Yes, that's right, i found a triathlon in late march and signed up. I'm SO EXCITED!!!! I got my appointment letter for my hip MRI and its not till Jan 12th so i'm quite sure that i won't be having surgery before March 27th. I am so stoked that i get to race this season. Its not ideal. I wanted to have a little more time, especially to get out on my bike on the roads, but i will just have to make sure that i go every weekend that i can.
It is held in Pwllheli, Wales - as if that needed stating with the spelling of it - which is a two hour drive. Its a pool based tri, which i'm grateful for given the time of the year, and also as its my first triathlon. The website is a bit sparse of information but its a 400m swim, a 12mile cycle and a 3 mile run. I have no clue if its a closed road or what the run route is, but quite frankly, i don't care. I'm just thrilled i'm doing one. Its so soon!!!
So my training starts now!
Fourteen weeks and counting...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
After my successful run on thusday I decided to go out again on Friday morning too. My aim was to do four miles again but I also wanted to push myself a little harder. I donned Sally and hit the streets at 6:35am. I really tried not to look at my pace or time and just run. When I got to the end of the road I decided to run on the beach, I new it would be harder and I was interested to see what my heart rate would be like. I pushed it to the end of the sand and turned back. I ran on sand for about 3/4 mile between mile 2 and 3. At 3.5 I was really tired, hungry and thirsty. So I decided to walk the last half mile home. I don't like to give up on a mileage goal but it was so hot and I was so thirsty. I knew I had done well but I couldn't do the math, my brain was a noodle still.
So I was thrilled when I hooked Sally up to find not only I had a fantastic pace, faster than I thought I could maintain in the heat, but I had negative splits as well! I always have positive ones as I start off too fast but today was different. I want more of these days.
My awesome splits
10:06
9:56
9:49
4:48 (keeping that pace would have been 9:36)
7:56 walking last 1/2 mile.
Two thumbs up.
We are heading way up north to Chiang Rai tomorrow, we were expecting it to get cooler as we moved north but I looked and it's going to be even hotter, in the 100's. Not too happy about that. Still may try to do more Thai boxing though, taking more than 1/2 litre of water this time.
So I was thrilled when I hooked Sally up to find not only I had a fantastic pace, faster than I thought I could maintain in the heat, but I had negative splits as well! I always have positive ones as I start off too fast but today was different. I want more of these days.
My awesome splits
10:06
9:56
9:49
4:48 (keeping that pace would have been 9:36)
7:56 walking last 1/2 mile.
Two thumbs up.
We are heading way up north to Chiang Rai tomorrow, we were expecting it to get cooler as we moved north but I looked and it's going to be even hotter, in the 100's. Not too happy about that. Still may try to do more Thai boxing though, taking more than 1/2 litre of water this time.
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