To prep for a race earlier this month, I wrote out a calendar with pen and paper. I could’ve done it on my phone, I guess, but I really like having each day’s workout displayed in front of me where I can add stuff, cross things out, move things, and basically act like it’s 1995.
Everybody’s runnin’, but half of them ain’t lookin’
It’s going on in the kitchen, but I don’t know what’s cookin’…
RIP Coolio. Man that was a good decade for music.
So that calendar I mentioned, I posted it a few days ago (see it here). I thought today would be a good day to post the next calendar I made for the duathlon a week from today. Yikes, only 7 days away! Oh boy. My goal is 1:09:00 and be one of the top 15 guys and while I won’t be winning any prizes, I think I can reach my goals. Just got to keep training and pushing myself. Here’s the calendar for this month.
For sure, it won’t look the same by race day except for resting Friday and Saturday. As the old hymn goes, “Soon and very soon…” but we’re not “going to see the King,” soon I’ll have to add in swimming to the training calendars. Grrrrrrrrrr. My weakest skill but in a way it will be fun and gratifying to watch where I start and where I finish. Ideally, the latter will be far beyond the former. Otherwise other triathletes will just be swimming in a river of my tears.
“Why is this water so salty!?” – the triathletes
OK, OK, I’ll calm down. Next week’s run/bike/run race should be a fun one with friends I’ve made here in Tallahassee. My last long bike ride (and actually the furthest I’ve ridden in one ride) was yesterday, approximately 34 miles. Here’s the first half of the ride.
Surprisingly, I felt good for the entire ride and I liked doing it because the trail is flat. I’m getting used to hills so this was a good break from that. I also took the opportunity to go hard and fast a few times. It was cool! I went with my brother-in-law (who is a fellow triathlete) and a few friends who also have Trek bikes.
Hoping for a restful week as I prepare for what will be my second duathlon ever!
-Out of the Wilderness
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