Swim! Run! Bike?

Good Lord I’m bad at writing on this thing. It’s funny because I always have tons of ideas what I want to write but just never get around to writing them. Ok I’m going to try SO hard to write more often on this thing, as it gives me inspiration to get farther and faster and better than I was from the previous entry.

So the training is coming along rather nicely but of course there are the ups and downs of training for any long race such as an IM. The ups are I’m starting to workout more often and more consistently, during the week, and the downs are I’m sucking at working out on the weekends and getting those long rides/runs in...a change that must be made ASAP!

Every week day at lunch I am going to the gym and getting in either a run or a swim. In the last 3 weeks alone I have swum more times than I did all last season, and keep in mind last season I did an IM! Yea, can you tell swimming is not my favorite of the three? My swimming is probably where I’m seeing the most improvement…going from doing a 2 min to 2:10min /100m at a comfortable pace to doing a 1:40/ 100m pace is a big deal in my book. I know the time still sucks but I never, nor will I ever, claim to be a great, or even good swimmer. However, now I’m more excited to get in the pool and see how much faster I can go! I love to push myself and when I can see improvement it gives me that much more of a reason to push harder and harder. Then there’s running…

This last year being out in CO, running has been my biggest heart break. In DC I was running, easily, a 7:30/mile pace and once I moved out here I could NOT get below a 9/mile pace, it was AWFUL!!! I started to absolutely hate running and definitely wanted to give up, but after my somewhat decent marathon at the IM, I figured I should push through, what everyone was telling me was a high altitude adjustment, and strive to be that 7/mile runner I once was. Well I’m back on the road and improving everyday! I can now do an easy 8:20/mile pace, still sucky but definitely improving, and that’s after only running for 2 weeks consistently. So it’s a small feat but an optimistic one for me.

And as for biking, I haven’t been doing much of that. I would like to blame my little time in the saddle on just buying and moving into a new house but really, that’s no excuse. I’ve been on the bike once this week and plan on riding tonight, tomorrow, and, hopefully, Saturday….we’ll see how it goes.

Thus, more biking and more weekend rides/runs is really what I’m striving for now. I figure if I suck it up and become a little more disciplined that as I put more time into everything, eventually the improvement in times will come naturally. Here’s hoping!