Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Tri Training...

I have another 'catch up' post coming soon (hopefully!), but, in the mean time, I thought I'd share some goals...

I'm doing my first triathlon in 32 days and since I've been doing my boot camps in June, I totally put off my tri training. I running this morning (with the kiddos in the double stroller--oh, it's not fun!) and I went swimming this evening. I'm doing a sprint triathlon (thank heavens!) so I have to swim a 1/2 mile and honestly, I know this is pathetic, but I haven't swam yet this year! Anyway, in the smaller pool at the health club I work at, you have to swim 24 laps to equal a half a mile!!! This is the sad part...I swam two, yes, just two and I thought to myself 'this is SO HARD!!!'. I thought at that point, maybe I should just swim 12 laps for starters, but eventually I defeated my inner woes and kept going and swam 26 laps (give or take one-b/c I lost count after just 7 or so laps! ;-). It was much harder than I thought it'd be (I'm not a swimmer) and I had to vary it up with breast strokes and back strokes. Anyway, I have 5 weeks (counting this one) and I have the goal to swim (26 laps-or just over a half a mile) a total of 15 times before the tri (that's 3 times a week). I'm thinking about adding a tally on the side of my blog so I have to 'fess-up' about my training and hopefully, I won't pucker out.

I also am setting the goal to run 15 times (anywhere from 2-6 miles). Thankfully, during the tri it's only a 5k!!! And, also to ride my bike (or attend spin class) 15 times. One more goal: at least 3 times, I need to put them all together for a mock tri-trial run. We'll see how it goes! Wish me luck and please hold me accountable! I need ALL the help I can get!

4 comments:

Dirk and Trish said...

Let me know if you want me to start watching the kids 1-2x a week while you train. It will probably be another week before I can lift, but after that...just let me know. Good luck!

ablincoln said...

Yeah I got a bra too after my haircut there. I didn't have a fitting as I just did at VS, but I overheard the lady fitting someone in the next dressing room and I was reaping all of her advice. I finally found one that works. Iasked the lady at the checkout a couple questions and basically voided everything the VS gal said, so next time I'll probably just go to Dillards, they seem to know what they're talking about a lot more! Thanks for the advice :)

ablincoln said...

oops, I left the bra comment on the wrong one, sorry. Anyway I also wanted to tell you how impressed I am with your tri-training. You can do eet! I'm proud of you!

Tawsha said...

AWESOME! Devin and I both want to do a triathlon too, but I think ours is going to be next year since Herbert will be joining us in October (don't worry, we wouldn't really name a child Herbert, its just the most obnoxious name Devin could come up with) =) Keep up the good work and I'm excited to see how it goes!