My Training Starts Tomorrow: The Everyman's Guide to Ironfit Swimming, Cycling, & Running [Paperback]

Roman Mica (Author), Heather H Ramsey (Editor), Randy Fredner (Designer)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 24, 2006

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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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.

From the Author

This book began life as a blog that chronicled my road to from Newbie to Ironman. It reflects the honest chronicle of my continuing quest to find the deepest valleys and scale the highest peaks in the twisting road to endurance sport nirvana.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: PathBinder Publishing, LLC (May 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977623203
• ISBN-13: 978-0977623204
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,540,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too old to become a Triathloner..., July 31, 2006

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Karel Kriz (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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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 of
my 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

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Funny Look at the Sport of Triathlon, July 22, 2006

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Anita Pomerantz (Lutherville, MD) - See all my reviews
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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 ;).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Only 1 problem..., July 20, 2006

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N. Wilde (North Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Training Starts Tomorrow: The Everyman's Guide to Ironfit Swimming, Cycling, & Running (Paperback)

I came across Roman first on his blog and identified strongly as I take my own tentative first steps into Tri. Having read his blog I figured get the book and here's where the problem arose. The book is the blog (or vice versa) so I had already read it. Now, doesn't take away from the writing which is entertaining and informative but I wish that the fact that the book is a collection of blog articles had been clearly stated.