This is a short entry I wrote after my first week of training for the tri back in February. A week later I fell in hockey and tore my MCL and my training took a serious halt even though it had hardly begun! (See my February entry entitled "MCL - My Crappy Ligament")
WEEK ONE
I'm in my first week of training and I'm exhausted! Swimming is a thousand times harder than running and I can barely do two laps! I can't remember ever being this winded, my heart pounding this fast - and I'm not even sweating. Yeah, swimming is tough. There's so much to remember - the stroke, the kick, the breathing, all while trying to stay afloat. It's like running a marathon and you're only allowed to breathe every four steps and when you do get to breathe, you get half a second to get as much air as possible into your lungs before they are filled with water and you drown. Good times.
I do like the floaties though, especially the fun curvy one that fits between my thighs so I can work on proper arm form. I fly with that thing between my legs! (I realize that last sentence opens me up for a few jokes) But it's true. If I could swim the entire race with the floatie and just my arms, I'd be golden.
Running this week got progressively harder. I think it's because the first time I ran my body had forgotten how much it hates to run but by the second run, its memory was fully restored. Still, I gasped my way through 25 minutes thanks to my awesome, kick ass playlist.
Biking was a piece o' cake. :-)
Week one down, 13 to go!
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