Quote Originally Posted by colby View Post
You guys are making it harder and harder to say I couldn't do an IM in a year, but it seems totally crazy to have done a couple of sprints, a marathon, a few HMs, whatever I do this year, then go straight into IM... nuts I tell you.

I'm really debating HIM this year. I think i could do July or August. I'm just concerned that I have no training plans, I'm doing it all on my own. Maybe that's not so bad...

So, KSH, if you're not convinced yet, I just about am...
Colby, DO AN HIM this year! DO IT! It's laying the base for an IM.

My HIM is in October.

I have a coach... so that's my training plan. Now, I just have to do everything he tells me to do. He gives me one rest day a week, yet somehow I always end up with two. Oopss!

Otherwise, if you join Beginner Triathlete and pay a small fee for the Bronze plan, you can have access to training plans made by a coach. It would be money well spent and cheaper than a coach (although mine is only $85 a month- and he gives me weekly training plans).

Once you get a HIM under you, you can make the decision on the IM. Your HIM will be earlier enough in the year that you can probably find an M Dot IM for 2008.

As for me, unless I do a non-M Dot IM, I can't do an IM until 09.