Triathlon Training: July 3 - July 9, 2023

The Appleman Sprint Triathlon was about three weeks from this weekend. The Cranberry Olympic Triathlon was approximately two months away and the Pilgrimman Half Ironman was about two and a half months away. My goal was to keep building up my experience, especially with the swim.

I spent some time on Tuesday, July 4th swimming close to the shore to work on reducing my head movement. I received some pointers. One pointer was to use a pull buoy in the pool. I mimicked it by hanging my legs on the strap for my swim buoy. I felt the rotation of my body more, since I disengaged my legs.

On Wednesday, July 5th, I rode 16 miles at an average of 16 mph with some good hills.

On Thursday, July 6th, I ran the Charles River along Boston and Cambridge. It was a nice steady pace run.

On Saturday, July 8th, I was back at the pond. We swam 1500 yards in about 30 minutes.

A few of us followed that with a 21 mile bike ride. A couple of them are much older and inspire me to keep active and fit as long as I can. One mentioned that being retired allows time to get much fitter on the bike.

I ran 3 miles off the bike. I did not plan where to go and bushwacked through a small section of woods which slowed me down. It was a good practice triathlon. However, we did not practice fast transitions.

I swam longer on Sunday July 9th to get in as much swimming as I could. There started to be signed of bacteria in the water as temperatures climbed due to the summer heat.

Lastly, I ran 3 miles on Sunday. I worked on some hills close to get my heart rate up. It was a good weekend of training.