It’s now Saturday morning for me, and my first sprint triathlon is tomorrow morning! I’m super excited.
To give you some background, I’ve done a “super-sprint” triathlon before … 400m swim, 6-mile bike, 3K run … but that was much easier and was a year and a half ago … I completely stopped biking and swimming after that, and even before that I had only just started.
So this past month of triathlon training has been incredibly fun, and I’m just learning to swim and bike, really, and to build up endurance in each sport.
My goal in tomorrow’s triathlon is just to finish and have fun. And I’m pretty sure I can do both. I won’t be fast or competitive, but that’s OK.
I have another sprint triathlon in three weeks … it’s the exact same course, so I should be able to see if I’m getting better. My goals for that one will also be to finish and have fun, but also to do it a bit faster than this first one.
I know I can do the swim, although it will be the hardest leg of the triathlon for me by far. It’s 750 meters, which I’ve never actually done all in a row without breaks. I plan to do it by breaking up the freestyle swimming with a little breaststroke for resting purposes.
The bike is 12 miles, and that shouldn’t be super hard, although it might be if 1) I’m too tired from the swim and/or 2) I start out at a pace that’s too fast. I hope to go at a medium pace, for me, which would be slow for most people. I’m just riding a mountain bike, so I won’t be fast anyway. I hope to get a road bike later this year!
The run is a 5K, and that’s not a problem, although I know from my brick workouts that running after cycling is tough. :)
Wish me luck! I’m really looking forward to this.
