Swim

Got up nice and early and went to Heron lake for the first time to try my new wetsuit out. I met Jonathan there too.

The water wasn't as cold as I expected (except when sticking my face in for the first few times), but swimming front crawl was beyond me as I couldn't get a breath without drinking eau de lac.

Did two short laps, which are somewhere between 400-500M, with a 10 minute break. This at least proves I can swim the diatance using breaststroke, but the triathlon time is looking like at least 15 minutes. I might be able to swim a bit faster, but I know that would totally exhaust me for the rest of the race.

Run

Went to LA Fitness and did 30 minutes on the treadmill. Again, my legs were a little delicate after the sprint training on Tuesday, but I gradually increased the speed from 10 to 11.5 km/h and was OK.

Total distance a bit over 3.2 km.

Run

Went to Datchet Dashers straight from work. Haven't been since starting this job in January. It was speed training. We went to the Long Walk and ran intervals down to the traffic lights, resting 2 minutes, then back again. That's 6 sprints of approximately 800M each. I was quite pleased to be about the second or third fastest there - though it was a girl was easily the best :-)

My time was approximately 2 minutes 40.

Bike

SBR, four of us only again. I think I'm going to try and find a more popular group.

One rider was actually slower than me, so we spent quite a lot of time going slowly after hills to let him catch up, and so only did about a 28km/h average. This was OK for me for a change to not be constantly struggling.

Did about 58Km including the cycle home from Windsor.

Equipment

Finally bit the bullet and went and bought a wetsuit and tri-suit. I like the Sugoi stuff a lot so got their tri-suit. Went for Orca for no real reason on the wetsuit front. Tried various sizes from 7.5 right down to 5 which still just about fitted, so I got that one.

Only 3 weeks to go - I'm really not ready, but at least my equipment is :-)

Run

Went down to the gym at LA Fitness and had quite a restful 30 minutes on the treadmill running about 5km. Legs a bit sore from Tuesday's swim actually, hence the slow time.

Swim

Another swimming lesson in Windsor pool. I'm worried that doing the crawl will completely exhaust me. I should really have been doing more stamina swim training. I concentrated on breaststroke today and at the end of the lesson did 200M non stop. I could feel my arms getting really tired, but I know I can do 400M that way. I'm quiet slow, and I'm estimating a time of about 11 minutes for the swim now. Open water training starts soon, so I'm buying a wetsuit and will head down there to see how that feels.

Bike

SBR on a bright sunny morning.

After about 58km we got back to the shop and had averaged 32km/h which is faster than I've ever managed.

Total stats

dist 62.98k
time 1:59:20
av 31.67

Apart from a sprint over the last 2k I managed to keep up with the pack today.