Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Does This Training Schedule Make Me Look Fat?

I'm re-looking at the Hal Higdon 8-week spring tri training schedule and I'm a little concerned about it preparing me for a sprint tri. It seems to be heavy on the running side of things. It has me running four times a week while I'm only biking or swimming once or twice a week.

http://halhigdon.staging.racersites.com/training/51327/Triathlon-Training-Triathlon-2

Does anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking if anything I should be running less than I'm biking or swimming. Am I way off base here? Thoughts from the peanut gallery? Any other good plans you know of?

Saturday, June 2, 2012

LET'S DO THIS! LEEEEERRRRROOYYYYY... JEEEEENNNKINNNNNS

I did it. I signed up for a triathlon. So I'm committed to doing this or losing money out of it; so barring no injury I'll be (fingers crossed) completing my first triathlon at the end of July this year. My concern is that I'll end up being doing something like this:


I'm hoping that by biting the bullet and signing up (and paying) for the race I will not be tempted to slack off or train sporadically, and that I will complete my first triathlon twenty years after I first wanted to do one. =)

I signed up for a different tri than the one I originally planned:

http://www.dallasathletesracing.com/races/twu-sprint-tri/

This one has a pool swim instead of a lake swim that's also a shorter distance (300 meters vs. 500 yards), and a slightly shorter bike as well, 16.1 miles instead of 17.6 (for those who speak metric the bike ride is approximately 2.5 kilometers shorter in this race). The race is also two weeks later, which, given my schedule, makes me feel a little more comfortable preparing for it. =)

http://halhigdon.staging.racersites.com/training/51327/Triathlon-Training-Triathlon-2

I have eight weeks from now to train. My plan is to do a hybrid of Hal Higdon's Sprint Triathlon and "The Idiots Guide to Triathlon Training". Slight concern, I still won't be home for two of the six weeks of training, so I'm going to have to improvise those weeks; which occur during week 1 and 3 of my training, eek, but better than week 6 and 8 I guess.

LET'S DO THIS! LEEEEERRRRROOYYYYY... JEEEEENNNKINNNNNS!