Sunday, October 29, 2006
Adventures in swimming
I spoke at the Fall Teams send off party for treasure island last week. They wanted me to share my TI story from last year. I am in the process of putting together an entry describing my adventure last year and will hopefully get it posted prerace to properly build suspense :-)
Training plan for Friday involved a ~60 minute ride in the morning with some friends from the team and then a quick open water swim and short run with a friend that I some how convinced to do the sprint distance next Sunday. The true fun part of the story involves the swim (as it usually does with me), however posting that story here may actually get me killed but suffice to say that involves my friend getting attacked by a "man eating" seal ;-) Other then the seal attack and my friend ripping her wetsuit, it was a fairly uneventful swim.
So this was my big last week to peek for TI and I was looking at my training totals and was surprised to find that through the whole week, I had not even done the distance of a 1/2 IM (close but not quite - see last weeks training totals on the side bar). I think because I am working on going faster that it feels like I am training more, but these distances are nothing compared to the distance I racked up when I tried to do Big Kahuna. But I do feel faster :-)
Training plan for Friday involved a ~60 minute ride in the morning with some friends from the team and then a quick open water swim and short run with a friend that I some how convinced to do the sprint distance next Sunday. The true fun part of the story involves the swim (as it usually does with me), however posting that story here may actually get me killed but suffice to say that involves my friend getting attacked by a "man eating" seal ;-) Other then the seal attack and my friend ripping her wetsuit, it was a fairly uneventful swim.
So this was my big last week to peek for TI and I was looking at my training totals and was surprised to find that through the whole week, I had not even done the distance of a 1/2 IM (close but not quite - see last weeks training totals on the side bar). I think because I am working on going faster that it feels like I am training more, but these distances are nothing compared to the distance I racked up when I tried to do Big Kahuna. But I do feel faster :-)
