This past Saturday was the first day of official triathlon training. Here we go. It’s going to be a long, hard, fun 5 months of training for the Mont Tremblant 70.3.
This is the point in race preparation that I start to get nervous. It might sound weird since I’m still far away from race day but I start worrying if my training will be sufficient or if I will get injured. If I spend all this time training and I end up not being properly prepared for the race there is no way to change that on the start line. If I go through my training and end up getting hurt before the race and can’t compete I would be heartbroken. These things start to cause anxiety right about now. Once I’d deep into training, I start to feel strong and don’t worry for much about being fit on race day. On race day I’m typically not nervous because I’ve gotten there injury free (hopefully) and I’ve done all the training I could so there’s nothing more to be done there.
There was a hiccup in my schedule week before last so I had to run on Monday which is typical day off. It ended up being an awesome run. I hit a PB on the 10k dirt road loop by my parents house in New Jersey. This might be my favorite course to run.
Tuesday I got in some great hill training on my bike. Before I started biking I always thought that to get in a good bike workout you had to spend hours out on the road. I’ve learned that 30-45 minutes of hills can be a brutal workout. I got this in at my parents house in New Jersey. Unfortunately there are little to no hills of the same size in Manhattan.
Friday was a simple swim session of 1,000 meters. It’s awesome to see my lap times dropping. I think there is hope for me yet in the pool.
Saturday was a swim/run brick. These are the sessions that make you be 100% committed to doing long course triathlons. In marathon training the longest you spend training in a single day is 3, or maybe 4 hours. Saturday was the first brick of training and we worked out for over 4 hours. This is going to get brutal. Swim skills started at 6am, swim workout was at 7 and then we ran from 8:30 to 10:30. Running wasn’t too intense but after 2 hours of all out swimming it was hard to find the energy to do a few simple hill repeats. Getting in swim/run or swim/bike bricks later in the season is going to take up the whole day. Gotta really love it to make these sacrifices.
Sunday was an hour on the bike in the gym due to the weather. Every moment was unenjoyable. I hate being inside.
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Training Recap - 12/30 to 1/5
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