My suggestion is to just come out and join in when you can. The more you participate, the more you will improve. You can always shorten or lengthen the distance of any ride and you'll find that by riding longer than you might think is necessary, you'll be incredibly empowered for your Olympic distance race. We had folks come out that were racing sprint distance with those racing Ironman. They both added value. There is also a database that has been started to identify a bunch of the toughest hills in Westchester to train on and for doing hill intervals, you can be training for most any distance especially this early in the season.

 

Post what you are planning on doing and we'll post what we're doing and I'm sure there will be multiple opportunities in the coming months to get together and improve. Also, I know there is the TNT time trail course that you might think about using to do an early season evaluation, so you can later measure progress. Eve and others can tell you exactly where that is.

 

The one caveat is that when we multi-sport athletes join in with the regular WCC Rides, we found early on last year that we needed to wear signs on our backs that read something like "Warning, the person wearing this may actually talk to you; please prepare in advance so you don't ride off the road." We also don't think about stopping at rest stops as part of our normal riding, since rest stops are hard to find during our races. And they don't seem to understand when we ask where on the cue sheet is the bottle exchange ;-)

 

From: WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Katie Marshall
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:09 AM

To: WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [WCCTriathlon] What events in 2008?

 

That sounds great.  But, I'm using a level 3 Olympic training plan and you guys are way out of my league. Maybe next year. Or, maybe some of us lightweights could form a sub group.  What do you think?

On Dec 11, 2007 11:00 AM, Coach Adam <running_coach@...> wrote:

I know Diane and obviously have raced along side her many times. It's actually kind of funny. We both have many of the same friends and yet we've never been formally introduced. It's one of those funny things where a neighbor of mine will say "I just saw Diane at the club and she said she really wants to meet you." Or me saying to another mutual friend, "I heard Diane got really sick last month and it took her out of her training. How's she doing?" I think I know more about Diane's training than some of the folks that I coach.  It's a little Tom Hanks in You've Got Mail J

 

As for training, last season we posted bricks on this forum whenever we were going to do them, including a 8-mile time trial run from 9W to Lake Tiorati, a Harriman. Bear Mountain Brick, a bunch of WCC rides that we turned into bricks just by letting folks know that was an option, and even the Montauk Century we treated as a brick and ran around the lake after we were done before getting on the train to go back to Babylon.

 

We'll also be doing the Lehigh Valley Half Marathon and turning that into a biathlon of sorts as one of our team members has a lake house so we turn the weekend into a bit of a tri camp with open water swimming, riding and the half marathon, and then I'll be going out to Los Angeles in March to turn the LA Marathon into a brick workout as well with a few of the Race with Purpose team members and a number of the team members on the USC Triathlon team.

 

As for Tupper Lake weekend, we race on Saturday and then we have a house in Placid so on Sunday morning, we ride off one or more loops of the IMLP bike course and follow it up with a swim in Mirror Lake before heading back down south.

 

How's that for options? J

 

You can check out racing options for us at my blog at www.racewithpirpose.org/coachadam and you can also look at Javier's site as he updates his training regularly at http://www.operationironman.com/.

 

 

From: WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Katie Marshall
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:19 AM
To: WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [WCCTriathlon] What events in 2008?

 

I train with folks in Northern Westchester mostly.  There is a Masters swim at Club Fit Jefferson Valley.  Some of us are very serious and place ag, but most of us are in it for self challenge.   WCC has not posted rides specifically for tri training and I think it could be a way to get new people into the sport.    Adam, do you guys train with Diane C?  She is a friend and I taught her kids.

On Dec 11, 2007 10:04 AM, Coach Adam < running_coach@...> wrote:

Congrats Josh. There are a bunch of us that are out here, although only a smaller group actually gets together to train on a regular basis together (Javier, Jackie, Eve, etc…). It's a great group of people, very supportive of each other and very interested in each other's success.

 

During the winter most of us are doing base training but there are still opportunities to ride. For example this Saturday, I'll be riding down into the city from Scarsdale and then running the little NYRR Holiday 4-miler in Central Park before heading back up. There is also a new coach over at the White Plains YMCA leading the masters swim classes if that is of interest to you. On Sunday's you can find a bunch of us over at Rockies starting from SHHS anywhere from 7am to 8:30am based on your preference and schedule.

 

In short, Westchester is a great place to train for triathlon (Screw Austin! ;-)

 

As for races, a fairly large group is going to be training for and racing the Tupper Lake Half Iron and a few people like Javier will be doing their first Ironman this season, GO JAVIER!!!!

 

Hope this helps

-A

 

From: WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Josh Salit
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:52 AM
To: WCCTriathlon@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WCCTriathlon] What events in 2008?

 

The response to Katie's talk of tri training on WCCChat made me wonder
who's out there - so, who's doing what events next year? I'm doing my
first tri in April (lavaman).