this sporting caper
what did I do with my swimming icon? hrmmm
have at least two months of reading to recap, but since ramping up tri training it has virtually come to a halt anyway, so.
was thinking earlier this week that I can envisage myself running 5K in under 30 minutes far more easily than I can having a waist under 80cm.
THEN, it turns out, perhaps I far closer to the 5K goal than I realise!
I ran around Albert Park (5K) and got 36 minutes. Pretty steady pace, didn't kill myself (except for sweat blinding me, ew) and also didn't have to stop and walk.
But then on Tuesday we did a 50 minute wind trainer (=bike) session and MSAC and were supposed to go for a 20 minute run afterwards, and I did 2.77km/14:21 (pace 5:11/km)!
I am not entirely sure that is accurate; RK initially didn't get a GPS lock when I started. And the splits are sus (first km = 1:47 pace? right...) But the map is accurate, so...
Normally that distance would take me 20 minutes, at least it does on my morning and evening shuffles by myself. So I'm not sure what made me so sprinty this day - running with other people, or maybe the extreme warm-up. And here I always thought warm-ups were just a waste of good running Ks...
anyway I definitely couldn't keep that pace for 5K at the moment, but it is definitely encouraging.
so I have signed up for my first tri of the season, and second ever: the St Kilda Active Feet - 20th November, 150m/7km/1.5km.
The distance is ridiculously tiny even compared to my first tri in January, Sandringham (that was 250m/8km/2.5km, as well as a ridiculous run up a hill from the beach). The fact that the 'mini' ones are not a standard length is yet another good reason to start doing sprint distances (500m/20km/5km) ASAP - at least they can be compared. I should go and practice the course before the race, seeing it's so close.
I'm also going to sign up for a 5K run in early December, which will be my first running event ever.
Back to tris; there are 7 in the Supersprint series. I have to miss the 2nd in Elwood (friend's birthday weekend) and the 4th in Sandringham (cousin's wedding, not that I am sad to miss it, due to aforementioned hill). So I can do the 3rd in Brighton (day before LCA starts... what could go wrong?!) and possibly the 5th (Elwood) 6th (Portarlington) and 7th (St Kilda) - these are all from late Feb, so too far away to book in for sure yet. I was fretting about not having a car before, but someone from Flexicar pointed out that you can fit a bike in the car by putting down the backseat. Much win!!
I would also like to do at least one ocean swim, and hey, maybe one dedicated bike event, just to round the season out...
(Did my first Beach Road ride last weekend - by myself, still haven't got this 7am-Sunday caper happening. I can see why so many love it, despite the traffic danger...)
Well, still need to focus on acquiring a road bike. Bought plastic toe clips for my old trusty bike, they are brilliant. $16, great investment.
The thing that is great about tri training is the variety. If you don't do at least 2 sessions a week in a discipline it starts to feel like ages since you've done it. So you can spend a LOT of hours training and not get at all bored.
Triathlon, like its constituent parts, is very individualistic, and that encourages a great degree of narcissism. It is nice being in a club; having people to compete against and puzzle over the very finest points of technique and gadget with. But at the end of the day you only rely on yourself.
Like all sporting endeavours, I guess, I feel that it is not very creative. Determination and practice are good qualities but they don't require creativity. Maybe it is part of the reason I have never been drawn to it. You devote hours to it and at the end of it, what new thing do you have to show for it? You feel good and are generally better centred in your body, but still...I could be thinking! Or at least reading tumblr.
anyway that's all I got, more cool running to read and RK stats to pore over :)
have at least two months of reading to recap, but since ramping up tri training it has virtually come to a halt anyway, so.
was thinking earlier this week that I can envisage myself running 5K in under 30 minutes far more easily than I can having a waist under 80cm.
THEN, it turns out, perhaps I far closer to the 5K goal than I realise!
I ran around Albert Park (5K) and got 36 minutes. Pretty steady pace, didn't kill myself (except for sweat blinding me, ew) and also didn't have to stop and walk.
But then on Tuesday we did a 50 minute wind trainer (=bike) session and MSAC and were supposed to go for a 20 minute run afterwards, and I did 2.77km/14:21 (pace 5:11/km)!
I am not entirely sure that is accurate; RK initially didn't get a GPS lock when I started. And the splits are sus (first km = 1:47 pace? right...) But the map is accurate, so...
Normally that distance would take me 20 minutes, at least it does on my morning and evening shuffles by myself. So I'm not sure what made me so sprinty this day - running with other people, or maybe the extreme warm-up. And here I always thought warm-ups were just a waste of good running Ks...
anyway I definitely couldn't keep that pace for 5K at the moment, but it is definitely encouraging.
so I have signed up for my first tri of the season, and second ever: the St Kilda Active Feet - 20th November, 150m/7km/1.5km.
The distance is ridiculously tiny even compared to my first tri in January, Sandringham (that was 250m/8km/2.5km, as well as a ridiculous run up a hill from the beach). The fact that the 'mini' ones are not a standard length is yet another good reason to start doing sprint distances (500m/20km/5km) ASAP - at least they can be compared. I should go and practice the course before the race, seeing it's so close.
I'm also going to sign up for a 5K run in early December, which will be my first running event ever.
Back to tris; there are 7 in the Supersprint series. I have to miss the 2nd in Elwood (friend's birthday weekend) and the 4th in Sandringham (cousin's wedding, not that I am sad to miss it, due to aforementioned hill). So I can do the 3rd in Brighton (day before LCA starts... what could go wrong?!) and possibly the 5th (Elwood) 6th (Portarlington) and 7th (St Kilda) - these are all from late Feb, so too far away to book in for sure yet. I was fretting about not having a car before, but someone from Flexicar pointed out that you can fit a bike in the car by putting down the backseat. Much win!!
I would also like to do at least one ocean swim, and hey, maybe one dedicated bike event, just to round the season out...
(Did my first Beach Road ride last weekend - by myself, still haven't got this 7am-Sunday caper happening. I can see why so many love it, despite the traffic danger...)
Well, still need to focus on acquiring a road bike. Bought plastic toe clips for my old trusty bike, they are brilliant. $16, great investment.
The thing that is great about tri training is the variety. If you don't do at least 2 sessions a week in a discipline it starts to feel like ages since you've done it. So you can spend a LOT of hours training and not get at all bored.
Triathlon, like its constituent parts, is very individualistic, and that encourages a great degree of narcissism. It is nice being in a club; having people to compete against and puzzle over the very finest points of technique and gadget with. But at the end of the day you only rely on yourself.
Like all sporting endeavours, I guess, I feel that it is not very creative. Determination and practice are good qualities but they don't require creativity. Maybe it is part of the reason I have never been drawn to it. You devote hours to it and at the end of it, what new thing do you have to show for it? You feel good and are generally better centred in your body, but still...I could be thinking! Or at least reading tumblr.
anyway that's all I got, more cool running to read and RK stats to pore over :)