Road to Wildflower Pt. 1
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time you know that I’ve signed up to the the Wildflower Triathlon and that I’m pretty damned frightened of what I’ve set out for myself to do. Well I’m a bit less so now. I think I’ll be OK. It’s doable, the hardest part isn’t going to be doing the Triathlon. It’s going to be getting to the triathlon without getting injured.
Two weeks ago I went to the course. My girlfriend and I took a trip south to Lake San Antonio and spent a very chilly weekend at the Campground. On Saturday I biked the bike course and on Sunday I ran the run course. It was hard. Very hard. The 40K bike is nothing to scoff at. There are several hills a few of them pretty steep. The run course wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be. I actually run better up hill than I do on flat ground. Doing the two in tandem will be much harder, especially after the 1.5K swim which is my worst sport.
I’ve been training a little. After Martin Luther King weekend I had to take a week off due to the damage I did to my knees that weekend. Don’t just go out and do that kind of distance after 2 months of zero training. You might finish but the end result isn’t pretty. I’ve only been running and only 3 miles 2 times a week at that. The idea is the get the body used to the impact again and to focus on mechanics, which is difficult to do if you are tired or soar. Tomorrow I’ll start back to swimming and likely add that in at least 2 days a week. The biking will wait a bit, it’s my strongest sport by far so I want to spend some time strengthening the other two before I really start the 6 day a week routine.
This weekend I’ll be heading down to Lake San Antonio again. Maybe if the temperature breaks 50 degrees I’ll do a swim too. I’ll get some pictures of the course and maybe write something a bit more personal while I’m there. I’m hoping to make this a regular series here. The Wildflower Triathlons are 3 months out and I’ve alot to do before arriving there. I’ve always wondered what others have done to get to a Triathon, what kind of lives they lead, and how they prepare. Since I’ve not had any luck finding that kind of information on the web I guess I’ll make my own.
Also I’ve started writing a program to track my training and display the training routes. I’ll get it up soon. It’s written to suport multiple users so if and when I think it’s stable enough I’ll open it up to anybody silly enough to trust me with their data. 