- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Pathbinder Publishing, LLC (May 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0977623203
- ISBN-13: 978-0977623204
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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#1,104,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #94 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Exercise & Fitness > Triathlons
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My Training Starts Tomorrow: The Everyman's Guide to Ironfit Swimming, Cycling, & Running is a guide for the everyday triathlete. Offered on its pages are vignettes and advice derived from the author's experience as a Clydesdale triathlete. Mica goes the extra mile by meshing in words of advice beyond swimming, cycling and running-including: purchasing a bike, detailed race reports (complete with ratings), top-ten secrets to a personal best, crediting Ironsherpas, and much more. This book is the honest chronicle of the author's continuing quest to find the deepest valleys and scale the highest peaks in the twisting road to endurance sport nirvana.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Why Swimming is Fun (and other stories),
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This review is from: My Training Starts Tomorrow: The Everyman's Guide to Ironfit Swimming, Cycling, & Running (Paperback)
I arrived home from the pool on a thunderstorm filled day to find _My Training Starts Tomorrow_ in my mailbox. That was perfect, really, as I had plenty of power failure time in which to read it cover to cover. I laughed. I cried. (Really I cried because I was laughing so hard!) I sympathized. And I recommend it heartily.This is not the biography of a professional athlete, nor is it written by a professional writer. These are excerpts and musings from the blog of a Clydesdale of a man who believes that ironfitness is its own reward -- but a personal best is always good. Written with wit and humour, there are also poignant moments, as this is a sport in which accidents happen and people push their bodies beyond their limits. Reading this chronicle is something like sitting down with an old friend. Whether you are a triathlete, aspire to be one, support a family member or friend who "tris", or simply admire those who push themselves in pursuit of achievable and measurable sporting goals, this book has something for you.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (17 customer reviews) 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Too old to become a Triathloner...,
By Karel Kriz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Training Starts Tomorrow: The Everyman's Guide to Ironfit Swimming, Cycling, & Running (Paperback)
Oh no, I will not become in my seventieth a Triathloner after reading R. Mica's book. I am quite content to do swimming, biking, running as separate activities without packaging them together in one frightening act. As you figured out I don't race anymore in either one of those sports, anyway. This said I am grateful to the author for bringing me back the memories ofmy old competitive times. In Mica's book all is there: the struggles and joys of training runs, pre-race anxieties and especially the camaraderie of all the participants. Yes, each race is run twice - first time as a real physical one, second time as an exchange storytelling among the beer drinking buddies. Thus it was, it has been and it will be in the future regardless what sports the girls, boys will compete in. However, there is a good news even for the "couch-potatoes"; I guarantee this book, so well written, with a gentle humor will produce smiles on your "TV tube-shaped" faces without any help of the "canned laughs". Maybe even, you will feel an urge to take a bike ride or a short run, swim. All good books inspire the readers to some unexpected actions. Mica's book has a power to do such miracles.. Karel Kriz, Boulder 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Puts You At Ease,
By Lynn's Daughter "Lynn's Daughter" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Training Starts Tomorrow: The Everyman's Guide to Ironfit Swimming, Cycling, & Running (Paperback)
Reading Roman Mica's book makes one feel at ease. He writes humbly about the experiences he's had and silly mistakes he's made, and he writes it in a way that keeps your attention. This will put anyone at ease who worries that they "can't" do a triathlon, or worries about not being athletic enough to compete in amateur athletics.
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A Very Funny Look at the Sport of Triathlon,
By Anita Pomerantz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Training Starts Tomorrow: The Everyman's Guide to Ironfit Swimming, Cycling, & Running (Paperback)
If you've ever raced a tri or thought about racing one, you'll love this book. It's a series of essays about one man's experience with triathlon. The author has a great, self-effacing sense of humor, and if you've ever done a tri you know how it is an athletic event with lots of potential for disaster.The cross of humor and disaster makes for some great (and quick) reading. The chapter entitled the "Hardest Start of Them All" actually made me have faith. The author describes his feelings during the swim portion of the race . . .and let me tell you, I feel that exact same way on the swim. I've only done sprints so far, but am training for an Olympic distance race in September. The problem is I am actually PETRIFIED about the swim. Even though I swim for well over an hour in the pool, no problem (ok, minimal problems), I am 100% sure I'm going to drown during the race. The feeling doesn't abate until I am actually heading back toward the shore. It gives me hope to read that I'm not the only one and that somehow the author managed to tackle longer distances despite the panic. You'll see yourself in this book, too. And feel better that you aren't alone ;). |
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