Training Log

Happy Mother's Day! Not much opportunity to run but did walk with the family and Carbon about 2 to 3 miles.

Fit in a slow 7-mile run after work, caught the end of Jacob's t-ball game, then took Carbon to agility.

Rode to work today - 12 miles total.  Felt very tired today as well as yesterday and Sunday.  Going to bed early tonight to see if that helps.  Two triathlons this weekend, back-to-back, amateur challenge.

Rode the triathlon bike after wok, intending to do about 17 miles or so then run.  Had a flat at 17.84 miles, about .7 miles from home, so had to walk the bike home in cycling shoes with cleats on the bottom.  Put the bike away and got out the door to run 6.3 mile loop, added the .7 I walked to the run distance since it WAS on foot!  ; )  Took it easy on the run since the triathlons are this weekend. 

Attended Jacob's jr. kindergarten graduation after work.  No running tonight!

Swam 500 yards in the morning.  Triathlon tomorrow.

Swim-Mtn Bike-Trail Run

2  19 Nicki Hutchens       49    2   21:10  1:30    1   48:50  12.3  0:54    2   25:23  8:28 1:37:45 Collierville TN

19th female, 2nd in age group (there were only two, but hey, I'll take it).  The swim is always a toss-up for me.  I can have a decent day and a not so decent day.  Today was the latter. It took m 21:10 minutes to get out of the water.  In open water swims in lakes in this area, with so much algae and other stuff in the water, I sometimes start wheezing as soon as I get in.  Today was one of those, so ended up doing the breast stroke most of the way which is very inefficient.  I was glad to get out of the water!

The mountain bike course was challenging but not technical.  The run was not too hard, but I wore the wrong shoes, thinking more of it would be on pavement.  I learn something from every race.

Supposed to do the olympic distance tomorrow, but not sure yet if I will - if it were only the bike and run, yes, but with the poor day on the swim today,  I'll have to see how I feel in the morning.