I'm Tri'ing

How quickly two weeks can pass.  My cold / allergies has been lingering and I have been away from the gym / training for far too long.  But I went to the Dr today and got several different drugs that will hopefully get me back on track.  He thinks I had a cold that has started to turn into bronchitis.  Hopefully I will be feeling better in a few days. Unfortunately this has caused me to change my plans for my last race of the year.  The race is 3 weeks away and with no working out for the past week or so and probably for the next day or 2 I know that my body is not going to be ready for this.  I'm disappointed but ok with my decision not to participate.  As I last wrote I completed my top goal for the year, so I will rethink and re plan and get back on track soon. No worries!

This week did not go as planned, it started out great with spin class on Monday and then when down here from there.  I thought I had a caught the summer cold that everyone has had and started my routine of drugs that typically have me back on track in 3-4 days.  To my surprise this morning I was still feeling bad and this has me wondering if it's a summer cold or allergies.....so I changed up my drug routine to try some allergy medicine to see if that works and I will plan to do today's missed workout of run / swim tomorrow. This week I decided that I will not be participating in the Rock n Roll 1/2 Marathon in November.  I have my last triathlon coming up in 5 weeks and I have already started my 1/2 marathon training plan.  I have been experiencing lots of back pain and have decided to rethink my plan.  The 1/2 marathon was just something added that I wanted to accomplish but was not an ultimate goal this year, that was finishing my first Olympic distance tri...

I just realized I haven't posted an update since my race summary.  Sadly I have been a bit unmotivated and have taken a few too many days off.  But since my next race is 7 weeks from today I guess it's time to get my butt back in gear. So starting next week I'll get back on track with posting my training sessions and weight loss.  The good news is my weight is holding steady at my original goal weight.  I do still want to drop another 10 lbs and will get refocused on that.  If I stay focused I think I can be at the 2nd goal weight by the next race and carrying 10 less pounds will make a huge difference. I did have a decent run and a short swim to start off this morning.  Bad news is that my Garmin 405 has finally bit the dust.  I have been having lots of problems with it whenever I actually attempt to use it and go on long runs.  The hubby ok'd this purchase as my birthday gift: http://sites.garmin.com/forerunner910xt/ I"m so excited abo...

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. ...

6/17/2013 - 6/23/2013 Swimming - 1 Biking - 1 Running -1 Strength Training - 0 Weekly Weight loss -0 Total Weight loss - 45.5 6/24/2013 - 6/30/2013 Swimming - 0 Biking - 1 Running -1 Strength Training - 0 Weekly Weight loss - 0 Total Weight loss - 45.5 You wouldn't know it by my training the past 2 weeks but I do feel ready for my first International distance triathlon.  I think of this has my nemesis, although a different race, this is the distance I was training for a couple of years and experienced back problems that prevented me from competing.  This year I feel stronger, mentally and physically.  Don't get me wrong I'm still nervous about a lot of things but more confident with my overall abilities. First my swimming has improved and I'm comfortable calling myself a swimmer.  My longest distance yet has been 2200 yds which is beyond what is needed for my race (1636 yds).  This will be my first race that I will swim freestyle the entire d...

6/3/2013 - 6/9/2013 Swimming - 1 Biking - 1 Running -1 Strength training -0 Weight loss - 0 Total weight loss - 45.5 6/10/2013 - 6/16/2013 Swimming - 3 Biking - 2 Running - 1 Strength training -0 Weight loss - 0 Total weight loss - 45.5 WHAT - 6 weeks till the International tri - sigh.  I'm a bit surprised at myself the past couple of weeks, thought that I had done better than what is listed above.  So what has happened?  I will not dwell I will focus on the future.  Yep 6 weeks - I'm excited, funny how my weakness is no longer my weakness and my strength has become my weakness. Swimming is coming along great. This past week I had some great swim sessions and I swam 2000 yds on Saturday which is over the distance I need to do for the tri.  Rob watched me on Saturday and was amazed at my progress.  He says I have good form but I need to figure out the bi-lateral breathing.  He thinks that will definitely be needed when swimming in a ...