahead and buy a training plan and, wouldn't you know it, a spot opened up and I snagged it! I am pumped to be here...and ready to get a jersey!!!
I'm Cary Blanco in Atlantic Beach, NY (straight line 2.5 miles from JFK airport runways). about 20 miles from Manhattan. Very flat here by the ocean, but we've got some nice hills up on the north shore of Long Island and there's always a trip Westchester for rides with extended climbing.
I work in the Musical Instrument/Recording industry doing Marketing and Artist Relations.
I did my first two HIMs this year (2009). I'm in the Dec OS group and I'm registered for Eagleman 70.3 and IMLP in 2010. I thinking about Syracuse 70.3 in Sept 2010 but I'm not ready to pull the plug yet.
I've been checking out what RnP have to ay for the last two months and managed to sign on as a member two weeks ago.
Looking forward to interacting with the whole EN team executing my races the "EN way" in 2010.
Hi All,
My name is Chuck and I live in southwestern Wyoming, 45 minutes from Park City, UT. Although, living/training at altitude (7000ft) has it's advantages, it's dam cold right now. I am the proud husband to a VERY wonderful lady and dad to a 5yo and 1yo. I have been racing triathlons for about 7 years and mostly stayed in the olympic distance relm. I do have one 70.3 to my name, Boulder 5430. I finished in 6 hours and totally bonked on the run. So far, I have a few oly's planned for 2010, as well as IMAZ. Right now I am trying to soak up as much information as possible to make my first IM an enjoyable experience. I am really excited to be with EN and any/all advice will be appreciated.
G'day folks - David here - live over in the UK in a small town called Poole (next door to Bournemouth on England's south coast) - Poole very much the small market town, built up centuries ago on the back of the timber trade coming in from Newfoundland.
42 years old ,married to Julie (Jules) who is at University & about to qualify as a Midwife - 3 kids, 19,17 & 15, eldest James at college studying Graphic Design (could be handy) -only the youngest (Oliver) is sporty being goalkeeper in our county soccer team. Then there's 'our 2 bitches!' Lucy & Sasha the labradors - Lucy is black and your typical gun-dog type whereas 'her sister' is a big dopey cocolate lab! (yep i'll get pics up soon!)
I have my own business - I'm a headhunter supplying sales & tech executives within the IT & Telco sectors; many of my major clients are US based - I provide that '1st hire' in Europe. Although the job entails long hours I can usually tailor the workload so can find time to train duiring the day.
Just moved into multi-sport from a pure cycling background -when I say 'background' I've been cycling 5 years, mainly MTB XC. Fed up of repeated injuries on the MTB and having tech skills as a major limiter to race results so decided to sell all my 'bling' MTB kit (no going back now) and get into Tri, a sport that has intrigued me for years. I've always have been involved in sports, represented GB in sailing many years ago.
I was coached 1:1 for MTB XC with mixed results - I did need a programme that would feed me plans on those days/weeks when work/home takes over. i.e. a 'just do it plan' but also when I did have time, have the opportunity to learn, research the sport and perhaps input to others,perhaps on cycling aspects. EN appears to have hit the spot!
Looking forward to progressing and getting to know the Team! Forgot to add, over in the US in August to race Timberman and can't wait! We're fortunate to have family in Boston so we'll be at Gunstock with a load of folks, you have been warned! Its our american relatives are all nuts however! :-)
Welcome Chuck and David! Chuck- you've got lots of time to soak it all in and learn before IMAZ! You found the right place!
David- so cool that you'll be coming over for Timberman so you can meet some of the NorthEast US folks. Great gang up there and Timberman should be full of ENers!
My name is Peter and I live in Davis, CA, just outside Sacramento. I'm married and have a 4 yo daughter and a 4 month old son. I do Exchange email administration and support many Windows based applications/server at UC Davis. I'm looking forward to the Tour of California starting a stage in Davis again this year. Hopefully I can meet up with the EN ToC group when they pass through town.
I got talked into doing IM CDA with my cousin in June. I've never actually done a triathlon. I've done a lot of running and some cycling though. I also signed up for IM 70.3 California in March just so I can get some experience. The philosophy of EN meshes really well with my own (speed work=good) and I figured it would be nice to have a group of people who can help guide my training and make it more efficient (I only have so much time with a 4 month old).
Peter
Welcome Steve, Cary, Chuck, Dave, and Peter! Take a mental picture of yourself now because after OS the new you will crush your old self at race.
@ Cary and Jon: A fun adventure is Survival of the Shawangunks. http://www.sostriathlon.com/ There's also American Zofingen, but it's been moved to May next year. http://www.cm2promotions.com/CM2_PROMOTIONS/Home.html For HIM's up in the "wilderness" part of NY, there's Tupper Lake Tinman HIM on June 26 in the Adirondacks and Musselman HIM in mid-July--right in my backyard in Geneva, NY (Finger Lakes). I've heard the Mighty Montauk was a good race too. I spent part of my childhood in Levitown, Long Island and have always wanted to do that race.
@Dave: Sold your mtb bling?! I just about fainted when I read that.
I'm just beginning to acquire mtb bling in the form of a custom titanium 650b bike...
@Kitima My schedule is Eagleman in Early June and IMLP in Late July so none of those events really work for me. I'm considering Mighty Montauk,or possibly the SOS tri. I've did the Montauk Sprint last year, great scenery there - let me know if you register for the 70.3.
Victor, NY - the only thing I know about Victor is that Whole Latte Love is there and I got my espresso machine from them. I hope to get to know it better one day.
@Kitima & @Nemo - I feel like I know both of you a bit from the meet the team podcasts
Eeeeeeek!
I may have been tempted to keep the kit if we had a decent Xterra type series in the UK, we don't sadly - looking at the 'lame' Xterra courses I may have done OK considering my lack of tech ability (certainly not at podium level thas for sure).
I'll just console myself with a set of Zipps! :-)
I have been doing tris since around 2002. I found my way into while working my way back from ACL reconstruction. I have done a wide variety of races which last year culminated in doing both IMMOO and IMAZ. I've been working 1:1 with a coach for the past couple years with decent results. Another friend was talking up EN, so I started poking around. It sounded very appealing, so I thought I would give it a try and shift gears from what I have been doing. I haven't 100% decided on my year yet, but I am looking for Racine to be the "A" race for this coming year.
I'm slowly working my way through the resources here and learning as much as I can. Great stuff so far and I'm looking forward to getting started with the OS plan. This is a very new concept for me compared to what I have been doing for the past 4 years. I've been putting my little pain cave together (I need another fan) and setting myself up to start on 1/4/10.
others in NY, wow' y'all should get together or for sure sign up for the same races pretty cool. I was born in RI but didn't sign up for that race and only lived there my first two years! and then I lived in the South and they called me a Yankee! that or a "Brit" ! Anyways, I got to visit NY and it was at Christmas so pretty cool. so welcome.
have never been to Wyoming though! shoot, and it looks so cool. anyways, everybody needs to post pics of your training grounds and local places as the terrain and foods and scenery will be so different! I loved living in Colorado and lived in Littleton a community near Denver.. and loved Red Rocks and all that CO had to offer to include that desert, deep gorge, canyon, colorado river, the mts, Estes Park and the like!! what I missed?? = the trees!! and the humidity.... and thus I love Arkansas! m
Hi everyone, My name is Jorge Geronimo (pronounced George, though I'll eventually respond to hor-hey). I live in NorCal and am an intermediate athlete, and have been doing tri's since 2002. Started off with Sprints and Olys, then the second year did my first 1/2 Iron (Vineman). Since then it's been all half Iron (Vineman and Big Kahuna) or full Iron (Arizona) distance races with a year in there where I did nothing. Races on my calendar for this year are Wildflower Long Course and Ironman Coeur d'Alene.
When I say I did a year of nothing, I mean it, I did nothing and gained like 20 pounds. This was after my third year of triathlon. I was in this really REALLY weird place mentally as a result of a DNF at IM Arizona. This was when the race was in April with 90+ degree weather and crazy gusty winds on the bike. When I swung my leg over the seat at T1 I broke BOTH my bottle cages (thanks Tacx) so I was stuck carrying the bottle that didn't explode when it hit the ground. Of course dropping my second bottle and having it explode at the start of the second lap didn't help matters at all. I should have known better, but kept on regardless. I ended up in the hospital with dehydration to the point where the doc made me stay the night and schedule a follow up with my doc before I was released. I did make it to mile 18 of the run though I would call it more of a death march. Until then I had never failed at anything or any race, so a DNF was fairly devastating. Then one day about seven months later I was cleaning the bathroom and I noticed how my shoulders hurt from just scrubbing the tub, and in the background was a P90X infomercial. The bear woke from its slumber that day. A week later I was doing the program, and 90 days after that I swung my leg over the top tube of my bike to go on an actual training ride. The rest as they say, is history, and I've settled my score with Arizona
Looking back, I learned more from that failure than from some of my "success" stories and think that in many ways I really needed to go through that.
Wow that's a lot to put out there.
Let's see, what else? I'm a database administrator and work in Silicon Valley, am fortunate to have the most supportive wife in the world and two cats that will, at best, tolerate me
Jorge - You are so right. I've always marveled at the wisdom of Bob Dylan, who sang, "There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." We learn from mistakes, and then get motivation from them. I had a similar experience 3 months ago; hope I learned the right things.
Wow Al, It looks like we took a lot of the same mis-steps (going way harder than I should have, then not drinking what I should have, not taking into account the differences between training where we live and racing somewhere else). Glad to see you're back too tho, let's rock the year!
See ya @ CDA, Jorge! We'll have the race strategy down pat for that one, I know.
My name is Myrna, i just joined few days ago. My goal is IM Louisville, this will be my second triathlon and my 2nd Ironman. The biggest challenge for me is training on my own far away in a hot humid and windy country called Bahrain. I look forward to being part of the EN family and to your support. All the best in your training! Myrna