Tri Training Tuesday

I have been less than thrilled with how my marathon training has gone due to schedules, my knees, and life in general.  That being said I also have my first Tri coming up this Saturday.  Now that the girls are back in school I am totally recommitted to doing whatever I can in the training time I have left to be successful.  Any training is better than no training, right?  This knee thing has put a cloud over my dreams for Portland but I am determined to love every minute of it regardless.  I'm going to see what I can do.

Before I left this morning.

I ran on my treadmill last night.  That went well except for some right knee pain.  I still have it today but I'm dealing with it.  This morning I was up at 4:40AM to throw on my swimsuit and hit the door to pick up Tressa at 5:15AM.  We made it to the pool and we were in the water a little after 5:30AM.  I'd never gone to a lap swim before so it was all a bit overwhelming.  The big pool didn't seem so big with other swimmers filling up the lanes.  I opted to stay on the outside lane and squeeze between a very friendly guy and a group of older ladies who were there to warm up for the water class that was happening at 6.   Tressa braved one of the lanes with just one swimmer.  I somehow managed to not run into anyone.  Our swim part of the TRI will be 400 meters so I knew I'd have to survive 16 laps.  After Tressa and I did that we finished with another out and back to finish with 450 meters.

I'm happy overall with my training swim.  At least I have an idea in my head how far we'll have to go on Saturday.  Neither of us have wet suits so I'm thinking that will be extra motivation to swim faster.  The weather outlook for us is not good.  It will be an adventure and I'm fine with that.  Bring it on!!!

What I Learned~


1.  Swim caps are their own workout to put on.  I need to remember to not wear earrings.  Having them sucked into the side of my head is not helpful.

2.  Ideally, I need a lot more time in the water.  Learning how to breath, swim fast, and do it right is pretty important.  Bonus for me....I love the water so I'm hoping that even if I'm super slow I won't get freaked.

3.  Swim goggles will make you look silly for several hours after a swim.  I'm sure the lack of sleep I got last night didn't help.  Make-up isn't much of a help either.  I looked a little odd this morning when I went to take pictures of the girls at school on their first day back.  On the plus side, my goggles worked great and never leaked once.

Tonight is soccer practice for both girls.  Once Jason can get there I'll be headed to Tressa's for our bike portion of the training day.  I can't wait.

Tressa & I leaving the pool.

I couldn't help but notice how many of our awesome blog friends were in Woodinville yesterday.  Tressa & I would love any support and any extra cheerleaders we could get.  We have to do our transition set-up and packet pick-ups Saturday morning.   Here is the website for our TRI HERE.  It is at Cottage Lake in Woodinville.  Tressa & I, along with the rest of our huge following our husbands have roughly a two hour trip which translates into getting up very early to make sure we get checked in, set-up, and make our pre-event meeting which is at 7:45AM. 

 We would LOVE to see you there!!!!