17 day, 16 days to go

Today it was a combo. I realized that the recovery takes a bit longer than I thought. Doing one combo each week was not working for me, noticed that the third week in a row and have had one week’s rest from combo.

• Swimming 400 m

When I got to the pool the first three lanes was occupied by kids who had swimming school. The goal today was to crawl 2×25 m. Finally I got a lane for myself. After 100 m I crawled 25 m, oh gosh it really takes the life out of me, Very breathless. And then I did that twice.

The time today was around 11 min, the crawling might have slowed me down.

Swimming also feels in my neck afterwards. The swim goggles must fit more closely, got fog inside today. I had some pain in my right knee afterwards. I might have to stretch before I start swim.

Then it was time to bike to the gym and finish the last two disciplines: biking and running

Started with 20k biking, started with an incline of 5 and then increased it to 8. Three times I increased the incline to 10 and stood up for 1k

After 2k it did not look very promising

But after 7k I must have speeded it up a bit

At 10k

After 17k and the last incline of 10 and the familiar dyspnea

The total time today was 50.39 which is the fastest time so far 🙂

Then I went to the treadmill where it was time for 5k running in a comfortable pace. Started with 6min/k for 4.5k and then decided to speed it up the last 500m to 5 min/k. Total time today was 29.42 min

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