The triumphs and travails of my foray into the world of athleticism.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Swimming is good

I've been doing laps regularly, and I'm improving already. Wednesday night I did 16 laps, so I know that I'm good to go for the race. I'm also signed up for some private swim lessons, and that should help as well. I've never had lessons and I know that I'm probably doing things all wrong and improvement in my breathing and form will help a lot.
Wednesday was also the first time I swam with goggles, and it was pretty cool. Strange- everything was magnified- but really cool.

As far as the biking and running, it's been a slow week. My knees have been really sore this week, and I'm not sure if it's from the biking or the weather. I know that I'll be fine in the bike portion of the race even if I don't get to practice much. The real question is how jellified my legs will be for the run that comes after it. Of course, we have like a 3 hour time limit or something obscene like that for 4 miles, so even if I'm totally jelly legs at first, I'll be fine.

I'm also chilling on the running this week, because my legs are trying to have shin splints, and that just can't happen. I have my 1/2 marathon a week from Sunday, and I know I'll be fine. My goal is just to do it faster than my previous time of 3:58:59. I know I can do that. I'm probably going to be pretty sore, though, since I haven't done any distance in quite a while. Oh well. It's good for me.

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