Survived wk 1 of Triathlon Training April 9, 2008
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Made it through my first week of tri training -an accomplishment as the “quit factor” could have been high - particularly if I had found myself the only beginner in the group. Thankfully, I was not the lone beginner. Five people in my group, all beginner triathletes with the common goal to participate in the Dunedin Sprint Triathlon on June 8th. We train at the YMCA - M,W,F in the evenings from 7-8pm. Coach Tim is great, he’s very personable and supportive and provides good assessments/tips on our areas for improvement. The week started out with a grueling (for me) 3 mile run, I speed walked about 1/3 of it and thought my head was going to explode - breathing technique probably needs work. And here I was thinking that my tennis playing had my endurance up higher than it apparently was …rude awakening, but puts things in perspective (in other words, I have a long way to go!)
Wed night training we stationary biked for 1/2 hr doing some hills, and then immediately ran 1 mile. Legs were rubbery at start of run, but amazingly that felt like it helped and I was able to run further than I expected, though still walked about 1/8mi.
Friday we swam and this was, by far, the best of the three legs for me and got some good tips from Tim on stretching my arms further and getting more “glide” out of the stroke. Regained some of my confidence and now I’m really stoked! I’m now travelling for business for a few days and missing two training sessions-boo hoo - this has required some self-motivation to train and continue to eat right while away, but so far so good - I ran 3.1 miles with a 2 ascension on treadmill in hotel gym last nite. Can’t wait to get back to normal training sessions as I do miss the group comraderie!
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Congrats on your first week!