Subject: I did it! And a question... So, after a lot of procrastination I finally buckled down and started training seriously last September. And, this past Saturday I completed the Naples Full Triathlon in 14:03, a time I'm pretty happy with considering where I started and my only other tri experience, which was a half that went very poorly.
For training, I used Crossfit Endurance exercises sprinkled with some LSD work on the weekends. Most of my workouts were two-a-days, with an endurance workout in the morning and a regular crossfit WOD in the evening. I travel a lot, so I had to do a lot of swimming in place in hotel pools using a tether, and a lot of my crossfit WODs involved heavy use of bands for resistance (most hotel "exercise" rooms are nothing more than a few treadmills and an eliptical ).
The event was in Naples, FL, and it was part of the HITS Triathlon series. My question about that is, why aren't their races on most of the triathlon sites? And where do you go to review triathlons? I was originally going to run the Key West tri in late January, but they cancelled it so I found Naples and did that instead. But it's hard to find a review of their races, so I thought I might do my part by posting one. Can someone tell me where to do so?
Thanks! |