Start Of The Outseason Training Tests Complete

My official start date to outseason training was this monday. And just in time too, I am starting to feel really out of shape.

For the run test, it was a essentially a 5k time trial.

  • Distance: 3.03 miles
  • Time: 00:25:02
  • Pace: 8:16
  • LTHR: 175 (my heart felt like it was going to explode for the final mile)
  • Vdot: 37

The bike was a 40 minute time trial. I did it last week outdoors and redid the same test on the indoor trainer. I like the outdoor test better because I need to work on my mental focus while on the indoor trainer. That will come in time. My outdoor test results for the bike:

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Where does the time go…

Here I write on Halloween morning, October 31. Surrounded by snow I can hardly believe winter is upon us, several times this week I have had to literally stop and think and wonder what month we were in.

I have been running intermittently after my stress fracture flared back up stopping me from runningbthe Denver half. I have Goofy’s challenege coming up in January and I found it more important to heal for a few weeks in order to properly train for that. As it is I will finish the races that weekend but will do so at a leisurely pace.

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Change….

September 14…. I’m sitting outside in what must be close to 85 degree weather a day after running 8 miles in three top layers still shivering as I went. This is why I love fall and Colorado, you just never know what you will get.

Change, summer to fall. Focus on triathalon to focus on marathon. Heck, I even interviewed for a “real job” last week. Our daughter must have grown a full size over the course of the last month. So many changes come this time of year.

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The Importance of a Partner

Steve has now been gone 10 days. Last week I was pretty good about getting out and getting my runs in, keeping on track with my training, etc. This week, not so much. I did a lot of teaching over the weekend coupled with some teacher training, I had family visiting for a night and no wonderful partner to keep me on track. I went to the grocery store and loaded up on snacks for my visitors that went untouched so now I have been grazing on them throughout the week. I had a babysitter for M on Monday night at which time I ordered pizza for them to have for dinner, with a lot left over I have been grazing on this as well. I haven’t cooked a decent meal since last week- though we have been eating a lot of fruits. Why is it that I fall so far off track so quickly when my love is gone?

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Gotta Run

Ahhh, Lots of yoga this weekend teaching 5 classes as well as taking 9 hours of teacher training on prenatal yoga plus squeezing in a restorative practice myself last night. What I did not do is run or bike as time did not allow it. I did have a little time out of the studio but didn’t feel like forcing our daughter in to the Bob and running for an hour when I hadn’t seen much of her.

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In your wetsuit, to pee or not to pee????

Today is one of those days that the training just isn’t going to get squeezed in. I had a meeting all morning, family coming in to town this afternoon and a pretty messy house to address. Oh, I also need to do my work which is what I should be doing now but when reading an article on reading glasses online just now I saw the following headline:

“Experts say urinating in the shower is not so bad from a health and safety standpoint.”

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Rattlesnake Run Leg

The run was great, the sun was shining, people all around me on the course. I didn’t love that it was all on concrete but I was able to find some packed gravel alongside the path in spots to run on. I could probably spend more detail but a run is a run is a run sometimes, and this was nice but nothing terribly remarkable. Plus….. I just found a better topic to write about for today so look at the other posts:)

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Rattlesnake Triathlon Bike Leg

OK, post swim as I said in my previous post it is a fairly steep little up hill jaunt back to transition. But jaunt I did, I actually ran much to my surprise and I wasn’t dizzy as I have been in the past upon exiting a swim from the open water. My wetsuit was removed by volunteers which was pretty slick and I moved on in to my bike.

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Rattlesnake Triathlon Swim

So I’ll start my race recap with the swim. Sunday morning was very cold, upper 40′s when we arrived at the reservoir a little before 6am. This was somewhat troubling to me as I had driven out to the res the Thursday before for a final practice swim and the water was freezing even though it was warm outside.

I must say, surprisingly, the water was quite comfortable. It was almost a relief to step in to as the water temp was in the mid-upper 60′s and warm in comparison to the outside air temp. I was wearing a full body, long sleeve wetsuit so I can’t say how it might have felt if I didn’t have the extra layer on but the temp was really nice.

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I finished the Rattlesnake Sprint Triathlon

Alas, I am an official triathlete. After training on and off for the sport for three years and staging and participating in numerous variations of the sport for Steve’s training I have officially completed an organized triathlon race. I LOVED IT!

After having run too many running races to count, the idea of getting up to go and run in a pack for various distances is still attractive at times but not as attractive as the lure of a long run in a gorgeous location outdoors with just my husband or a good friend. That being said, the lure to participate in another organized triathlon is HUGE!

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