End of September

This has been a hectic week at work and a hectic month in general. I am getting into a fall routine. I haven't cycled outside at all over the last couple of weeks since doing the schubie triathlon. My motivation is that not high to cycle right now as i am done racing for the season and i did alot of races. I have had a couple of exciting developments this week; one was that the UPEI swim team opened up their training to traithletes and this is just what I need ( see previous posts re my recent decline in swim performance and motivation) I have gone the last two days and it is great. When you are put in a competitive training environment you swim so much harder and faster. I was doing 50 metres today at close to 40 seconds where i was struggling to keep it under 50 seconds training on my own. I also received confirmation from triathlon canada that i am on the Canadian age group team for the 2011 World ITU Championships in Beijing, China. It is a bit of a lark because my qualification was in a race where there were not many people in my age group but nevertheless, I qualified and am able to go. It is an excuse to go to China which is someplace I would never go to. It is set for Sept, 2011. It will also give a focus to my training over the next year. This UPEI swim training will be helpful; I need to work on getting faster over ten k; and it will give me incentive to get on the bike trainor this winter. This week my training goal was 3 swims; 3 runs, 3 yoga and 2 spin classes. I should complete that by running today and tomorrow. (i have only run once so far this week) In terms of insensity, the two swims with UPEI were very intense and the one run was a fast 8 k.

Getting into a fall routine

Last week i seemed to get back into a routine a bit more; I swam 3 times about 2000 metres each time; I did two spin classes; did hot yoga three times and ran twice. I would like to runa bit more but can't always fit everything in. I ran yesterday about 8 k and ran quite fast and felt good. Also did a spin class yesterday. This morning I swam and I plan to do hot yoga after work. regarding next year, i was thinking of getting into Lake Placid by donation but I think i will forgo that on the assumption I may be going to china to the world olympic championships. It sounds a bit funny saying that but I guess i qualified and there is no reason why i couldn't go (other than it will be a big expensive trip) I will definitely do the mooseman half iron in the spring and maybe timberman in august which i have never done.