Hard Core Tri Corps (Team 8) Thread (Page 21)

I have to indulge myself with a moment's boasting. I swam 100m last night without stopping. And I've only been to three swimming training sessions since I restarted my training.

I am so thrilled with this!!!!! (can you tell??)

To put this in context (because I know it pales next to Greg's monster swim ) when I started triathlon training (pre-baby), I couldn't swim 25m front crawl and it took me a long time to build up to 100m. In my one triathlon, I ended up swimming with my head out of the water because the waves were freaking me out . When I re-started swimming, I was pleased that I could manage 25m and even 50m without drowning, but kind-of assumed it would take me longer to get to 100m.

My next goal is to crack 200m - and then 400m, which is a big goal because it's the distance for my first sprint triathlon next year. The ultimate goal is 750m because that's the distance for the Windsor Sprint in June (my A race).

Andrew, I'm amazed at that!!!Your swim logs are seriously IMPRESSSIVE reading--between the two men on our team and a few serious swimmers here I could get some stinking HARD AZZ swim work outs! I agree, swimming is hard but it has to do a lot with learning the timing to breathe and keeping the technique focused.  Each of the disciplines has its own challenge but the swim seems to be a consistent "fear" in a lot of peoples minds.  I know many docs who have confided in me that they're afraid to get their faces in the water and therefore do not swim...Cracks me up for some reason Probably because I see them in codes and such so calm and collected  and then they panic in water...

oops, I did--maybe it's a premonition o swim prowress to come

OK.  I'm within 2,000m of my 25,000m challenge.  I'll complete 2,000m tomorrow, if all goes as planned.

Someone repost the google spreadsheet.  I'm having a hard time finding it in the 17 pages of this thread!!!

Thanks.  I forgot I still had the link there.  I updated week three. 

Well I made 95% of my running goal which I'm really pleased about! (I would have made 100% if I hadn't slept through my alarm yesterday ).

As for my bike goal, not so good. My excuses are that the weather has been appalling and my weekends have been really crazy-busy.

But I did achieve a goal that I hadn't planned on meeting, which was to start swimming again, so I'm totally thrilled with my progress for November.

Couldn't have done it without this fabulous group!

Congrats to everyone for the progress they've made and thanks for all the support and encouragement.

Terri,

That's the hard part of setting up a challenge at any part of this...enough to challenge myself to grow but not so much I can't possibly get there from here.  I'm a bit nervous about my swim goals next month, my coach didn't want to set a yardage goal initially but I told him what we did in the past 2 months and he went just over the Oct. distances.  I think everyone should be proud of what has been accomplished and just analyze what didn't get done enough to figure out if the goal was set too high or if outside factors such as illness/injury prevented the goal from being met.  Some of those outside factors simply can't be changed and some of them take a creative approach to deal with