Swimmin, ridin and runnin

We have had fantastic weather in NY this past week which has been great for training. Especially since most of our training is outdoors. Temps in the fifties when we ran earlier this week and a beautiful day yesterday to ride across the George Washington Bridge for a ride up 9W in NJ.

Things are getting busy here in training land. This past week started our official swim training. Since I was busy on Tuesday night when the beginner/intermediate session is held, I went to the Monday night advanced session. While, I was pleasantly surprised at how good I felt and was not totally exhausted at the end of the hour, I also am not fast enough for the advanced session. The end of the night involved a half mile swim to be completed in 20 minutes. While I did not think that I would finish within that time frame, I did manage to complete about 10 laps out of the 16 within the 20 minutes. So my plan remains to attend the beginner/intermediate workouts.

Due to the unseasonably warm weather, the coaches have tried to take advantage of biking opportunities when they can. The Saturday session was changed to include an optional bike ride across the GW bridge into NJ up 9W. Its a very popular ride for cyclists in the area with many riders heading up to Nyack to stop and grab coffee and a muffin at the Runcible Spoon. I believe the trip over to Nyack is about a 4o mile round trip from the NJ side of the bridge, so I haven't made it there yet. Yesterday's ride was a 30 mile round trip for me from my apartment to our turnaround point on 9W and back. It was a good ride, although I definitely was feeling it later in the day. I'm sure later this year or Spring I'll be up for heading out to Nyack for a muffin. I've heard they are worth it.

Later this week will be more swimmin, bikin and runnin. For today I plan on dropping some LSD with some other training buddies. Now for those of you who may have spent your college years not inhaling and in other experimental pursuits, I'm referring to a long slow distance run and not other activities. In this case, a planned 10 mile run in Central Park with some other triathlon training buddies. Looks to be another great day for running outside, sunny with temperatures in the mid to upper forties.