Book Idea for those wanting to move their bodies

I'm reading a fantastic book right now I wanted to share with you. It's
called "Slow Fat Triathlete" by Jayne Williams. The subtitle is,
"Pursue Your Athletic Dreams in the Body You Have Now".

http://www.slowfattriathlete.com/

It's not only funny, it's inspiring and instructive. I had already
decided to do a triathlon when I found this book, and it's helping me to
figure out ways to make that goal come true. I'm a big one for setting
goals and visualizing how I'm going to get there and then implementing
the plan: this is just the sort of book I love. I just thought others
here might find it useful, too.

Just a word about triathlons: I'm really attracted to the triathlon
concept because it seems aimed at people whose main attribute is a
willingness to show up and move. Hardly anyone is an expert at all
three events so it is more open to people who are kind of bad at it. In
fact, there's a very positive focus on being a winner just for showing
up an "tri-ing".

The three events are swimming, cycling and running. The distance I'm
doing is called a "sprint" because it's half a mile of swimming (about
20 laps of a standard pool) and 20K of cycling (12 miles) and 5K of
running (3.1 miles), in other words, about half an hour of each
activity. Each piece seems attainable to a generalist like me, and the
cross-training aspects of the sport make it more attractive as I age and
balance which part is overused at any given moment. :-)

As funny as that sounds, this is a very serious concern for me: when my
ankle hurts I swim. When my shoulder hurts I run. At the moment my
shoulder hurts and my foot hurts, so I'm cycling. I'm going to grow
old no matter what I do, so it makes sense to come up with some
contingency plans, IMO.

I'm one of those people who needs to pick a race so I'll train for it,
rather than vice versa. (There are definitely people who train so they
can do well in races, but I race so I will do well in training, if you
understand the distinction.)

HTH

Delenn

"Delenn" wrote in message
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I'm reading a fantastic book right now I wanted to share with you. It's
called "Slow Fat Triathlete" by Jayne Williams. The subtitle is,
"Pursue Your Athletic Dreams in the Body You Have Now".

http://www.slowfattriathlete.com/

It's not only funny, it's inspiring and instructive. I had already
decided to do a triathlon when I found this book, and it's helping me to
figure out ways to make that goal come true. I'm a big one for setting
goals and visualizing how I'm going to get there and then implementing
the plan: this is just the sort of book I love. I just thought others
here might find it useful, too.

I've read her experience in buying her first wetsuit. It was hilarious.

Are you following any particular training schedule? Have you ever
considered one of the Team In Training programs? They have several of those
around here. I've often been tempted to join one for training in a bike
century. The current training in this area is for a century held in Nevada
in June.

Beverly

"Delenn" wrote in message
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I'm reading a fantastic book right now I wanted to share with you. It's
called "Slow Fat Triathlete" by Jayne Williams. The subtitle is, "Pursue
Your Athletic Dreams in the Body You Have Now".

http://www.slowfattriathlete.com/

Thanks for the recommendation. There's a mini-tri up here that I'd like to
do some year, probably next since this summer is already overbooked

Jenn