I'm Tri'ing

Next week at this time I will have completed my first race of the season.  As always I'm nervous, I look at finish times from last year and think they are much faster than I am, I drove the bike course and realize the road is horrible and there are lots of hills and I question every second of my training.  Despite feeling like I have made a lot of progress in the past few weeks and feel like I'm strong I feel like I'm totally not ready for this race.  I get so nervous leading up to a race, I question everything I have done and doing to prep. It doesn't help that recently I have been thinking a lot about doing an Ironman next year and this makes me question everything I do.  I want to do an Ironman, but I question if I have the ability to do it.  Everyone seems to have more confidence in myself than I do.  There are days I think "of course I do this" and then there are other days I say "what the hell am I thinking." So yet another day of being wis...

Finally race season is here.  My first race is in 2 weeks, July 5th.  I'm super excited to finally race, although I have yet to decide which bike I will be riding.  The weather has NOT been cooperating so I haven't been out on my tri bike since last week.  The original plan was to get outside twice a week.  Keep the fingers crossed that tomorrow I'll be good to go. We are going to go up this weekend and drive the bike course to see what it's like that will also help me decide what bike I'm going to use. I'm ready to go, I was hoping to be down a few more lbs, but it's the first race of the season and this is not one of my A races, just a primer, something to get me going. I've also been thinking a lot about next year and whether I'm going to go for an IM.  The hubby says goes for it, some friends and family say go for it.  I just don't know yet! Training is going well, I think my swimming is improving, wish I could figure out how to be a ...

I decided to look back at last year around this time to see how I was doing, both weight and training.  Well that was a bad idea.  I'm up almost 10 lbs at this time last year.....eek and my training is a bit behind from last year, not swimming as much yardage or biking as many miles but running more just a bit slower.  So I clearly have some work to do.  It's good to reflect on where you were and where you are.   I'm not blogging or sharing as much information about my training that I did last year largely because I don't feel like documenting all the details again on my blog as I'm already doing on my spreadsheet and trainingpeaks.com so why add more work to the plan.  I'm proud of the work I put in this week and I'm looking forward to the coming week.  I want to lose that additional 10 lbs before my race in 4 weeks!

Hard to believe my first race is less than 5 weeks and sadly this week was the first time I took the new ride outside and oh my so much training is needed.  But the good news is that it's an Olympic distance and I know that I can do the distances and if needed I can do my road bike and even better news is that Kerrville is still about 4 months away.  I've had some good weeks of training but now I need to step it up a notch to insure that I hit all my sessions, put some solid time in the pool and get outside on the bike!! BTW, the new girl still does not have a name......she has the potential to be scary, although the aero didn't bother me much, she is loose and the gearing is SO very different than my roadie.  So getting time outside with her is very important to the HIM races this year.