Workout: 2 miles easy. Normally don't run on Sundays, but it was too gorgeous not to!!
Back in April my little sister called and asked me to do the Champaign Mini Triathlon with her. At first I wasn't completely on board, but then she told me each distance and I knew I could handle it. It was only a 400 M swim, 6 mile bike, and 2 mile run. I looked at it as a good way to stay in shape for the summer.
The funny thing about staying in shape means you have to actually work out. Which I haven't done, like, hardly at all. I wish I had a good excuse, but basically I have been LAZY!! The Olympics didn't even motivate me to get off my butt!:( So the morning of the tri was the first time I had swam since January, the first time I mounted a bike in over a year, and the first time I ran over 1 mile in 4 days.
Lucky for me the first 200 M of the swim was in a lazy river. Everyone just dolphin dives this portion.....I had never even heard of a dolphin dive until 3 minutes before I entered the pool. It's easy peasy, thank goodness. The next 200 M was in a lap pool which was also easy peasy.
No bike photo for you all! I look like crap in the photo and I'll tell you why. I suck at biking!! I lost count of how many people passed me. I even saw a few kids pass me - ugh! So, basically I was dead tired and my thighs burned. Just from 6 miles.
The 2 mile run was pretty easy. The heat was the only thing that made it slightly difficult.
Final time: 55:17 - I wanted to finish around 1 hour so I was happy. I would love to do this again and actually train for it. I could definitely see myself getting into this type of thing!:)
Back in April my little sister called and asked me to do the Champaign Mini Triathlon with her. At first I wasn't completely on board, but then she told me each distance and I knew I could handle it. It was only a 400 M swim, 6 mile bike, and 2 mile run. I looked at it as a good way to stay in shape for the summer.
The funny thing about staying in shape means you have to actually work out. Which I haven't done, like, hardly at all. I wish I had a good excuse, but basically I have been LAZY!! The Olympics didn't even motivate me to get off my butt!:( So the morning of the tri was the first time I had swam since January, the first time I mounted a bike in over a year, and the first time I ran over 1 mile in 4 days.
No bike photo for you all! I look like crap in the photo and I'll tell you why. I suck at biking!! I lost count of how many people passed me. I even saw a few kids pass me - ugh! So, basically I was dead tired and my thighs burned. Just from 6 miles.
Final time: 55:17 - I wanted to finish around 1 hour so I was happy. I would love to do this again and actually train for it. I could definitely see myself getting into this type of thing!:)
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