I’m probably going to stop trying to keep track of the specific training days I’m on according to my schedule here, because it’s kind of a pain and things are getting switched around a lot. Besides, it’s all on Strava anyway, so this blog serves a different purpose.
Last night I registered for three triathlons. They are each at least two weeks apart from each other, and happen toward the end of the summer. After all, that’s what triathlon refers to, right? Doing three of them?
I have no idea whether I can even do one, at this point. I’m able to complete distances equivalent to each of the individual legs of a sprint triathlon, so I know I could do them in isolation. Hopefully I’ve got enough time for training to put them all together.
I also don’t know what kind of recovery time I’ll need in between events, so that’s kind of a gamble. However, I’ve run a couple of marathons in the past and I know that after two weeks I could have gone for another good long run again, and I think marathons are much harder than sprint triathlons, at least at the speed I’ll be going (slow).
One of the triathlons I registered for has a “Clydesdale” category for men 220 lbs+. I decided to go for that category rather than the age group I’d be in. Might as well embrace it.
Training is starting to improve slightly. I’m less exhausted every day, and the workouts don’t hurt quite so much. Stil a long way to go before I’m at a weight I feel comfortable with and before I can do a workout that feels sufficient to me, but I feel like I’m starting to get over the initial hump of awful.
