Oops

I apparently mixed up the number of weeks on my ironman training program and didn't realize yesterday was day one of 119 day training program for ironman Canada. The good news is that the training I had planned for this week exceeds the training on the plan by quite a bit. This is because I am gearing up for the Mooseman half ironman next month. Yesterday, I swam 2500 metres by just putting my head down and swimming 500s. I wanted to do longer sets for a change. I got off to a rough start by forgetting my swimming stuff in New Glasgow. So, I went to my house in town and found another swim suit and goggles and went back to the pool. After work I went riding with Ryan D. out to Pownal and then around China Point. It was a nice ride and a little windy coming back. I think its about 60 k in total. Three hours of training plus work on a Monday is not bad.

Today, I plan to run for an hour after work. Tomorrow, weather permitting, I may try to do the Mother's Day time trial route in case I do that on the weekend. I have my swim lesson tomorrow morning. Thursday, my plan is to do the longest run I have done in a while (about 23 k.) to have that out of the way before the weekend. Saturday morning I plan to go riding for 3 or 4 hours and will maybe do the Mother's Day time trial as part of that. I will get up early and ride out to the time trial. Time trials are the one thing that I am decent at since that is all you do in triathlon. In road racing, you speed up and slow down and I have no experience doing that. The one thing that could change my plans re Saturday would be rain. I have no interest in racing in the rain when I don't have to. Spending over 11 hours during ironman Lake Placid last year in a complete downpour was enough to do me for a long while.

Last night, I was just about falling asleep around 11pm when I started to think about triathlons, my schedule, racing etc... and I woke right up and then couldn't get to sleep for another hour and a half.