I'll definitely join ya'll at the first opportunity. I'll be happy
with my cycling if I can get to even the same fitness level I was at
during last summer, and since both swimming and running are new to me,
my goals for Lavaman aren't all that lofty (aka - FINISH). That said,
I'm putting in a solid base of running, and after my Saturday swim
lesson I'll hopefully be on my way to more than decent shape, and I
hope to surprise myself race day :)

I'd love to do the TNT time trail course, I'll look for more info on
it - Thanks!

On Dec 11, 2007 11:21 AM, Coach Adam <running_coach@...> wrote:
> 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.
>
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>
> 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.
>
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>
> 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 ;-)
>
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>
> 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?
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>
> 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?
>
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>
> On Dec 11, 2007 11:00 AM, Coach Adam <running_coach@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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>
> 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.
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>
> 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.
>
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>
> How's that for options? J
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> 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/.
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> 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?
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>
> 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:
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> 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!
> ;-)
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>
> 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!!!!
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>
> Hope this helps
>
> -A
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> 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?
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>
> 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).
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