Three things learned.

Three quick things I learned this week training with another triathlete.

1. Swimming in the ocean is hard and I pretty much suck at it.

2. Cycle with your heels and not your toes. Life-altering that one is, by the way.

3. My running form is not nearly as bad as I thought it was. Nay, I'll say it's mediocre to good.


Considering most of my fitness education was done by... me. I think I'm doing ok.

Still re-teaching myself how to swim with Total Immersion. I watch the DVD, I practice the next day. I rewatch the lesson, I practice the next day. Tedious? Totally. Necessary? Totally. I will conquer this swim thing. I'm set now, it's a done deal.

I need to reinforce the good habits over and over again to break the bad ones. And there are a lot of bad ones. Still working on breathing. For some reason I'm always in survival mode when my head is underwater and I can't breathe. I have to get over that "I'm going to drown" frightened feeling and relax.

I did some TI breathing excersises in the pool this morning and I can feel the difference in what I'm supposed to do.

I have five days off this week, I was hoping to relax and they're all about training...

Thursday: Swim early AM, run later.

Friday: Swim early AM, might do a really long bike run, or run, or both. Jason Mraz in CT at night, super excited.

Saturday: Bike, yoga, transtion practice with Kevan.

Sunday: Newport Naval Base Tri, Open water swim practice

Monday: Early AM swim, plus if I don't do the really long bike ride on Friday, it will dfenitely be today. Maybe a lap or two on the bike path.

Running in a tri this weekend on a team, looking forward to the experience. Open water swim with some of the YMCA tri participants and Luca later that day.

Running has felt great lately. Maybe it's the multisport training and the varying distances/paces I get to do in a week. But it's been nearly effortless, even on the long 7-8 mile stretches. I almost don't want to stop.

I haven't had much time for yoga lately and it's making me sad. But that's ok, I have all winter for yoga and swimming lessons. Been working on it at home, not as hot and brutal as Kelly's class, but that's ok.

Need more coffee and then off on the bike. Just 15 miles today then a recovery run. Which for me will be a regular run. Recovery runs are for wussies. ;)