Daniel Tomko - Welcome and Bio

[rmakela]

Please join me in officially welcoming Daniel Tomko to the team. As many of you know, Daniel has been training at Swim4Tri for some time, and (among many other races) he competed in the Clearwater 70.3 Championship with several team members last fall. Daniel is now officially a team member, and has agreed to join the Board as the Workout Coordinator. Great to have you on board Daniel, and nice race pic.

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Daniel Tomko knew he would be a triathlete the instant he learned of Ironman circa 1989, but didn’t attempt the sport until a sprint event in 2005. He has found triathlon to be so much fun he is still wondering what took him so long but was busy cycling, alpine climbing and backcountry skiing in the interim. He enjoys about any sport that requires a healthy dose of endurance, from cycling and running to adventure racing and ski mountaineering racing. When not training for endurance sports he can be found playing with his two children, brewing beer, taking photographs, or playing piano. Daniel's favorite triathlon events are IMCdA and the Wildflower Long Course, and he has competed in 5 sprints, 2 Olympics, one IM, and 6 HIM events. Daniel's favorite piece of Triathlon equipment is anything swim related because he’s still so new to the event. His goal for 2010 is mostly just to have fun, but along the way hopes to qualify for Cat 3 on the track, keep to improving in the water, increase his running mileage.

[HansLund]

"Alpine Climbing and Brewing Beer" - sooo happy to have you on board, assuming you are brewing from scratch

Cheers, Hans

[benbiggles]

Welcome Daniel.....hmmmm let me think about some new swim related 'equipment' for you

[DanielT]

New swim related equipment: yeah, I could use some new and improved form. That's why I'm at swim4tri. Making progress, still a long way to go.

Brewing: depends on what you mean from scratch. I used to brew exclusively all-grain, so yes, more or less from scratch. Never got into malting my own barley... These days I've stepped it back a bit to mostly brew with extract. All-grain is fun, but very time consuming. Extract is much easier to do in a couple of hours after the kids go to bed.

Alpine climbing: Triathlon actually started out as a way for me to cross train for long climbs in the Cascades but it slowly kinda took over. But I've still got my sights on the mountains. I hear there are other climbers on the team. Maybe we'll have to put together a Team VO2 climb sometime.

[HansLund]

I meant NO EXTRACTS!

Anyway, the team for sure needs more beer drinkers and I am guessing you can step up to the plate on that front

[Lee]

Daniel - Since you are the new workout coordinator, I expect you to be on the Saturday morning ride this week.

Welcome to the team.....

[DanielT]

Hehe. Yes, it's quite possible that I'll be there on Saturday.

But on the workout coordinator thing, you'll be hearing from me very soon.

[capnkirk]

Welcome Daniel! Look forward to meeting you.

capn kirk