Time to start focusing on the swim and bike portions of the triathlon as I start training for the New York City Triathlon, coming up late July.
Took a couple of big steps today. First, took my bike into Metro Bikes to get a tune up. In addition to basic free tune up I get from purchasing my bike there, I’m also getting the more extensive ‘drivetrain’ tune up. I want them to do a good cleaning of my chain and a good thorough check of everything else. I’m also getting the handlebars retaped. One of these days, it will warm up and I’ll start getting some rides in. I think we change the clocks next weekend, which means we’ll start getting daylight till 7pm – can’t wait.
I also went to the gym tonight and went in the pool for the first time in about 8 months. I am a really bad swimmer, and I’m essentially starting from the very beginning. Did about 18 pool lengths in a variety of bad forms, but trying to work on breathing, which is my big weak spot.
Will be running in the Coogan’s 5k race tomorrow morning. Forecast is for rain, sleet or snow, so we’ll see what happens. This is a very fast 5k course due to the hills, especially the downhill in the last half mile. I’ve set PR’s the last 2 times running the course. I was hoping for dry conditions so that I can attempt to finish in 25 minutes. My PR is about 26 minutes. I just hope the weather is good enough that they don’t turn it into a fun run. I want to use this to bring down my NYRR corral pace time, which is currently 8:14.
Wow, that session in the pool really wiped me out. Need to get to bed!
