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Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays
 
no snow 🙁

cant believe this semester has gone by soooo fast !! It seemed like it was over in a bleep.. Looking back at my 2007 academic planner tells a different story 🙂 Time to buy a new one...
 
MrMattOglesby said:
yes...i hope you enjoyed your winter solstice too!
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ironman,

can you talk little about your training regimen? It is something I want to get into after years of doing tons of endurance activities. I feel like I cant give my 100% with all the other stuff going on and its holding me back. Plus, I cant seem to work my diet around just eating veggie food
 
Training for an ironman is almost a full-time job for most people. You probably need to give 15-20 hours/week if you just want to finish one. Have you done any shorter distance triathlons before?
 
i do pretty well running 10Ks around Town Lake and was offered to join the UT crew. For past few months, I have been cross training with gym bikes and rowing machines.

But never done any triathlons. Just because I cant really dedicate myself to truly show my potential. I dont just want to do races for the heck of saying that I can do triathlons. If I did triathlons, i would want nothing but #1 spot and leave others in dust. There is some thrill in passing others in endurance races. 🙂
 
hey its interesting TexasTri responded by saying training for an ironman is like a job...because i just got an email from a training partner:

he wrote:

I don't want to do this anymore... it has become like a job...

I responded:

haha maybe youre training excessively without sufficient recovery time...hence the burnout feeling?
thats my guess. or maybe you just plateau-ed and arent making any progress...in which case, you might want to mix up your training.
i gotta tell ya--my main focus right now is completing med school applications. i am supplementing my time with exercise. it gives me a chance to break away from it all. so maybe you need to have more than just training going on for you. go find your passion and get caught up in that, then use exercise as a way to keep you in top shape so that you can appreciate the other things that much more.
just my two cents.
 
Porco: that feeling passes pretty quickly, once you do some races with some pros. Even if you have that kind of talent, it takes years before you can work up to that level of proficiency.

The first thing you have to get used to as a beginner triathlete is the face that there are girls who can wipe the floor with you. Hell, Natascha Badmann and Desiree Ficker have dropped tour de france riders on the bike at ironman races before, so its nothing to be ashamed of. Just hard to accept at first.

You start out competing with yourself. Trying to improve your splits from race to race. Trying to improve your performance by doing multiple races at the same venue. Then, after a few years, if you're good, you'll see the same people finishing in the top 20-30 at every race, and you'll maybe start gunning for them.

It is going to be different from place to place, but in a triathlon mecca like Texas, you've got top pros at every race. California, Colorado, etc. will be the same way. I'm talking about former college cross-country or swimming all-americans and people along those lines. So dominating right off the bat is going to be impossible.

If you're really talented, you could place within your age group once or twice.
 
I completed 3 consecutive ironmans in 20 minutes total. Is that good?
 
You would have had to average roughly 1265.4 mph over the duration of the race to accomplish that. That includes transitions.

The very best triathletes will be lucky to average 23-24 mph on the bike on an iron-distance race. The best way to bury your competition would be to time your sonic booms for when you are passing people. That can really throw someone off their game.
 
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TexasTriathlete said:
You would have had to average roughly 1265.4 mph over the duration of the race to accomplish that. That includes transitions.

The very best triathletes will be lucky to average 23-24 mph on the bike on an iron-distance race. The best way to bury your competition would be to time your sonic booms for when you are passing people. That can really throw someone off their game.
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haha. I was kidding. I don't know too much about triathletes and what not.
 
I wonder how big of a chainring, assuming you're turning the crank at 90 rpm, you would need in order to achieve that speed.
 
And a Happy New Year!! 😀
 
I am getting really sick of the holidays.. I want the adcoms back at schools now!!
 
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