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