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A blog about training for my first triathlon

Ouch, that stings

Yesterday was the first day of 1.5 hour group swim. And I was just getting used to the 1 hour version. I’m still, of course, in the newbie ghetto lane. Started out promising – nice warm-up laps & then drills (catch-ups and fingertip drags). And then a 300 meter block. Three hundred meters. I make it through with flying colors, at least for me. More was done on my back than on my front, but I made it. And then comes the “ouch, that stings” part. The TNT coach asks me and a fellow poor swimmer if we’re sure that we want to do a triathlon. Because there’s this really nice duathlon that we could do. Grr. I’d really rather just learn to swim, thank you very much. Even if I can’t figure out this crawl, I’ll do the damn thing on my back if I have to. Did I say, Grr?

Jenn is helping me find a swim instructor. I’ll keep going to the group swims for the camaraderie, minutes in the water and post-swim sushi, but I’ve given up on actually getting better technique there.

One really fun part of last night’s swim was our first relay race. My 25m length went really well (I can swim fast and short, not slow and long) and my lane won. Woohoo!

Last week was a moderately sucky week training-wise. Had a cold that knocked me out of training Tuesday through Friday. Bleh. But Saturday’s group run was cool. My fellow Olympic-length triathletes & I cheered the half-Iron folks up the Skyline hill with cowbells & noisemakers. They’ll do the same for us at Pac Crest in June since their tri is on Saturday, they’ll be free to run around cheering us on Sunday. The 4+mile run was good too.

Went on a 20-mile ride Sunday from home to Fern Hill Rd. That last stretch of Blooming Fern Hill Rd just about did me in. It may not look it, but it is nearly vertical. Really.

Straight up, honest.

1 Comment so far »

  1. by Bill, on March 24 2010 @ 3:00 am

     

    Makes me think of the baseball coach who told me never to swing, just to hope for a walk. Not actually helpful, it turns out.

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