I was going to be updating this weekly, so I could keep an eye on how things are progressing – now we are getting towards middle of March, so must be time for an update?
Tried to keep up with a swim and a cycle a week, and he normal 3 days a week running – which is still going okay. It snowed quite a bit last week which meant I gave up on the cycle – but did run through some impressive drifts last weekend – makes the run a bit more tiring!
Going into Cardiff one day a week, which means I am getting some time in the 50 meter pool in Cardiff, its a lot better training in this than when I trained for the triathlon, which was in a tiny pool, about 20 meters – but it does mean there are many more people there – every single one swimming quicker than I am. The other week there was a woman in a buoyancy aid, basically sitting up in the pool, and even she was going faster than me.
One day a week cycle is really probably not enough, and I have only just started to increase the mileage – max was 50 miles with the Tumble (big hill) which was very tiring, the rest have ben a 30 and a 40 – I intend to go out tomorrow, as I have a day ff – but I have the masseur coming at 2:30, so need to be back. Hopefully he’ll sort out my shoulder which is giving me pins and needles and maybe get my calves sorted?
At the moment, I am hoping for a 1:30 in the sea – which at the current speed of 45 mins for 1700 meters might just be doable – you have to get out in 2:20, so I need to aim for 1:30 – which is going to take some speed improvements.
The bike needs to be complete by 10hrs 30, so take away maybe 2hrs for the swim and that’s only 8hrs for the cycle – which is going to be tight – then you have 6.5hrs to complete the marathon – which I need to be looking at perhaps 5.5 for that?
Anyway – going to be tough.
This weeks numbers;
Swim 1700 meters
Cycle 0
Run 29 miles
Beers 10 ish