I've done several sprint tris, and loved them. I've been considering getting prepped for running another next spring, as I'm too out of condition right now to do one.
Okay kids, I have a triathlon on Sunday. I haven't ridden my bike in over a year. I'm not worried about the actual activity (spin class is a fine substitute) but I do worry a little about the mechanics... like my bike actually working for 9 miles! HA!
Anyway, part of me is excited! Yay! Tri! But the other part of me has a 15-month-old and is like booooo, early. I am posting here so that you all keep me accountable and I do it!
A very fit (male) friend of mine just completed his first tri and said, "Omg. This was so much harder than a half marathon." Which kinda made me proud!
YAAAAY!!!! I have my last triathlon of the season on Sunday, too!! Isn't that such a sense of victory? People have NO idea how hard it is until they do it!
It'll only be my 5th time out on my new bikes - so the 15 miles makes me a touch nervous (just the clipping in and out aspect of it.)
GOOD LUCK!!!!
Last edited by SoMuchFattitude; 09-28-2012 at 08:05 AM.
Okay, so the good news is that I RAN the WHOLE 5K which is a first for me. It was hard but I did it. The bad news is that I lost the timing chip during the swim! I almost cried. No splits for me. But I beat my PR by 10 minutes over all (and went up 200 places! It's a big tri!).
It's so funny because I was so dreading the darn tri all month and then, as soon as I started, I was like, "Oh yeah, I love this."
I hadn't ridden my bike (basically a beach cruiser with gears) in a year and a half. It had cobwebs all over it and BOTH sets of brakes were rubbing. I took off the front set (who needs TWO sets of brakes anyway?!) and then had a mechanic at the tri adjust my back set (he was rolling his eyes the whole time). I know my bike time is SLOW. Some of that is the bike, some of that is me.
Here's me! (On the right with my insanely tall friends -- their first tri!): Tri 4 by SweetEnnui, on Flickr
Last edited by Goddess Jessica; 10-03-2012 at 12:54 PM.
Keep my current training program (run 2xs a week, swim 1x a week, yoga 1x a week, strength train 2xs a week). But I'd like to add one more yoga and one spin class.
I'd also like to do a race of some sort a month. Even if it's a 5K. I am thinking of doing a half marathon in February. Maybe.
I'm going to use this off season to really work on my run and build some muscle.
M: Run
T: Spin
W: Run/Weights
T: Off
F: Run
Sat: Swim/Weights
Sun: Ride on my bike (optional)
We will do a race a month - we've got a 5k this month, a 10k and a 4k in November and then we've gotta find more to register for. We'll probably sneak in some bike races/rides, too.
Come the end of Feb I'll start going into a training plan for our May triathlon. We've already chosen 5 for this coming year.
