Sunday, May 21, 2006
Serious about training... staring today!
Yuki left for Tokyo today. We had a great two weeks together, and actually he already knows he's coming back June 12th so I don't have to wait too long to see him again.
That gives me 21 days of training and 22 days until I can see Yuki. Yes, I'm already counting down...
Since there are just three weeks until the triathlon (SUNDAY, JUNE 11th!) I've decided to be more serious about training. I've been biking and running (occasionally) but when Yuki was here I had plenty of excuses to put off training. I didn't go swimming once the entire time, but I did bike the 30 km to Aokata and go running hard a few times.
Now I'm trying to think of what and how much I should do to prepare.
This afternoon I did almost the entire bike course. The majority of the bike course is four laps around Komeyama Mountain, which I did in it's entirety for the first time today. As of last week I'd only been around it twice! So I'm proud of myself, but for the race I also have to get from the beach (where the swim is) to the mountain which includes another, different long and tough hill.
Since I really know very little about how to properly train, I’m going to try this. Tell me if it sounds sound.
For the next week I’m going to train for one part of the race every day. So today I did the whole biking section. Tomorrow I’m going to run the whole distance for the run. Tuesday I’ll swim the 2 km without resting. If I can do each of them successfully then I’ll do it again the latter half the week, taking the weekend or a rainy day to rest.
The second week I should try to do two sections of the race in a day. So biking and running. Or swimming and running. Probably I couldn’t do the whole biking and running distance in one day because of the time it takes, but do as much as I can in one evening.
The last week I should take it a little easier, and go back to just one of each a day. The swim will be the easiest of the three, but since I haven’t swam in a long time I’m probably going to be really slow. I need to work on speed that last week. I’ll feel good if I can get out of the ocean and started on the bike when most people are still in the water.
That’s my tentative plan for training the next three weeks. I feel better having a plan and knowing exactly how much time I have left. At this point I’m not feeling behind or out-of-shape, just a little chubbier from all the good foods I ate with Yuki recently!! That boy loves his ice cream and donuts!!!
That gives me 21 days of training and 22 days until I can see Yuki. Yes, I'm already counting down...
Since there are just three weeks until the triathlon (SUNDAY, JUNE 11th!) I've decided to be more serious about training. I've been biking and running (occasionally) but when Yuki was here I had plenty of excuses to put off training. I didn't go swimming once the entire time, but I did bike the 30 km to Aokata and go running hard a few times.
Now I'm trying to think of what and how much I should do to prepare.
This afternoon I did almost the entire bike course. The majority of the bike course is four laps around Komeyama Mountain, which I did in it's entirety for the first time today. As of last week I'd only been around it twice! So I'm proud of myself, but for the race I also have to get from the beach (where the swim is) to the mountain which includes another, different long and tough hill.
Since I really know very little about how to properly train, I’m going to try this. Tell me if it sounds sound.
For the next week I’m going to train for one part of the race every day. So today I did the whole biking section. Tomorrow I’m going to run the whole distance for the run. Tuesday I’ll swim the 2 km without resting. If I can do each of them successfully then I’ll do it again the latter half the week, taking the weekend or a rainy day to rest.
The second week I should try to do two sections of the race in a day. So biking and running. Or swimming and running. Probably I couldn’t do the whole biking and running distance in one day because of the time it takes, but do as much as I can in one evening.
The last week I should take it a little easier, and go back to just one of each a day. The swim will be the easiest of the three, but since I haven’t swam in a long time I’m probably going to be really slow. I need to work on speed that last week. I’ll feel good if I can get out of the ocean and started on the bike when most people are still in the water.
That’s my tentative plan for training the next three weeks. I feel better having a plan and knowing exactly how much time I have left. At this point I’m not feeling behind or out-of-shape, just a little chubbier from all the good foods I ate with Yuki recently!! That boy loves his ice cream and donuts!!!
