I joined MAC and did my first workout. A relaxed 350 yds in the pool in under 11 minutes and 25 minutes on the stationary recumbent cycle. Seemed easy but I am not much of a swimmer. I could shoot for the Lone Star Sprint Tri at the end of March, but that is a bit too soon. For one, daughter is right, I don't have a bike yet. For two, it is open water and I can't swim straight.
I'll step up my swim to 20 minutes on Thursday. I'll run the Park to Park on Saturday, but I doubt I'll run before then. I almost went to join Steeeve and friends at Terry Hershey after my swim and cycle, but I really need to give it a rest. Then again it would have been a tri had I gone. In a few weeks I hope to be out at TH again.
A recommended training plan would be most appreciated Coach Steeeve. What I've found is the Original 13 Week Sprint Training Plan. I'll follow that, unless you guide otherwise, although perhaps with longer runs, starting after I get a week or two of swims in. Oh yeah, I have to start thinking about a bike. Those stationary ones don't seem to go anywhere.
What is it with Clear Lake anyways? Are we all deranged? Is it just our women? Or are our men just good at bringing the worst out of our women? Don't worry. I'm totally normal. Really. Have no fear. I just want to talk.
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I was talking to my boss yesterday (he lives in another state; I never see him face-to-face). All the talk was about our buddy from NASA.
I asked him if he happened to know a little trivia on the ex-wife of another NASA employee, and if he happened to recall a certain woman who killed her dentist husband.
I was the one with all the good scoop yesterday.
Every couple years someone in Clear Lake goes crazy. I blame the proximity to Baytown and Texas City! :)
Joe, the training schedule you found looks great. You can tailor it if you like to reflect the fact that you're a strong runner and of course to build in races and such.
Sarah and I built a very custom plan for her as her needs were unique (half marathon ready and skilled cyclist/swimmer but needing a very steep rampup, plus a fair number of scheduling constraints). Never-the-less we were able to take a standard half ironman schedule from the net and customize it.
If you're interested in joining in Thursday there are a couple of short-cut options. You can do "hill-less hills" by doing the warmup and cooldown but no hills for a little under 5 miles. Or you can do "just hills" by meeting us at the parking lot at Hwy 6 around 7:20 and thus skipping the warmup and cooldown. Both are fairly common practices for us.
MAC rocks. I think the swimming facilities are particularly excellent. And, of course, the price is nice for EM folks.
Steeeve
LOL! I know right....must be something in the water....
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