Posts Tagged ‘denver’
I just finished a 600m open water practice swim at the Aurora Res. Aurora is great because they actually keep open water swim buoys set up just outside the swim area for racers to come train all summer.
This morning my friend Ali and I headed for the water only to be joined by close to 8 other women. We asked what they were training for and the answer was their own private tri.
I had total appreciation for this for a number of reasons. Often times the entry fee to races precludes people from participating. Often times their schedules or other committments (I.e. Raising children or cleaning houses) might. This group of women said screw all that. They have weekly group trainings with one another at times that work for them. And then a few times a year they stage their races.
It isn’t for sponsorship, or times, or goodie bags. It isn’t even necessarily for the sake of competition. To me it seems it is more for the building of community through common experience. And in this case, it is for the love of the sport, triathlon.
Go Girls!!!!!
This morning’s workout was bright and early at Qi on Walnut. It’s always amazing to head over to the gym at an early hour and see it busy.
Anyway, one of our dogs was up every hour last night with stomach issues but despite my strong desire to turn off my alarm at 5:50 this morning and skip the training session I didn’t. I got up and made it to the gym. Once I was there I was happy to have made the decision.
We ran one mile around the club, came back and did a hard spin session for about 30 minutes then ran another mile. Good exercise to prep for transitions if you don’t have time to get out on your real bike.
The best part of the morning was the curried turkey burger patty I smothered in cranbery mango salsa upon my return home. It was before Steve and our daughter woke up, well kind of. I guess I actually ate the second half in one huge bite that I chewed as I ran upstairs to M who was hollering to get out of her crib, but at least I got to eat without somebody sitting on my lap:)
This is my taper week before doing a sprint triathlon(my first) on Sunday. I will be doing the Rattlesnake tri in Aurora with a group that I’ve been triathlon training with from Qi fitness in downtown Denver. So after my swim this morning Steve and I headed out for a short run.
Given the lack of trees in our neighborhood and the August sun we decided to drive to Bluff Lake Nature Center nearby and run mile loops around the lake. Our thought was it would be cooler and provide a fair amount of cloud cover.
The heat really got to me today as well as my attempts to keep in step with my speedster husband. Two miles in, I announced I would have to slow down and he could run at his own pace. He gleefully sped along.
The little hill climb on one side of the lake seemed steeper as I called out my go to running mantra to power me through it. Inhale strength. Exhale doubt. I made it up the hill but not without a large degree of urpiness and a promise to myself, “I’ll curb the midday runs in our area until the fall.”