Mini-tri

Thanks for the welcome, Ron.

In the past 5 days, I've rummaged through dozens of tri sites, reading and learning about anything and everything I can. Your site looks great, especially the BB portion.

My main concern when I signed up for the tri was the same as most... do I have the ability to swim that far. I found a great site, www.swim.ee, which gives awesome step-by-step lessons on proper ways to swim and technique. After viewing some of the videos and reading the tutorials, I improved my 1/2-mile swim time by a whopping 11 minutes (49 to 38 minutes), overnight (literally). I thought that wasn’t too bad for my second time swimming for distance, ever!

I’m excited to be getting back into shape and competing in athletics at a higher level. I’ve only been training for about a week and I’ve noticed that during my runs, swims, and biking, the limiting factor to my workouts isn’t my cardio… it’s muscle fatigue. I realize I won’t get my legs back for a few weeks, but it’s frustrating when my mind and chest say go, and my legs (and arms) say no.

Oh, one quick question… I didn’t see a “links” sections on this webpage. Did I miss it? Here are a few great swimming links that I’ve found:

www.swim.ee
www.aquademics.com

- Adam


Edited by Nicholi 2003-07-13 9:08 AM

Hang in there! Getting past the psychological part of training is sometimes the toughest hurdle that you can have. Sounds like you have made dramatic improvements for your swim so keep up the good work and everything will fall into place. So welcome to the Board.

Still Tri’n
Michael

P.S. thanks for the links, old dogs can always try to learn a new trick!