Only 13 days till the New York City Triathlon! Nervous about it in generally, and most specifically, nervous about the swim. Since the pool I go to has been under renovation for the last 2 weeks, its been 4 weeks since I have last gone swimming. Pool supposed to be open again as of today, so I should still be able to get 4 swims in between now and race day.
Thanks to all the bike riding I’ve done lately, the tri distance of 24.4 miles does not scare me at all anymore. Yesterday was my longest bike ride ever, at 36.5 miles! See the main course here. At the end I was really beat and didn’t feel like biking through the streets of Queens and Brooklyn all the way back to the city. So, I hopped on the A train, took it to Fulton St, and biked another 2.5 miles from downtown Manhattan back to my apartment.
It was a great day for bike riding, although a little windy. Headed over the Manhattan Bridge, through downtown Brooklyn and then down 3rd Ave to the 68th St pier. Took in the sights for a moment, and then followed the path along the Belt Parkway around to Coney Island. Picked up a corn dog, and then followed the bike path all the way around to Flatbush Ave and took a right turn to Rockaway. Brief stop at Riis Park to admire the beach, and then heading back to Queens by the long, long, long way of Cross Bay Blvd. All in all, a great ride, and I’m hardly sore today, which is great news. Took a few pictures, which you can check out on my DailyMile profile.
Was quite active over the last week. Had good longish runs (6 mile range) on Thursday and Saturday, and rode my bike to and from softball on Wednesday.
On tap for this week is the gym and pool today, running tomorrow, softball (bike ride to/from again?) Wednesday and then time to start my taper into the triathlon…
One last note, so very thankful for the low humidity July. Really making for nice training weather at a time of the year where that is usually not the case!
