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It's the ICE Breaker Tri at Granite Bay/Folsom Lake.

I'm doing another one in June. It's called the Mermaid Tri and it's in Fremont (my backyard) but it's shorter than a typical Sprint tri. It's 400 m swim (instead of 800 m), 11 mi bike (instead of 13) and 2.5 mi run (instead of 3.1). Plus it's all women and it's very relaxed. So it's a good one to start with.

Here's the web site:

http://www.mermaidtriathlon.com/09/index.html

I kind of wish I'd picked this one as my first one. My first one has a 4 mile run so it's going to be a bit of a stretch for me!

That's good advice. Right now I am recovering from a lower body lift and I feel like my abs are going to hurt forever. I have started swimming laps, but I haven't tried running or biking yet. Where is the triathalon that you signed up for already? Good luck.


Dianna

Hey, you've got a face now! Awesome.

Heh, people were *****ing about this on every WLS board I go on last week.

I don'****ch TBL because I hate the show. I think they purposely design the challenges to make the contestants look ridiculous, much of the nutritional advice given out on the show is questionable, their workout regime is also questionable, and the whole premise of the show is that anyone can lose weight if they just work hard enough, because people are fat because they are ignorant and lazy.

Which gets to Ron's and Kristin's comments. I am not the least bit surprised the show aired them because they support their premise -- people are MO because they are lazy and won't eat right and exercise. Another contestant on the show made the comment in an interview when she was voted off that she went on the show to avoid gastric bypass.

That's the attitude of the show, in a nutshell ... doing it anyway but our way is a cop-out.

I was surprised that Ron made the comment that he did though. OTOH, he clearly hasn't worked his surgery so maybe he did think it would be a magic pill when he got it. However, he was in the 500s when he got the surgery and is in the 400s now so I do think he's lost weight with his RnY. Just not enough to not think of it as a failure.

I know that some people have never had much luck dieting and so surgery, for them, is easier. I don't think this is "taking the easy way out", myself. It's doing something effective instead of doing something ineffective. But I can see how they would see it that way and how that wouldn't be a bad thing for them.

For me, I am working harder than I ever have with any diet. I have always lost weight on diets and found them relatively easy if I could get into the zone. Dieting is not my problem. Maintenance is my problem.

So the fact that I'm losing weight isn't enough for me to think WLS is easier than a diet because I could have done that without WLS.

So I don't think this is the easy way out at all. But I do think it's a way out and I'm grateful to have found it.

I sure will!! I haven't been to any meetings since my RNY. So I really do need to make it a point to attend one! Hope to see you in April!