29 day, 28 days to go

In the morning I biked to Actic at Delphi and was going to do another full combo. It was time to initialize my swimming goggles

Today I was not alone and decided to see what total time I would have swimming 400 m breaststroke and it was not that bad, around 10 min even if it was zigzag swimming.

Decided to stay at Actic to do the biking and running, had a chance to check out another gym than the one that I am at.

If last week’s combo felt tough, it was not even close to how it felt today. I decided to just bike, no hilly program. To have something positive to say about the running, the total time was under 1 h

Time for the running, did not understand this treadmill at all. Thought that Quickstart would do it but had to go and ask for help so I could start to run 5k. Decided to run in a comfortable pace, 6 min/k but let me tell you, my legs felt like lead so I had to decrease the speed to be able to survive this.

The last 700 m was the longest in history, to get this over with fast I increased the speed to 6 min/k and the total time today was 32.06

You cannot see this in this picture but I am sitting down

Was glad that I was exercising indoors when the weather has been like this today.

The rest of the afternoon will on the couch watching cross country skiing competitions

36 day, 35 days to go

Biked to Delphinen to swim 400 m, the water was cold and then I know that it will be colder later this year. I asked a girl if she knew how long the pool was but she did not know but I guessed it was 25 m so 16 laps. Now I was the destroyer, it was 4 lanes and 4 were already swimming. Chose lane no 1. Started with breaststroke in a slow pace because it was not going very fast in the first two lanes and I just had to do something about that. So I was osciallated between lane 1 and 2 to be able to swim in my pace. Couldn’t forget the comment my brother told me Christmas Eve when I told him I was planning to do Sövde Triathlon sprint, “Sister you cannot swim”. What do you mean by that???? You have to crawl. A long time ago I was going to crawl school so I had to try to crawl and the first time it was a little less than 12.5 m and oh boy how breathless I became, that was tough. I tried it out another 12.5 m later on. Here needs some work if I am going to be able to mix crawling and breststroke in June. I didn’t take the time but swam 400 m. Found out from the girl in the second lane that the pool was 25 m.

Time to bike to the gym and bike 20k and run 5k

The biking felt tough from the very beginning. I thought I could choose another program this time instead of Variety but I started with the program Interval but it was no fun and went over to Variety and thought that I could decrease the incline to 14 instead of 18 but when it was time I realized you could not decrease anything just increase it and ended up increment everything +1 so now incline 18 was 19

The total time today was 51.45 min which was a bit faster than last week.

Time for running 5k. I thought I could take it slow and have a 6 min pace but then Suz came into my head and told me “You know why you are here” and it is so true. Had to challenge myself again. So I started with 6 min pace, after 1.25k  increased it to 5.42 min/k, after 1.25k increased it to 5.27 min/k and then at 3k increased it to 5.13 min/k and then at 4k increased it to 5 min/k. It is so interesting how long the last 1k can feel, the same last week. I forgot to see what the total time was this week because I was so tired.

Oh boy was I tired after 400m swimming, 20k biking and 5k running.

What have I gotten myself into

43 day, 42 days to go

Someone has planted a seed in my head, something that I have been thinking I might do but have not move forward.

Biked to the gym in the morning and did a test today

Maybe you Coach K Runners can see what linen I am wearing, one of the linen in the new collection with the zebra line. I can let you know that it does not chafe. I did another test, wearing my black running shorts and my new linen that might be what I am wearing in June.

I am a rookie but why not challenge myself, this could happen. Chose the program Variety because I believe it will be a hilly during the biking session but this program was mostly hilly, incline between 1 and 18, most of the hills were 10 and 14.

The only boring thing with biking at the gym is that you are not getting anywhere but today I was glad I was not doing this test outside.

The total time was around 52 min and this year the slowest time was 58 min so there is some hope, the fastest time was 36.49 but I am very sure I will not be among the best. I was quite beat after the biking and the legs felt like jelly.

But I had one more thing to do before the test was over, time to get on the treadmill.

one thing that we hear a lot at the physical training is to remember why we are there, thank you Suz. Started with a speed of 6 min per k (10) but wanted to challenge myself also here. After 1.25k it was time to increase the speed to 10.5, at 2.5k I increased the speed to 11, at 3.5k I increased the speed to 11.5 (5.13) and then at 4k I increased the speed to 5 min per k (12). The run was flat but I suspect it will be a hilly running.

The total time was 28.07 min and the slowest time this year was 37.02 min and the fastest time was 21.31 min and that is not in my league.

I can say that I was a bit sweaty after this test but I am glad I did it.

It was with heavy legs I was biking home and the rest of the afternoon I will look at the ski competitions