Here is the ride from Sunday morning:
For some time now I've been training by swimming, running and cycling. I was doing weights too at one point but I was struggling to feel like I was structuring my training and was feeling a bit lost. Since I recently got a road bike, and indeed one of the influencing decisions to buy one was that I wanted to try a triathlon, particularly with open water swimming. I've not decided on an event yet, or distance but I found a middle distance training plan on tri radar here the time rich plan looked a bit hardcore so I've opted for the time poor plan which is closer to what I am doing already.
I did a race pace crack at a local 2 mile Strava segment as a bit of a benchmark, I'm down to 8:35 min/miles on the golf course loop which is part of a 3.5 mile run from work:
It will be interesting to see how the training pans out. I'm going to try and be disciplined so that I can make the most of the programme but with sportives and ldwa events tempting me plus some downhill riding I've got to try and keep focused as much as possible.
I had my first pool session tonight with drills. I haven't done any since I was a kid. I bought myself a float and pull buoy. It's interesting putting it all together when you take an element out and focus on it and how much that improves you stroke, although I feel its more an issue of fitness and intensity rather than technique for the time being, I can happily bang out a couple of miles but my technique does slide. One revelation was crawl with closed fists. It's a lot to remember though! Here's a post swim pick of my notes!
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