Hello all.
I have had a hard time staying awake long enough to write any posts. Training is draining me! I am forcing myself to write this post because I know you want it, but I am just ready to hit the hay…
Training is going really well. I am swimming, biking and running 6 days a week. I am sleeping like a lump. I am eating like a clean eating horse. I feel great (right up until about 7:30 at night when I am ready to crash…)
I have 12 weeks until the Try Charleston 70.3. That doesn’t seem like a lot of time.
The majority of my focus over the past three weeks has been on the swim. Swimming is such an interesting discipline. Running and biking are pretty mindless. You put one foot in front of the other or you push down on the pedals to go. Of course there are subtle intricacies that make one person better than another, but swimming is a horse of a different color.
Swimming takes not only finese and a level of skill, it takes the coordination of EVERY part of your existance. Be streamlined in the water, don’t lose power on your stroke, keep your head down, don’t forget to sight, remember to breathe, and don’t panic. I can do one of those things at a time, but to do them all will take some effort.
Knowing that the swim is my weakest of the three sports, I started swim lessons. I grabbed my floaties and headed to the pool. My coach is really awesome (I haven’t asked her permission to use her name or likeness yet, so I will refrain and just refer to her as My Bowman for now…) When I first got in the pool I resembled a floundering halibut. But after just a couple of weeks of working with a coach, I am swimming at least as well as a slightly fluid dynamic rhinoceros. My Bowman even told me this morning that she was impressed with my intervals.
My triathlon coach, Ian, wants me to do another sprint triathlon as a warm-up for the 70.3 and therefore I have just registered for the Paris Island Sprint Triathlon on March 16th. I feel so good about it. I think that there will be a good chance that with the improvement to my swim and the fact that I am “actually” training, I should improve on my last time by quite a margin. I am pretty excited about it.
So that is what I have the energy to put to type this evening. I would love some feedback from you guys though.
What part of this process are you most interested in? What would you like to see me posting about concerning getting ready for this race?
If you would please leave comments below I will totally take them into consideration in my future posts. If you guys don’t leave any comments then I will just assume that you aren’t interested and I will go to sleep. Just kidding, or am I?
Peace. Love. Pull Bouys.
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I know what you mean about trying to put all the “corrections” together…it’s tough to do!
I’m curious – are the races you’re doing open water swims?
Krysta the Paris Island Sprint is pool, the Try Chas is open water.
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I think you should post about anything your nervous about, or anything that you find yourself having to ask your coaches/googling. I’m thinking about doing a tri in 2014 (I like to really think about things before I commit)and am really looking forward to your posts!
Thanks Katie!
I’m curious how many days you ‘brick’ train and if you ever do all three sports in one day. Also, how do you keep your eye on the prize when you are having a tough day and you don’t really want to train or just feel too busy.
Hey Lisa. I am keeping my training schedule here if you want to keep up with it (http://www.businessoflosingweight.com/triathlon-training-schedule). I am not doing a lot of brick training right now and have never done all three in one day. But I am guessing that the closer we get to the race, the more intense and the more brick training there will be. As for keeping my “eye on the prize” that one is tough and I think I will have a post in the next week or so about it…
You never did tell me how your triathlon went…
I was a little unlucky in terms of my triathalon. It started storming…torrential downpours… halfway through the biking. So when I went to do the second transition they had already cancelled everything. Thank God I ranked myself a 9 in swimming or else I wouldn’t have gotten to swim or bike at all. I’m doing another one in May so hopefully I’ll get to finish that one.
I now remember Deetz telling me that. That stinks but at least you have May! Go for it!