JADDOG

Last fall I bought a road bike. I’ve really enjoyed spending time with some other guys on the road accumulating miles on the bike. Thus far my most memorable ride is the 58 mile route we took from Burlington, NC back to Cary, NC. We put our bikes on the train in Cary and took the forty-five minute train ride to Burlington and rode our bikes back. While sharing this story with some friends of my wife and mine The idea of training for a triathlon suddenly became a reality when I found out that there are sprint triathlons. Translated into nooby terms… short triathlons. Before that day I always wrote them off as too long.

As of now I’m signed up for a metric century bike race in February and planning to sign up for a “sprint” triathlon in April, probably will sign up for the triathlon before February to avoid the extra fees

By this point I suppose you may be wondering where the 600 yards comes from. I started training for the triathlon today by swimming 600 yards. My plan in to swim Tuesdays and Thursdays and run every other day. I’m going to try training for swimming by working up to 1000 yard workouts. I’ll train for running by working up to 3.5 mile workouts. I don’t think I’ll need to train any more intensely for biking since I have the 62 mile race I’m working towards. As weather permits I plan to try and double up some of the running and cycling workouts. Maybe one weekend I could start at the pool and bike home. Hopefully I’ll be able to complete my first triathlon when April rolls around.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 1:17 pm and is filed under Running the Race.