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ShannonG
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 Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:03 Post subject: somebody's thinking about Ironman....
Pug has started two IM threads in as many days. I'm betting he does it waaaay before he's 40.
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Pug
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:14 Post subject:
Dude, I can't swim! 
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marathonrnr262
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:16 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | | Dude, I can't swim! |
Dudette
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jrjo
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:17 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | | Dude, I can't swim! |
Time.to.learn.
You live in the Land of 10,000 Lakes fer cryin' out loud!! 
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Pug
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:19 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | Pug wrote: | | Dude, I can't swim! |
Time.to.learn.
You live in the Land of 10,000 Lakes fer cryin' out loud!! |
I even have at least two lakes within a half mile of my home.
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Happy2tri
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:36 Post subject:
I couldn't swim 5 years ago, and now I have 3 IMs under my belt..........you could learn
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:39 Post subject:
| Happy2tri wrote: | | I couldn't swim 5 years ago, and now I have 3 IMs under my belt..........you could learn |
Now I'm impressed.
Where were you at when you started to learn to swim? I mean, did you have already logged tons of bike miles and ran multiple marathons or were you at a moderate level of training and with the swimming decided to ratchet it up?
When did you do your first IM?
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robp
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:40 Post subject:
| Happy2tri wrote: | | I couldn't swim 5 years ago, and now I have 3 IMs under my belt..........you could learn |
You're my hero. Having to re-learn my incredibly poor swimming technique is a major obstacle in my head when I think about tri's.
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Happy2tri
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:45 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | | Happy2tri wrote: | | I couldn't swim 5 years ago, and now I have 3 IMs under my belt..........you could learn |
Now I'm impressed.
Where were you at when you started to learn to swim? I mean, did you have already logged tons of bike miles and ran multiple marathons or were you at a moderate level of training and with the swimming decided to ratchet it up?
When did you do your first IM? |
first tri was a sprint one, and did it on a mountain bike, came out of the water 2nd to last just so happy to be alive......I used to race mountain bikes but never road biked until I started competing in tris, started with a road bike and then got a tri bike about 2.5 years ago, I have run marathons since college so the running was the easier and more natural part for me.
Dancer on the other hand had not run a marathon before her signing up for the first IM, she ran one during the first 6 months of training for the IM.
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Happy2tri
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:45 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | Happy2tri wrote: | | I couldn't swim 5 years ago, and now I have 3 IMs under my belt..........you could learn |
You're my hero. Having to re-learn my incredibly poor swimming technique is a major obstacle in my head when I think about tri's. |
NO Rob you are my hero!!!
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Noley
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:47 Post subject:
| Happy2tri wrote: | | I couldn't swim 5 years ago, and now I have 3 IMs under my belt..........you could learn |
OMG.
BOTH YOU AND DANCER ARE DEFINITELY MY HEROS!
I'M NOT LYING!
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Happy2tri
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:49 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | | Happy2tri wrote: | | I couldn't swim 5 years ago, and now I have 3 IMs under my belt..........you could learn |
OMG.
BOTH YOU AND DANCER ARE DEFINITELY MY HEROS!
I'M NOT LYING! |
Could we be the wind beneath your wings as well??? 
thanks for the nice words!!
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Noley
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:53 Post subject:
| Happy2tri wrote: | | nolefan85 wrote: | | Happy2tri wrote: | | I couldn't swim 5 years ago, and now I have 3 IMs under my belt..........you could learn |
OMG.
BOTH YOU AND DANCER ARE DEFINITELY MY HEROS!
I'M NOT LYING! |
Could we be the wind beneath your wings as well???
thanks for the nice words!! |
I tell you what. If I ever get my life in order and can start tri training again...I want Dancer behind my right wing and you behind my left. I'll be sure to finish with perservence and Can-Do Attitude. It seems fitting that a torpedo like her and clown like you would be all the wind I'd need.
I just dream of the day where I can live out this "DREAM".
One day...one day...perhaps?
I'll count on the two of you for that "wind"
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:57 Post subject:
BTW.
SHELDON & TRIBOB can rooting me on inside my head. I always get great comments from the two of them with what I do!
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Happy2tri
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Posted: 07/28/05 - 12:57 Post subject:
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I'll count on the two of you for that "wind"
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After 6 plus hours of drinking Accelerage we both have plenty of wind!!!!!!!!!!!
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