First Day Jitters

It's here.............Day 1.

138 days to go.

Today was my first official training day for the 1/2 iron man in June. The schedule called for a 1 hr bike, hill repeats. Well it's too chilly to hit the road and the trainer just doesn't give you a good hill to work with. So it was off to spin class. Today was AT intervals. I rocked at spin. Dripping with sweat as I met every challenge. You want my HR over AT? No problem. Drop it down for a minute then right back up to AT? No problem. Sprints at 120 revolutions? No problem. Throw it at me........I can handle it. Great class today. I did exactly what my favorite instructor told us to do and my HR felt like cooperating today.

Next up was an hour swim or 3100y/2800m. Seemed like it would be a good work out nothing to difficult and I was right. It was a great workout except for the fact that I'm too slow! I couldn't do what they were asking of me within the hour time frame. Started with a 300m warm up. My father insists we didn't need the warm up as we just finished spin class. That man can not follow a training program! Anyway, after the warm up it was 5 sets of 300m. At the end of each 100m you were to swim very fast for 25m all other laps were easy. Rest 45 seconds in between each 300. Much harder to do than it looks on paper. Next up 10 sets of 100m. rest 20 secs between each. 25 hard, 75 cruise. This wasn't too bad but I finally called it quits after the 6th one. My father called it quits a few before that. I already had been swimming an hour and 10 mins.

I have to keep in mind that this training program is based on time spent training, not the distance. They never say go bike 40 miles. It's go bike 2 hours then run 1 hour. They tell you how to do each workout and at what intensity. The rest is up to me. Hopefully as the days and weeks go on, 1 hour will be plenty for me to swim 3100y. Funny thing is that the race is a 1.2 mile swim. That's only about a 2000m swim. I did more than that the first day of training!

My first day jitters are in the bag.

Bring on day 2...........