Anyway, I thinking my Saturday training will be brick workouts (bike then run) and then Sundays will be an open water swim followed by my weekly long run. This sounds insane, even to me, but I love the challenge of this! Plus it'll make my weekdays a tad bit easier.
Last Saturday's brick workout was awesome. I got in 17 miles on the bike in just over an hour. I rode from my house to Ranger Camp Road (which is a road a lot of cyclists in this area use--very long, light traffic, just a great road to ride on) and back. On the way back, my bicycle chain slipped so I had to fight with that for a few minutes...it wouldn't have been a big deal except I did it on the side of the main highway that is between my house and Ranger Camp, so I was fighting with it while keeping an eye on traffic too. But other than that, the ride was great. The run was a bit tough at first (I think these are called "brick" workouts because your legs feel like bricks by the time it is all over) but it was actually a pretty decent four miles.
Last Sunday's open water swim was both good and bad. I was more comfortable-ish and felt okay about it. But it was pretty rough and stormy out, so it certainly wasn't an easy swim. Regardless, I feel as though I'm improving and that makes me pretty happy. Swimming has been hard for me to get into (at the age of 36 no less) but I'm glad I did.
Just a reminder for my fundraiser!! I know I've mostly been talking about my triathlon training, but I'm still working towards my 200 mile bike ride in October!! I'm almost halfway to the $1K I need to raise for the Wounded EOD Warriors!! Please visit my website at:
https://fundraising.active.com/fundraiser/CatherynAdams-Brooking
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