Wow. Time sure flies. It is now March 4th and it has been a month since my last post. I continue to swim 3 days a week and run and bike on other days. I believe I have made some good progress. Over the last two weeks I have increased my swim sessions from 11 laps to 33. That's 1500 meters or 1.5 kilometers. I can definitely go further and longer without stopping. I felt really good in the pool and made significant headway on working on swimming and breathing. Getting a rhythm down for breathing isn't as easy as it looks. Definitely have to be able to breath to do this. The biking is the easiest of the three for me and I am averaging about 15mph. No speed demon, but it will be fine for this event. In the beginning I thought the swim would be the worst event for me. However, the running is the hardest. My runs still average about 12-13 minutes a mile. My time is significantly influenced by my weight, which continues to hover around the 267 area, but I have noticed my pants are definitely looser now. I can run more laps on the track now without dropping to a walk.
I have started 'bricking' my workouts now too. This means that I put at least two of the events together back to back once a week. Swim/Bike or Bike/Run usually. The swim and the bike takes me about 65 minutes. The bike and the run take me about 90 minutes. I am targeting bricking all three next week. This should give me a feel for what I can expect when I do the actual Sprint Triathlon. I am thinking that all three will be about 105 to 110 minutes.
time to event 36: 18: 58: 16
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Pete
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