Ran 3 miles on the road today in town. Not easy but not as bad as the trails. I do feel like I am treading water on the running and worrying about putting it all together in 6 weeks. How do I successfully run (successful=not stopping) factoring in the trails, hills and 21.7 mile bike ride? I have to trust the process. Afterall I made it this far.
On the way home I had James stop the car so I coud run up the very steep hill to our house. I am thinking maybe frequent exercises like that will help. Practice talking myself along the hills.
Tomorrow it's the lake (woohoo!!!!) and the trails.
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Look up Hal Higdon.. he trains people for marathons (when you can snatch these running shoes from my hand grasshopper, it will be time for you to go home...) According to Hal, and a few other sources, there is nothing wrong with running and walking. I think he actually recommends it for a tenth of each mile while you're starting out. Remember, you're building up... you do NOT want to overwork yourself and get injured... think of how much of a downer THAT would be for you.
When is the triathalon? How long is it? is it flat or hilly terrain?
Biggest issue I have right now is finding time to run. But the second biggest is varying my course. I've been doing too much hills and its clobbering me. I need to focus on flats, and do hills once a week I think. Put that in as my cross training portion.
yeah I know. It's my own personal challenge to cover the distance WITHOUT walking. I want that more than not finishing last.
The tri is Sept 9. .5 mi swim, 21.7 mi bike, and 3 mi run. over multiple terrain, the run is primarily on a trail with lots of hills and ends with 1/4 mile around the track. The bike is generally flat but with a lot of gradual inclines and declines with one big uphill in the beginning. The swim is in that lake full of cute ducks and beautiful scenery.
We did some interval training and the coaches could not stress more the importance of quality (intervals) running rather than quantity. I am moving towards doing intervals every other day and then the trail or a 3-4 mile flat run for time.
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