Just noticed this, sorry! I'm in the UK and freezing my nads off like JC!
Hey Jay - thinking of doing a BBW down in Girona, I can fly cheap (GBP 50.00) on Ryanair from Bournemouth. From Girona you can hit the coast around Valencia or go north into the mountains, are you in southern Spain?
Girona is where a few Pro road teams live/train - Garmin I believe + Mr Armstrong used to have an apartment there.
Be good to connect with all Intl folks.
Dave
PS. Hey Patrick - guess I need to start working you a bit a more?!
Sorry, if I'm a little late getting back to this group on my original post. Great hearing from everyone.
There's plenty of activity all over the Haus for sure. Enough to make up for what we don't post here anyway.
@Jonathan. Raining more than ever down here in southern Spain this year. Low lying areas are flooded (not me). Airport closed in Jerez yesterday due to flooding and a large secion of the tollway was shut down due to flooding (can you believe that?). Been raining like crazy since the beginning of January so I did my last bike testing in 1 Feb on the trainer in the pain cave. What a wake up call. Tested 6 points below my outside FTP. And that almost killed me! I've stuck with the trainer since. My thinking is that surviving the torture in the pain cave will make me stronger and faster out on the roads. Yes, I used to travel to London about every other month for a week on business, but don't any more. I ran a lot in Hyde Park in the misty rain too! If you don't run in the rain in London you don't run (kinda like Seattle). Normall stayed at the Cumberland hotel.
@Patrick. Fine with me. There's plenty to keep me busy with the other areas (i.e. over 50, November OS. etc.). Never a dull moment in the Haus that's for sure! Answers are available for everything triathlon related (and otherwise). You and Rich have done a superb job of weaving together an abundance of training knowledge and sources. I'm a believer! I'll continue to drink the kool-aid! The two of you deserve to be nominated for an Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year award for your outstanding work. Thank you!
@David. Yes, I'm in El Puerto de Santa Maria. About the only thing farther south is Gibraltar. Yes, Lance trains in Girona and still has a place up there as far as I know. He was down here a couple of years ago and I met him. He grew up close to where I grew up in Texas.
I've flown Ryan Air. Very economical way to fly. You can take short one day flights around Europe for as little as 20 euros. Fly up to Germany and shop and have lunch with the wife and return on the same day. Nice deal.
You wouldn't want to go up into the mountains in northern Spain right now. You'd need a snow plow.
Thanks for responding. Best of luck with your training. It just don't get any better than this!
@ Gordon. Forgot you dude. Sorry about that. Thanks for the response. I'm sure you're having a nice warm winter up there in Canada. Probably all of your training so far has been in the pain cave huh?
Our local triathlon club canceled our 100k internal ride/race tomorrow due to a severe weather alert (flooding) throughout the province here in southern Spain. Still gonna try and get tomorrow's run in outside provided there's no lightning in the area. Just have to run that much faster!
@ Gordon. Forgot you dude. Sorry about that. Thanks for the response. I'm sure you're having a nice warm winter up there in Canada. Probably all of your training so far has been in the pain cave huh?
Jay - Sorry I have not been back to this thread in awhile. Yes all the the cycling has been on the trainer and quite a few of the runs on the treadmill.
I hadn't noticed this forum group before today, I am located in Malaysia and have been living here for three years. I have been racing in SE Asia and Australia and happened to run next another EN believer at IM Western Australia, but my contact with the group is pretty limited.
Hi Guys, I'm in Dublin, Ireland and been in the Haus since October last. So far its going well. Doing IMUSA Lake Placid this year - for the third time. Love that race but given there are so many other races around Europe I might chance one of those next.
Looks like I'm late to the call too... I'm in Spain (in between Madrid and Barcelona). It's been a cold winter of trainer workouts, and I hope I'll be able to get out more now... although today it's pouring with rain. I'll be just doing the Half Challenge here in Barcelona (HIM distance race), on May the 16th, and then some olympics around Barcelona and Valencia (my hometown). My biggest challenge this year is my first son, who will be born this week (hopefully).
I turns out that for a spaniard I am not a huge soccer fun. I've always been tall and strong for spanish standards, and in school I played a lot of basketball (the "other" sport in Spain). Then I went to the states for some time and brought back American Football, a sport that I helped develop in Spain in its origins (where it still is, 20 years later). So, I know soccer / football, as any good spaniard does, and I root for... whichever team that plays well. I enjoy this year's and last year's Barça (to the delight of my wife, who is from Barcelona), and also Sevilla and Villareal (to the dismay of my father who is a Valencia fan). I never really liked the Real (which makes interesting conversations with my colleagues in Madrid) and the Real Sociedad (from San Sebastian, in the North) used to be my team (in the early eighties) when I was a kid. Ah! Spain and football, only the italians beat us at being so crazy about it.
I've just got around to joining the house. I'm located in the lovely village of Underwood, outside of Nottingham - UK. I'm training towards the "Outlaw" iron-distance event which is based in Nottingham. After my awful experience with IMUK 2009, not my race time but the organisation, it will be nice to be in my own bed before the race! Its a sunny, bright and fresh morning here in the UK and I've got a 10K run at 11am, I can't wait! I'm following the Don Fink competitive plan at the moment, which in some ways follows the EN ethos of training. What I like about the EN method is the simple and concise way the training is laid out and all the BS is taken away. I'm remind of a acronym we use in tech-diving - KISS (keep it simple and simple). I haven't convinced my wife that joining EN will be a good for me but she's "allowed" me to buy a Fuji D6 so I'm happy that I will be competitive on the bike leg of the "Outlaw". I'm not sure how or what will happen by joining the EN house but I'm looking forward to the journey! Regards.
@Kurt - welcome to another Brit, think that makes 3 of us that are based in the UK. I joined EN in December and nearing the end of my Out Season plan ('OS') and then I'll be switching into mid-way thru the 12-wk HIM plan to take me up to UK70.3 (yep, gonna tackle those hills, looking forward to it as it'll be my first Tri A-race) - doing Swashbuckler Mid Distance race late May (local for me as i live in Bournemouth - originally from Sheffield so not a million miles from Notts) & then doing my first full IM in Cozumel in Nov.
Outlaw sounds good - shame about UKIM - can't get too turned-on to race in Bolton but I guess its a major fag organising any race in the UK what with road closure/ uncooperative local authorities etc so if Bolton step-up with the readies then all good I guess - Bournemouth or Poole would be an excellent location (even Weymouth perhaps)! :-)
If you need any input on the Team etc then let me know. Have fun, Dave
Hiya fellow internationals I am in New Zealand, just got through winter and now enjoying (?) and extremely windy spring. I am training for IMNZ in March - will be my 4th visit, first time using EN plan
I'm just joining EN and thus quite late to the thread. I'm in the US Army and recently moved to the base in Vicenza, Italy. I'm hanging out in the mountains in Afghanistan right now so the only training I get is lots of hill repeats. I'll be back in a few weeks to a brand new bike (with quarq, yay for powermeter) and wheelset ready to train for IM Switzerland in July11.
Michelle - Elly and I are in Toronto - but do most of our racing in the ottawa area - my mom lives in Brockville - somersualt series. I think maybe we can get tog in teh summer?
. Help us get our team numbers up while you watch your watts climb over the outseason!
And I'll see you on the Ontario circuit ... we're incredibly lucky to have one of the most robust endurance sport scenes in North America thanks to the likes of Trisport Canada, Sommersault, Multisport Canada and others.
Hi guys, I've just joined EN. I am in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It is inland and between Melbourne and Sydney.
I think there are a couple of other Aussies in EN. I bought a 20 week HIM in May 2010 and was so impressed that I joined. Hope to do Irnonman Australia in 2012 — can't do an ironman befoe then in Australia because they sell out in less than a day.
Hi - Another Aussie here.....just on the "5 day trial" but am most certainly going to join up at the end of it. Peter - no kidding about getting into races here.......I was driving back to Adelaide from Canberra HIM last Dec and made all my travelling companions stay overnight in Mildura just so I could be on line at 10am AEDT to get my IMWA slot. !! Crazy times.
Hey Jane - great name - there is a cdn contingent as well. I am going to be in NSW and VIC in Feb 2012 - is there any racing at that time of year there? I think we'll miss Bussleton and be too early for Port Macquarrie.
Mildura, there's a place I haven't heard of for a a while! I was an exchange student in Shepparton a trillion years ago. Was thrilled to hear that Brett Lancaster went to the same HS I did (10 years later!)
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jay our Intl users aren't the most active online. I think we have somewhere between 10-15 folks...
Just noticed this, sorry! I'm in the UK and freezing my nads off like JC!
Hey Jay - thinking of doing a BBW down in Girona, I can fly cheap (GBP 50.00) on Ryanair from Bournemouth. From Girona you can hit the coast around Valencia or go north into the mountains, are you in southern Spain?
Girona is where a few Pro road teams live/train - Garmin I believe + Mr Armstrong used to have an apartment there.
Be good to connect with all Intl folks.
Dave
PS. Hey Patrick - guess I need to start working you a bit a more?!
I'm in Canada, actually one of two guys from Saskatoon.
Gordon
There's plenty of activity all over the Haus for sure. Enough to make up for what we don't post here anyway.
@Jonathan. Raining more than ever down here in southern Spain this year. Low lying areas are flooded (not me). Airport closed in Jerez yesterday due to flooding and a large secion of the tollway was shut down due to flooding (can you believe that?). Been raining like crazy since the beginning of January so I did my last bike testing in 1 Feb on the trainer in the pain cave. What a wake up call. Tested 6 points below my outside FTP. And that almost killed me! I've stuck with the trainer since. My thinking is that surviving the torture in the pain cave will make me stronger and faster out on the roads. Yes, I used to travel to London about every other month for a week on business, but don't any more. I ran a lot in Hyde Park in the misty rain too! If you don't run in the rain in London you don't run (kinda like Seattle). Normall stayed at the Cumberland hotel.
@Patrick. Fine with me. There's plenty to keep me busy with the other areas (i.e. over 50, November OS. etc.). Never a dull moment in the Haus that's for sure! Answers are available for everything triathlon related (and otherwise). You and Rich have done a superb job of weaving together an abundance of training knowledge and sources. I'm a believer! I'll continue to drink the kool-aid! The two of you deserve to be nominated for an Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year award for your outstanding work. Thank you!
@David. Yes, I'm in El Puerto de Santa Maria. About the only thing farther south is Gibraltar. Yes, Lance trains in Girona and still has a place up there as far as I know. He was down here a couple of years ago and I met him. He grew up close to where I grew up in Texas.
I've flown Ryan Air. Very economical way to fly. You can take short one day flights around Europe for as little as 20 euros. Fly up to Germany and shop and have lunch with the wife and return on the same day. Nice deal.
You wouldn't want to go up into the mountains in northern Spain right now. You'd need a snow plow.
Thanks for responding. Best of luck with your training. It just don't get any better than this!
Jay - Sorry I have not been back to this thread in awhile. Yes all the the cycling has been on the trainer and quite a few of the runs on the treadmill.
Gordon
I'm in Dublin, Ireland and been in the Haus since October last. So far its going well. Doing IMUSA Lake Placid this year - for the third time. Love that race but given there are so many other races around Europe I might chance one of those next.
Now where did I put that ice cream!!!!
Fergus
Looks like I'm late to the call too... I'm in Spain (in between Madrid and Barcelona). It's been a cold winter of trainer workouts, and I hope I'll be able to get out more now... although today it's pouring with rain. I'll be just doing the Half Challenge here in Barcelona (HIM distance race), on May the 16th, and then some olympics around Barcelona and Valencia (my hometown). My biggest challenge this year is my first son, who will be born this week (hopefully).
Un abrazo from Spain,
Jaime
'I'm in Spain (in between Madrid and Barcelona).' - interesting, what does that make you from a football point of view?! Valencia/Barca or Real(!)?
I turns out that for a spaniard I am not a huge soccer fun. I've always been tall and strong for spanish standards, and in school I played a lot of basketball (the "other" sport in Spain). Then I went to the states for some time and brought back American Football, a sport that I helped develop in Spain in its origins (where it still is, 20 years later). So, I know soccer / football, as any good spaniard does, and I root for... whichever team that plays well. I enjoy this year's and last year's Barça (to the delight of my wife, who is from Barcelona), and also Sevilla and Villareal (to the dismay of my father who is a Valencia fan). I never really liked the Real (which makes interesting conversations with my colleagues in Madrid) and the Real Sociedad (from San Sebastian, in the North) used to be my team (in the early eighties) when I was a kid. Ah! Spain and football, only the italians beat us at being so crazy about it.
I'm training towards the "Outlaw" iron-distance event which is based in Nottingham. After my awful experience with IMUK 2009, not
my race time but the organisation, it will be nice to be in my own bed before the race!
Its a sunny, bright and fresh morning here in the UK and I've got a 10K run at 11am, I can't wait!
I'm following the Don Fink competitive plan at the moment, which in some ways follows the EN ethos of training. What I like about the EN method is the simple and concise way the training is laid out and all the BS is taken away. I'm remind of a acronym we use in tech-diving - KISS (keep it simple and simple).
I haven't convinced my wife that joining EN will be a good for me but she's "allowed" me to buy a Fuji D6 so I'm happy that I will be competitive on the bike leg of the "Outlaw".
I'm not sure how or what will happen by joining the EN house but I'm looking forward to the journey!
Regards.
Outlaw sounds good - shame about UKIM - can't get too turned-on to race in Bolton but I guess its a major fag organising any race in the UK what with road closure/ uncooperative local authorities etc so if Bolton step-up with the readies then all good I guess - Bournemouth or Poole would be an excellent location (even Weymouth perhaps)! :-)
If you need any input on the Team etc then let me know.
Have fun,
Dave
I am in New Zealand, just got through winter and now enjoying (?) and extremely windy spring. I am training for IMNZ in March - will be my 4th visit, first time using EN plan
CHeers
Jane
We should definitely get together in the summer--not sure what Somersault races I'll be doing yet. I do plan on doing the Ottawa half marathon in May.
Michelle
More Ontarians!
eam USA vs Team Rest of the World ChallengeFolks, be sure to get in on the T
. Help us get our team numbers up while you watch your watts climb over the outseason!
And I'll see you on the Ontario circuit ... we're incredibly lucky to have one of the most robust endurance sport scenes in North America thanks to the likes of Trisport Canada, Sommersault, Multisport Canada and others.
I think there are a couple of other Aussies in EN. I bought a 20 week HIM in May 2010 and was so impressed that I joined. Hope to do Irnonman Australia in 2012 — can't do an ironman befoe then in Australia because they sell out in less than a day.
Cheers
Peter
Hi - Another Aussie here.....just on the "5 day trial" but am most certainly going to join up at the end of it. Peter - no kidding about getting into races here.......I was driving back to Adelaide from Canberra HIM last Dec and made all my travelling companions stay overnight in Mildura just so I could be on line at 10am AEDT to get my IMWA slot. !! Crazy times.
Mildura, there's a place I haven't heard of for a a while! I was an exchange student in Shepparton a trillion years ago. Was thrilled to hear that Brett Lancaster went to the same HS I did (10 years later!)
Welcome to the Haus!