Enough. I’m tired of swimming individual lengths, and want to string them together into laps. On the other hand, at least I’m covering the minimum distance I’ll need to swim in the actual triathlon. Just, you know, not all at once. Worst case scenario, I swim out past the breakers and bob around in my wetsuit for a while before finishing the swim. But, really, that seems kind of embarrassing. I think I’d rather swim nonstop.
Tag: training
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Australian Crawl
Okay, seriously. What is it with me and freestyle? Last night I couldn’t finish my first lap of that stroke. I wound up having to break laps into lengths, with breaks on each end of the pool. It helped, because I covered more distance (500 m total) than I would have otherwise. But I need to be stringing laps together, not breaking them down. This is very frustrating.
And I didn’t get to the gym today, because I had a vendor meeting, and then they said, “Hey, let’s go to lunch now!”
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Your Sister’s Drown’d, Laertes
Okay, I’m no Ophelia. And I definitely didn’t drown. But the swimming portion of my training isn’t going well, and that’s frustrating. We went to the pool on Sunday, and I felt both slow and weak. I had trouble finishing my second freestyle lap, for crying out loud. On the other hand, after that I did do a lap of kickboard and one more freestyle lap.
I know what the answer is. I need to go more often. But I want to be better now!
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Biking in Place
5.91 miles in 30 minutes. I am such an athlete! Well, except for the part where that’s not very far at all. And the part where it was a stationary bike.
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Now That’s More Like It
Yesterday I went for a walk of 1.45 miles, and today we went swimming at UCLA’s Park Pool–I managed 500 meters, which is much more typical for me. Now I need to string more than 100 meters together at a time.
On the downside, I wonder if I might have a stress fracture. Probably not. Right?
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Swimming to Cambodia
…is something I’d better not try any time soon, because I barely made it through 200 meters of breaststroke. And by “200 meters,” I mean “four stretches of 50 meters with lots of gasping at each end of the pool.”
But, hey, it’s a start.
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Swimming in Circles
So a month and a half later, or something like that, we still haven’t gotten back to the pool. Tonight, that changes. Here’s hoping I remember how to swim.
Good news, however–a couple of weeks ago we were in the Bay Area and drove over to Pacific Grove to check out the course. The bay is less protected than I was expecting, and incredibly full of kelp. In fact, it’s so kelpy that I think I’m going to have to rely on breaststroke as much as freestyle. Better train for both.
Which doesn’t sounds like good news, but that’s what comes next. We drove the bike course, and it’s ideal. Not only is it along the coast, which is rugged and beautiful, but it’s almost entirely flat! So my fears of biking downhill will not need to be confronted–at least, not on a deadline. Seriously, it’s like my dream bike ride.
And then I’ll just need to walk 2 miles.
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Slow but Steady
I haven’t gotten back to the pool, which is sad. However, I have been hitting the gym. Lots of treadmill work–and I started using the stationary bike, as well as doing strength work with machines and free weights a couple of times a week. I’m feeling good (well, at the moment, I’m feeling a little sore), and maybe this will finally result in that weight loss I’ve been talking about for too long.
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Let the Training Begin!
We went swimming yesterday. Sure, the weather seems to have been a little on the cool side–it may have gotten to the upper 60s–but with a heated pool, it’s not so bad.
I went for 400 meters, which will be more impressive when I can do it all at once, instead of in four 100-meter laps, with pauses in between. My goal is to be able to do 800 meters nonstop, because that’s twice the distance of the swim portion of the race. If I can do that, and get in a few ocean swimming sessions, I should be fine.
Then all I’ll have to do is learn to bike downhill.
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Triathlon
I am going to take my out-of-shape self, and start training for The Triathlon at Pacific Grove. The sprint distance is the sprintiest I’ve seen, with a 1/4-mile swim, 12.4-mile bike, and 2-mile run. Which I will walk.
Watch this space for training updates, and lots of whining.