Today Chantelle and I hit the pool - we swam for 45 minutes.
I haven't swam at Renfrew for years, but it was an entirely pleasant experience. I didn't even have someone in my lane for about 15 minutes, and when I did have people in my lane there were no run ins or anything. This was my first swim since the Peace River Tri and I did 1500 m, the last 500 m of which I did non-stop. I was still feeling strong in the end so I think I could've gone longer but we had to get going.
I'm going to print the swim workouts that my tri coach sent us and then waterproof them and put them in a binder, which I'll take to the pool. Then I'll have something a little more focused to do.
As far as the swimming portion goes, I'm confident that I could do an Olympic distance triathlon. But that's just the swimming portion.
Tomorrow we're back at the gym, I'll be on bike and treadmill again. I have lots of podcasts to catch up on though so that will be good times.
RK
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First day back at the gym
After a whole week (perhaps more) of procrastination, I finally got some exercise today.
Chantelle and I met at the gym at 7:00 to work out. I'm focusing on transitioning from biking to running MWF and then on TR we're swimming. Should be good.
Today I was on the bike for 30 minutes. In 20 of those minutes I apparently did 5.25 miles of distance, which would be 8.4 km. I want to be doing the 20 km in 45 minutes, so we'll see how things go. Obviously I've got some work to do before I'm that quick. I just hope that transitioning from the exercise bike to my new road bike (which I've yet to purchase) in the spring will work equally well.
After the bike, I got on the treadmill and only managed running for 7 minutes, partly because I started too fast. The goal for Wednesday: 30 minutes on the bike and 20 minutes running.
I'll get this transition working yet... I guess I have 9 months before tri season anyway. I'd sure like to do an Olympic distance in summer 2008. We'll see...
RK
Chantelle and I met at the gym at 7:00 to work out. I'm focusing on transitioning from biking to running MWF and then on TR we're swimming. Should be good.
Today I was on the bike for 30 minutes. In 20 of those minutes I apparently did 5.25 miles of distance, which would be 8.4 km. I want to be doing the 20 km in 45 minutes, so we'll see how things go. Obviously I've got some work to do before I'm that quick. I just hope that transitioning from the exercise bike to my new road bike (which I've yet to purchase) in the spring will work equally well.
After the bike, I got on the treadmill and only managed running for 7 minutes, partly because I started too fast. The goal for Wednesday: 30 minutes on the bike and 20 minutes running.
I'll get this transition working yet... I guess I have 9 months before tri season anyway. I'd sure like to do an Olympic distance in summer 2008. We'll see...
RK
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