Solo

I'm solo this week while Chris is out of town. I don't know how single parents do it. I don't know how my mom did it with two of us. I hope I still have hair left by Sunday.

Heading to the gym today to do a spin class.

Talked to Peter about my swim times. He recommends I swim 4x200 and write down my stroke count for the first 25 and the last 25 of each 200 as well as the time I come in on. Repeat with 4x100. I will probably video my stroke and post here so he can give me some pointers.

Looking forward to the weather getting nicer so I can bring my bike to work and ride at lunch.

Riding

I hate coming up with the titles for these blogs.

Saturday, Michelle and I rode for 2 hours. Started out in 38 degree weather, but ended with 50. We started with drills with some girls from Tri Babes, then Michelle and I split. We rode NCAR, then 93 to Marshall to Cherryvale to Baseline. It was a great ride.

Took Chris to the airport this morning for his week at the Advanced Triathlon Camp in Solvang. He is going to have a great week.

Unmotivated

Wednesday I ran 45 minutes at 150HR. It felt good.

Thursday - lame, lame, and lame. I was so lame yesterday. I had no motivation at all. I ended up going home at noon, took a hot bath and watched 5 hours of TV in bed. No training.

Today - I'll swim. The plan is:
300 WU
100 DRILLS
100 KICK
100 PULL
100 DRILL
MAIN SET- [@ my 100 PACE ZONE 3 ] 8 X 100
8 X 50 BUILD
4 x 25 FAST
200 CD
=2200

Adventures

Yesterday, I did a short run at lunch. My legs felt slow and unmotivated. I was more excited to ride my bike that evening with Michelle than run. I know, the love affair has started.

About adventures...our ride started off at 6:15, great weather, great pace (kept the HR low low low). We did a tour of Broomfield, ventured out on a road we've never taken just to see what was on the other end. It turned out to be a dead end so we ended up doing some cyclocross to get to the next road. A few tumbleweeds later, we made it and were back on track. It was a short ride 13 miles/1 hour, but it was truly enjoyable.

Here's to more adventures (big and small) Michelle!

The beginning

This is my first blog posting. I'm going to be using the blog as my training journal. After the week in Solvang, I'm pumped to get fit on my bike. This is a huge deal for me, since I don't really enjoy being on my bike because I'm not that good. But, I'm going to start a love affair with my Ionic and become one with my bike.

My base fitness still has about six weeks to get where I need to be to start working on speed, etc.
Goals for this year are to compete in the same six sprint races I did last year, only I don't want to be 2nd, I want to be 1st. This means I must cut atleast 5 minutes from my bike time in a 12-15 mile ride.

Let the games begin.