Conversations about triathlons are interesting. The first couple of minutes are akward trying to convey what a triathlon entails. And then there is the obligatory, "Your body seems made for that kind of thing...". Sigh. Another person discounting the huge amount of work I have done to build up and maintain my fitness for this type of event.
So this post should give a rough idea of how much work it takes to COMPLETE an Olympic distance triathlon. Granted some people have the time to work a lot more and some people are not able to work so much. This post shows what I sort of commited myself to (can you "sort of commit" to something?)
Here are my totals as of January 1st. I did quite a bit more work prior to this (5 months), however it is not documented...So this is the accumulation of what I have documented in this blog:
Training Sessions: 70 (approximately one training session every 2.5 days). Each training session is between 30 minutes and 2 hours.
Gym: 28 trips
Swim: 14 sessions
Pool: 10 trips to the Issaquah Pool. Each trip I to the pool, I completed 1 mile (33 laps)
Open Water: 4 There have been 2 open water swims in lake samammish that were 1.1 miles. There was a .4 mile swim and a .2 mile swim.
Cycling: 17
Most Cycling trips were along the Burke-Gilman Trail. Most trips were more than half of the race distance. I did two rides that were the full race distance, one ride that was 22 miles, and several other 14 mile rides (to and from work). I am not going to do the ride to/from work any more as it is too stressful.
I don't think I had any rides that were less than 6 miles, while most of them were 16.
Running:11
About half of my runs are 10k distances. I have a few 5k distances and a few short runs that took place in the rain and snow.
So this post should give a rough idea of how much work it takes to COMPLETE an Olympic distance triathlon. Granted some people have the time to work a lot more and some people are not able to work so much. This post shows what I sort of commited myself to (can you "sort of commit" to something?)
Here are my totals as of January 1st. I did quite a bit more work prior to this (5 months), however it is not documented...So this is the accumulation of what I have documented in this blog:
Training Sessions: 70 (approximately one training session every 2.5 days). Each training session is between 30 minutes and 2 hours.
Gym: 28 trips
Swim: 14 sessions
Pool: 10 trips to the Issaquah Pool. Each trip I to the pool, I completed 1 mile (33 laps)
Open Water: 4 There have been 2 open water swims in lake samammish that were 1.1 miles. There was a .4 mile swim and a .2 mile swim.
Cycling: 17
Most Cycling trips were along the Burke-Gilman Trail. Most trips were more than half of the race distance. I did two rides that were the full race distance, one ride that was 22 miles, and several other 14 mile rides (to and from work). I am not going to do the ride to/from work any more as it is too stressful.
I don't think I had any rides that were less than 6 miles, while most of them were 16.
Running:11
About half of my runs are 10k distances. I have a few 5k distances and a few short runs that took place in the rain and snow.
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