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A blog about training for my first triathlon

Been a while

It’s been a rough week, training-wise, thanks to an annoying cold.

I biked last weekend – the Dirty Thirty with my TNT team. Dirty & Thirty both refer to US30. And dirty was an accurate description! It was a 15.5 mile loop starting in NW PDX. Went a few miles out US30 (dirty & lots of traffic), then across the St John’s bridge (dodging the broken down bus in the right lane and thinking that a functional granny gear would have been a good idea going up up up that hill). Caught a nice view of the Willamette River & downtown PDX from the top of the bridge!

Tallest bridge in PDX

Back to Portland through St John’s neighborhood. Nice area that I hadn’t been to before. My little group of ~6 kinda got lost, or were creative when following directions, as we went through the Rose Quarter & across the Steel Bridge.

Steel Bridge

And ending up back at Pyramid Brewing Co. No problem, just wet, dirty & tired.

The Monday night group swim went okay. I’m still pretty bad. On occasion, I can make it across the 25m pool in good shape and in good form. But usually I lose form & pause mid-way to regroup. Getting slowly better. I guess I’m a candidate for most improved since I’m starting at the bottom, assuming that I can get it all together.

Managed a 3 mile treadmill run on Thursday afternoon, but I was already suffering from this cold. And it has gotten worse. Skipped the group run yesterday, and nothing today either. But next week will be better!

1 Comment so far »

  1. by Dena, on February 21 2010 @ 5:34 pm

     

    Feel better soon. I remember running over those bridges last summer. Lots of fun.

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