I'm Tri'ing

Small Texan Triathlon 2013 - 7/29/2013 - 8:05 a.m. start time Boerne City Lake, Boerne, TX Distance - Swim -.93, Bike -28 miles, Run-6.2 miles Swim - 43:05 Bike - 1:54:30 Run - 1:31:01 Overall - 4:13:20 The best way to describe this event - hot, bumpy and hilly! Pre-Race  The Boerne City Lake park and transition opened at 630 a.m. so we left around 545 and arrived around 645.  Parking was about .25 miles from transition site and we took all my gear up in the 1st trip, got body marking done, and set up my area (open racks) and then headed back to the truck to get my drinks.  All of that was finished up around 715, so we have about 30 min to kill before the pre race meeting.  Rob found a good spot to sit for the swim and we just kind of relaxed. Swim I have NEVER swam freestyle in a race and have worked very hard since last October to get my freestyle down so I was actually excited about the swim.  When I saw the buoys I realized 1500 meters / .93 m...

7/1/2013 - 7/7/2013 Swimming - 2 Biking - 1 Running - 2  Strength Training - 1 Weekly weight loss - 0 Total weight loss - 45.5 7/8/2013 - 7/14/2013 Swimming - 2 Biking - 2 Running - 2  Strength Training - 2 Weekly weight loss - 0 Total weight loss - 45.5 7/15/2013 - 7/21/2013 Swimming - 1 Biking - 2 Running - 0  Strength Training - 0 Weekly weight loss - 0 Total weight loss - 45.5 Similar to my last post my workouts have stunk and similar to when I was racing before I would get in this rut and my workouts would be less than lackluster.  But not similar to before I am confident in what I plan to accomplish next Sunday.  With Rob out of town I was really hoping that last week I would hit the training hard but that clearly did not happen.  But I also know I have trained hard for this day and while I'm not confident in how fast I will be I'm confident that I will complete this next step in my triathlon career. ...