Have started scaling back the bike rides and runs, in preparation for the New York City Triathlon, in 8 days! I will still be swiming hard over the next week, since my swimming is so bad. Swam twice this past week, but prior to that, it had been a month since I last swam. Yesterday morning swam about a half mile, and it really wiped me out. Made sure several of my laps were side stroke and back stroke, both of which I’ll be using a lot to get through the 1500 meters swim portion next Sunday. I’ll plan to swim twice again this week, perhaps Monday and Thursday.
This morning, did a 4 mile run down to East River Park and back. Will run once or twice again this week, but nothing more than 5 miles. Will probably get 1 easy bike ride in this week as well.
I’m curious to see what the swim is going to be like in the Hudson River. My assumption was that the river flowed from north to south, but that is not the case. It is a tidual estuary, which means that it flows both north and south, depending on the tide. From what I’ve read, the flow is south when between high and low tide, and the flow is north when between low and high tide. For next Sunday, low tide is 7am, and my start time will be close to 7:30. So, it will be starting to move to high tide, which I think means I’ll be swimming against a slight current. The way the staging works, the elites and most of the women start prior to 7am, and the men have the later start times, mostly after 7am.
Still really nervous about the swim, and how it might then negatively affect the rest of my race, but super excited as well.
