Swimming
I took some advice and did some research on swimming yesterday. Found a training program that I’m gonna try. It’s called 0 to 1650 because it will take me from swimming 0 yards to 1650 yards (approx 1 mile) in 6 weeks. I’m starting it today and the first week (3 days) looks like this:
Swim 100 yards and rest for 12 breaths…repeat for a total of 300 yards
Swim 50 yards and rest for 8 breaths…repeat for a total of 150 yards
Swim 25 yards and rest for 4 breaths…repeat for a total of 75 yards
That will be a total of 525 yards each day, which, by the way, is more than I’ll actually have to swim in the tri I’m looking at. I thought it was an 800 meter swim…nope…only 350…I’m sure I can handle that by October!!
The bike ride is 13.8 miles and the run 3.1 miles. I’ll start incorporating cycling and running in a few weeks provided the disk is feeling better. And…hopefully by that time I can get back to the weights….I’m REALLY missing that…A LOT
July 18, 2007 at 8:46 am
Very good, maybe you will be the next Janet Evans! Hey, another tip for you - there are tons of training plans for tris of all distances on the ‘net. If you check out trainingpeaks.com I’m sure you can find something to structure your training.