The next triathlon I’ll be participating in is exactly a week away. Hard to believe how fast time flies when you’re having fun training for a race. It seems like just yesterday I wrote about how it was a month away.
Without having official data to prove it, I strongly believe I’ve improved my swimming (which is hugely important, the first leg of the three-discipline race). Will I be a dolphin speeding through the water? No. But I *think* I’ll look less like a cat in a bathtub. That was me in my first tri race. Gosh, that first triathlon seems SO long ago (last April). I finished 93rd out of 128 and vowed to never do another race again. So dramatic.
But since then I’ve improved in speed and efficiency. It also helps that I am using a newer bicycle and clothing better-suited for triathlons. So that April race when I finished 93rd, it was a 600 yard swim, 19 mile bike, and a 5K run.
Guess what next week’s distances are? Yep, pretty much the same! The only difference is 3 miles less on the bicycle course. I’m excited, a little nervous (I’ll be very nervous as it gets closer), but really just full of anticipation. This morning I joined a group bicycle ride and we did 33 miles. At the very same time, doing these longer (for me) rides is encouraging and humbling because 1. I’m happy to be part of group rides and 2. These cyclists are fast. Huge quads, huge calves, sometimes I take a look at my own chicken legs and think I must be an imposter!
Hoping next week I’ll feel less like a chicken and more like a roadrunner. Meep Meep.
In my last triathlon post I included a photo of my training calendar. Here’s the updated calendar with just 7 days left till race day.
-Out of the Wilderness
Out of the Wilderness 