This past Friday, I did my first real open water swim practice. I found a group that swims a 1.5 mile loop (sometimes 2 and 3 times) on Percy Priest Lake on Friday afternoons. We met at 6AM since it was the Holiday weekend and we didn’t wanna get hit by some drunken redneck boaters (although we were in a cove full of sailboats, so I’m not sure how many rednecks actually prefer sailboats over loud outboard Bayliners). Anyway, once again, up at 5am… this half ironman
training requires me to get up WAY to early every day of the week. It was about 60 degrees outside and the water was warm, so at 6AM there was about 3 feet of thick fog sitting on the water. As weird as it felt swimming through fog (as if some large crustacean creature from the Paleolithic era named Nessie was gonna pop up at an moment, maybe she’d give me a ride?), I think not being able to see how far I had to go actually helped me. I ended up comfortably swimming about 1 mile in 36 mins. Not fast, but all I want to do is get through the swim portion. I then ran about 6 miles at a 7:14 pace. Later this week, I’ll go the full 1.5 loop.Saturday’s ride (again, waking up at 5AM) got cut short to 40 miles because a few members needed to get back for the 4th Parade. Brett Kennedy and I had originally planned on 50ish, but 40 at about 19mph on the Trace was good enough. We quickly put on our running shoes after the ride and went for a 24 min run. My guess is that we covered about 3 miles. It was a good brick workout considering everything we had done previously this week (28 running, 140 bike, and 4.5 swim). We met back up at Jim’s, had some coffee, had some laughs, played with Happy, and was back home by 10am (and into a nice ice bath). That’s the best part of starting workouts at 6AM.
Remainder of season includes:
- Fall Creek Falls Olympic Tri
- Nationals – Olympic Tri
- Hood to Coast
- August Half Iron
- Jack & Back
- Huntsville Marathon
- Other random events that get thrown in
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