Week 3

Not much happening, same as previous weeks. Biked for about 40 mins and 2 hours in the gym. Swam for about hour and a half. Found a way of combining a dog walk with the run and killed 2 birds with one stone.

The bike consisted of cycling to the swimming pool, doing a 600m swim. Then biking back. When I checked the computer I had hit 40mph at one stage, obviously that was one of the down hill sections.

Week 1 The end of

The end of week 1, more swimming and a run. My swimming sucks big time, so I am now getting some coaching as currently I struggle to do 100m doing front crawl. Though I managed to swim 750m (backstroke) in 29mins.

Luckly the run was n´t so bad, not sure how far I ran, the distance will be measured next time.

Now looking forward to a day off then week 2.

The Start

My gym instructor suggested for a challenge to enter in to a triathlon. Up for a new challenge I said yes. I now find myself with a group of friends in training for our first event. The event itself is a 750m swim, 20kM bike ride followed by 5km run.

Race day is June 2009 which leaves about 12 weeks of training, I am not to worried about the run or the bike ride,but the thought of swimming 750m in open waters is daunting. I am a very poor swimmer with a poor technique, this is where most of my training will be concentrared on.