I am also a newbie to triathlons.

A few years ago, someone was talking about triathlons from work, and I thought, maybe I can do that. So I did one. And I felt super good.

I have always done them on my mountain bike, until this year. And I was slower on my road bike! Or more out of shape!

But this fall is to work on my run, and get into better shape, so I don't fail miserably next year (or just improve my times).

I've done several sprint tris, and loved them. I've been considering getting prepped for running another next spring, as I'm too out of condition right now to do one.

Welcome Orr123 & shea5!

Train train train and you'll be ready for one in no time!

Okay kids, I have a triathlon on Sunday. I haven't ridden my bike in over a year. I'm not worried about the actual activity (spin class is a fine substitute) but I do worry a little about the mechanics... like my bike actually working for 9 miles! HA!

Anyway, part of me is excited! Yay! Tri! But the other part of me has a 15-month-old and is like booooo, early. I am posting here so that you all keep me accountable and I do it!

A very fit (male) friend of mine just completed his first tri and said, "Omg. This was so much harder than a half marathon." Which kinda made me proud!

YAAAAY!!!! I have my last triathlon of the season on Sunday, too!! Isn't that such a sense of victory? People have NO idea how hard it is until they do it!

It'll only be my 5th time out on my new bikes - so the 15 miles makes me a touch nervous (just the clipping in and out aspect of it.)

GOOD LUCK!!!!

I beat my PR by 5:10!!! I am SO pleased with that!!!

I'm going to use the off season to work on my run, build some muscle and drop some pounds!

Okay, so the good news is that I RAN the WHOLE 5K which is a first for me. It was hard but I did it. The bad news is that I lost the timing chip during the swim! I almost cried. No splits for me. But I beat my PR by 10 minutes over all (and went up 200 places! It's a big tri!).

It's so funny because I was so dreading the darn tri all month and then, as soon as I started, I was like, "Oh yeah, I love this."

I hadn't ridden my bike (basically a beach cruiser with gears) in a year and a half. It had cobwebs all over it and BOTH sets of brakes were rubbing. I took off the front set (who needs TWO sets of brakes anyway?!) and then had a mechanic at the tri adjust my back set (he was rolling his eyes the whole time). I know my bike time is SLOW. Some of that is the bike, some of that is me.

Here's me! (On the right with my insanely tall friends -- their first tri!):

Tri 4 by SweetEnnui, on Flickr

Goddess Jessica - WOOHOO on running the whole 5k! I hate running, so I plan to focus on that for the off season!

Congrats on beating your PR!

Do you have any off season plans?

Off season plans:

Keep my current training program (run 2xs a week, swim 1x a week, yoga 1x a week, strength train 2xs a week). But I'd like to add one more yoga and one spin class.

I'd also like to do a race of some sort a month. Even if it's a 5K. I am thinking of doing a half marathon in February. Maybe.

What about you?

I'm going to use this off season to really work on my run and build some muscle.

M: Run
T: Spin
W: Run/Weights
T: Off
F: Run
Sat: Swim/Weights
Sun: Ride on my bike (optional)

We will do a race a month - we've got a 5k this month, a 10k and a 4k in November and then we've gotta find more to register for. We'll probably sneak in some bike races/rides, too.

Come the end of Feb I'll start going into a training plan for our May triathlon. We've already chosen 5 for this coming year.

Let me know how your off season goes!

Five triathlons!? Holy Jebus!

Haha! They're all sprint distances. When I get to my goal I want to do an Olympic. What about you?

Definitely an Olympic distance. The only thing I dread is the bike with that. UGH!

It's the run I dread. ugh.

I read that they took the Athena division out of the Ironman distance! WHAT?!

Omigosh. I just stumbled upon this blog entry today and it made me laugh so hard, I had to share.

http://planetmort.wordpress.com/2012...an-the-finger/