Post Pig/Pre Rev3 Knoxville

My first tri of the season is coming up in less than ten days.  That is slightly frightening but mostly exciting!  Ohio is not known for its fantastic weather, and is certainly not conducive to training for an early May triathlon.  But for some reason I decided that May was a good time to go out and start my race season.

I got my new wetsuit last week and already tried it out.  The really good part is that every part of me that was covered by cap, goggles, or wetsuit was perfectly warm and happy.  It was the other 3% of my body that was uncovered that was FREEZING.  Caesar Creek isn't exactly warm in the summer, but early to late spring meant absolutely frigid water.  The air temp was decent, but that water made my feet hurt since it was so cold.  I ended up swimming about a half mile in an attempt to get used to my new suit.  I decided that yep, it works just like my sleeveless but covers my arms, it didn't seem to kill my neck, and my feet were super cold, therefore I'm getting out.  That was good enough for me!  I'm hoping to get back up to Caesars this weekend and make another attempt to swim on Sunday.  I think the weatherman is tired of being wrong by attempting to guess correctly anymore, so he's just saying it's supposed to storm from now until July.  The 10-Day forecast shows storms every day from today until next Saturday, but if you look at the percentages, some of them are as low as 10% chance of rain/storms.  Whatever floats his boat.  I'm just hoping to get some more open water swim practice because I sincerely miss having my lane lines, black line on the bottom, walls for flip turns, and big plus signs at the ends to keep myself going straight and not have to worry about wandering around like a snake.

My Zo pup waiting for me to throw her ball.

Wandering into the effing cold water to start my swim.  

I wanted to make the table festive, so I decided to buy flowers for the table :)

Outside of that I've just been working and training.  Ali and I finished in 1:55:18 for the Half Marathon this past weekend.  Our half way point pace was 9:09/mile, we finished with an 8:49/mile pace overall.  The weather was quite nice, not too hot, not too cold, and the sun wasn't trying to bake us this year like it has in years before.  

Training this week: 

Sunday: Flying Pig Half Marathon, Caesar Creek swim

Monday: 43 mile bike ride

Tuesday: Lifting, 6 mile run (really only ran 5 miles and I walked the 6th mile)

Wednesday: 2000m swim

Thursday: heading out for a 5.5 mile run

Planned for Friday: 75 min bike and a 2200 swim

Planned for Saturday: Rest

Planned for Sunday: 1 hr run + open water swim (weather permitting)  Happy Mother's Day!  Mom is coming down to visit that afternoon, so I'll be up early getting everything else in :)