Mike Llerandi

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Hometown:: Ridgewood, NJ

About Me:: An over-40 husband, father, sales guy & triathlete looking to contribute to the quality of the network.

Three constants in my life over the past 20+ years:
- My wife Alyson
- the IT industry, and
- Multi-sport training & racing

My athletic bio: http://mike.llerandi.org
My LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpl201

Key Race for 2008:: Kona

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Really Cool Blog Post: "Is it worth it?"

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New Race on the Fall Calendar: Westchester Toughman HIM

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At 2:37pm on June 23rd, 2008, Koosha said…: Hi Mike:
I had a quick question. I am leaving the country this weekend for three weeks. Unfortunately i am not going to have any access to bike and perhaps have limited time to train. I am currently on week 16 pre-season training. I was wondering if you could help me with what kind of work out i should do in these three weeks since i don't have a bike and limited time. I don't want to come back and have trouble with my biking and heart rate. I will have access to gym and can do some lifting, swimming, and running. If you could give me some advise of what type of work out i should have, i will greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
Koosha

At 3:46am on June 19th, 2008, Karen Finnerty said…: ok then! have fun and i hope everything is smooth makin getting ready for kona a lot less stressful.
i got a clearwater spot at honu...wasnt the kona spot, but ok ill take it anyway. next year i can go for the resident spot...i was short 6 months.
hows the weather in clearwater? do you get to swim in a wetsuit there?
also are they any races...anykine races...between june 27-july8 nearby to home?

At 3:09pm on June 16th, 2008, Bryan McDonnell said…: Thank you for the advice, Mike. I went ahead and signed up today. I am definitely going to cut the training this week to about 8-10 hours, and really focus on swimming. I do want to try to get another ride over 70 miles in again, so looks like in two weekends I'll head out for that.
Thanks again for your help and support.
Here goes...

At 3:50pm on June 15th, 2008, Bryan McDonnell said…: Hey Mike
I wanted to ask your opinion on some upcoming races. So far this year I have done St. Anthonys, Eagleman, and Wyckoff. 4 weeks from today is the new Providence 70.3, and registration is still open. I am debating signing up for this race and want to know what you think. I have no other BIG races planned. 2 weeks after Providence, I have on Olympic distance. Other than that, maybe one or two sprints in August/September. I have the opportunity to qualify for Clearwater at Providence, if not, then a late season marathon.
Basically, I am concerned that 4 weeks won't be long enough for proper recovery given the 2 HARD races in the last week, and that racing another half so soon will do more harm than good.
Any input would be great! Thanks!

At 2:11pm on June 15th, 2008, Barbara Reuven said…: Mike,
My daughter helped me figure out the problem with my computer.....it was the browser.....I am now using firefox instead of internet explorer,,,,,,(Thank goodness for having computer savvy kids......the problem with other browser which I used from my e-mail is that it kept putting me in as signed in automatically. I am not that computer savvy so maybe you understand what the problem was. In any case I was now able to navigate the web site and joined NJ Tri group (yea !!). Its been nice chatting with you, maybe I'll meet you one day. My friends have signed me up to do the running leg of a relay team at Brigantine Island Tri (we'll see....I think I also am ready to try to get in the water, starting with total immersion drills on my side, let you know how it goes.....I get my hard neck collar off in 1 wk and 1/2.
Thanks again for you patience
Barbara

At 12:56pm on June 13th, 2008, Barbara Reuven said…: Hey Mike,
Just to let you know, I don't receive any message when I try to join the north jersye group.
Anyway it looks like you are doing Wykoff (did it last year and had a lot of fun) Have fun tommorrow.
Barbara

At 9:46pm on June 12th, 2008, Karen Finnerty said…: good luck next weekend at CdA! i dont have internet so wanted to make sure i got my good lucks in just in case...kill em!

At 8:33am on June 12th, 2008, Alex Dayton said…: Edit - I meant to say 7:30 - 7:50 run pace...

At 8:32am on June 12th, 2008, Alex Dayton said…: Mike - believe it or not, I'm a much better sprint swimmer than long distance. I went to state as a freshman in the 100yd backstroke, and usually swim the 200 IM & 100 fly also - I was close to qualifying for both of those as well, but broke my arm in the middle of swim season and missed a month. I'm about a 12:00 minute 800m swimmer in sprint tri's.
Last fall in cross country my best 5k was 19:50, but I'm considerably faster now - I'm guessing 18:00 - 18:30-ish. My run is my weak spot for sure. The last tri I did in May I was 11th in the swim, 16th in the bike, but 63rd in the run (24th overall out of out of 237).
I know I need to work on run speed, my endurance is pretty good. I can run forever at about a 7:50 - 7:50 pace (last 1/2 marathon was 1:43 as a 13yr old), but need to work on shorter/faster. Any tips?
I'm pretty good at cycling - I can average 23-24mph for a 20k bike leg, which is pretty competitive in the tri's around here. This is my first year racing, and I've improved hugely since I started.
thanks again for this site -

At 11:23pm on June 11th, 2008, Barbara Reuven said…: Sorry Mike, the site does not want ,me to join North Jersey, Laura's e-mail is hammerhouse@att.net......if you could let her know how to post Greenbrook Racing's events that would be great....Our next event is Patenella's Flat as Pancake in Stanten Island on June 28, if you haven't done this race, it is a lot of fun. Joe Patenella is a great friend of ours and co-worker, we are all PTs, Joe will be doing Iron Man Lake Placid this year...check out our web site at www.greenbrookracing.com. PS the reason I have so much time on my hands is that I had a horrific bike accident on 3/23......I broke my neck and B arms as well as my pelvis....1 medi vac and 2 surgeries later (including a neck fusion and plates in my arms) I am trying to get back into sport, but I have a long road ahead of me. If you know any other people who have had serious injuries and have gotten back into competing, I would love to talk to them.... In the meantime thanks for you prompt corospondence. Barbara

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