Swimming

So Sunday I dragged myself out to go swimming I went alone but was at De Anza Cove there's 3 lifeguards on duty so it was safe. I only swam 1/2 mile it was hot and it's really boring swimming alone.

Tonight I swam about 1/2 mile at Glorietta Bay I forgot my wetsuit so when they annouced the swim I was thinkning we'll see how far I get. I bike about 6 miles as well tonight it was a good brick. Tomorrow's plans include the track workout tomorrow night, but I might go swimming too.

Saturday Bike Ride

So today I went out with Ofelia & Lori for what was scheduled to be a 25 mile bike ride around south bay. We started at eastlake High and went down eastlake parkway to birch. We then rode down the 125. You can go north and south on your bike on the 125 between birch and the 905. The downhills were fast I got up to 40.8 mph but the hills were long and hard of course the early morning heat only made it harder. We got down to the 905 turned around and went back north. We winded our way through eastlake but the heat was getting to unbearble so we turned back and just about 18 miles. It was a good hard ride and I forgot how hilly that area is. Tomorrow I'm hoping to get a swim in somewhere we'll see.

Wednesday-Thursday

Oh the heat this week has been crazy Tuesday became my rest day since it was just too hot!

Wednesday I hit the beach with my sister for 4 hours of swiming in and out of the waves the water was cold and felt soo good.

Thursday tonight was the weekly Thursday Beginner swim, it's been the same group all season and every week we get new people to our group. Tonight I was aiming for a mile but was satitfied with my 3/4. Doing nothing all day in heat was just too draining and I was ok with that. My plan if to do some yoga and cardio at home tomorrow, and then I have bowling. Saturday i've got a 25 mile bike ride lined up early in the morning and Sunday will be swimming and maybe a bike.

Monday's Swim

So I stayed in the whole day did nothing but relax until tonight's swim. I joined the pulse group 2 weeks ago at Glorietta and it's a good group so I went back there this week so get my swim in. It's so much closer than La Jolla and after the long ride yesterday I wasn't sure how i'd feel. So the memo I didn't get was there was a brick option for tonight, but since I biked yesterday I didn't need another ride so I opted for a longer swim. We went out to the white bouy which turned out to be 1/2 mile round trip the SEALS were out there training and had orange bouys attached to them I learned that when I accidently swam on one oops! The swim tonight felt good and I'm glad that I feel as good as I do after the ride yesterday. Tomorrow's plan is the track workout down in Chula.

Saturday & Sunday

Saturday was a rest day figured I needed one this week.

Sunday so today was the big ride the longest hardest ride I've done yet. So Lori and Darrin planned a 35-40 mile bike ride and then a BBQ afterwards. We headed out from carmel valley down black mt rd down into Rancho Santa Fe and up to Olivenhiem over to Enicintas, down towards Cardiff and the over to the Coast we went over via Manchester and took the 101 up to Leucadia for some gelatto. We headed back down thw coast taking the side streets and made our way to Carmel Valley Rd and took that until we got on the 56 bike path. We took the path back to Black Mountain Rd and then back along side streets to Lori's house. It was hard for me as prior to this the longest ride I did was about 25 miles. It was very hilly and I haven't had too much hill practice Darren was nice and hung back every now and then making sure I was still behind the group. It was a hard ride but it was fun in a way. Nowing I can do further distances is comforting it's just going to be speeding those distances up in the coming months and adding more hills in to my bike workouts. Next weekend I'm biking with Ofeila and we'll see how long we go and hopefully it'll give me more building blocks for my long tern goals.

Wednesday-Friday

Wednesday My Knee was a bit sore so I skipped the am swim and just biked Wed at Fiesta island I did about 12 miles, the winds were high and were throwing off my gps tracking.

Thursday, with my knee still sore I skipped the am bike and just took it easy with some light swimming and snorkling at La Jolla Shores.

Friday todays workout out before the rain started was a 1 mile swim at La Jolla Cove. There were some high rollers it made it easier to get out but made it some work to get back in. Tomorrow is up in te air as I have morning plans I might make it my rest day as rain is expected, more than today I think and we are also doing 35-40 miles on Sunday my longest ride so far...

Monday's swim and Tuesday's Track Workout

So Monday was supossed to be a rest day but I went for just over a 1/2 mile ocean swim at La Jolla Shores. The water was very choppy and make it a hard swim. Coming in was a bit hard and it seemed like I was not not making much progress. Finally I was able to catch some bigger swells and sure enough I could see that sand on the floor again. However with sand comes sharks. Now what i'd like to know if why cant I see the cute tiny belongs in your 80's wall aquriam sharks. I always I mean always see the giant 5 footers swimming in a pack below me. Yes I know they can't eat me but my mind still jumps to oh shit its sharks. Maybe i just need to go snorkling for a few hours and get over the leopard sharks.

Tuesday so tonight I headed down to Chula Vista to check out the weekly track workout put on by Pulse Endurance. I haven't ran since grade school so I needed to start and needed help with technique. We did some warm ups that took me back to my high school track days, then the goal was do start with a mile and see how fast you could do it. I currently walk jog so I figured start slow and eventually I will improve. I walked/jogged the first 3 laps. I then decided to take off my shoes and do my last lap on the grass and was able to jog the entire 1/4 lap non stop. I did 2 more laps, a speed walk and then a jog/walk lap. Our cool down was more laps across the grass we worked out for about an hour and fifteen minutes. It was good one of the other ladies had her daughter there so her and I kept going back in forth running, cartwheels and such. She made a comment that she was faster then me after I out ran her one length. I told her she should be faster but 20 odd years ago when I was her age I was alot faster than I am now. I had fun and plan to add this in to my routine since I need to get my running in and since a lot of the other runners out there are doing mission bay in less than 2 months i've got nowhere else to go but up.

Midnight Madness and Todays training

So yesterday at the club race Ofelia brought up that she was going to Midnight Madness. I asked what it was she said it was a 20 mile fun bike ride. My intial plan was to volunteer and have fun. When I arrived last night they were full for volunteers so I was already there and decided why not ride. Linda was already there wity Bob so I thought why not we could all ride together. Linda and I ended up sticking together throughout the ride we biked 21.97 miles in just over 1 hour and 30 minutes. Had there not been 3000 other people we probably could have went faster than our avg 13 mph. The course was fun and slightly hilly the biggest hill was Juan St in old town which I was able to do non stop. It was a great time we did however encounter a bunch of punks cutting people off it was nice to see the police bust some of them but other than that it was fun and i'll probably do it again.

So later in the morning I went on my pre-planned swimming workout, I got home just after 3am and was planning on a 9am swim. Crazy yes but I figured get my swim in early rest the rest of the day. I ended up making the swim at 9:45 I did 3/4 of a mile at De Anza Cove. I did enjoy a great long nap today and plan to make an easy swim tomorrow night.

Today's Race

So this morning was a very fun club race put on by TCSD. I had a good time and did good. I'm still on the fence about the sdtc race in oct I want to do it but i'm torn do I do a 5th sprint or do I make the jump to the olympic. My current training program is for an olympic, I gues it's just self doubt and worring about a dnf. Oh well I'll need to sign up soon and will need to decide.

My Xterra Wetsuit

I LOVE IT!!! Such an awesome wetsuit I glide through the water and feel the aquaman it's wonderful. I do need to make a few minor tayloring adjustments but I am very satisfied with my sleveless Vortex. I'm taking Friday as a a rest day since I'm doing the TCSD Club race Saturday. A few other thursday nighters will be racing some their first race others their second it should be a great day and I'm looking forward to it.

Braveheart Brick

So this morning my alarm goes off at 6:15am and I start thinking staying in bed would be soo nice but I gotta go. So after hearing my alarm for 10 minutes I pull myself outta my nice warm bed and get my things together grab my water bottles and head out to Mission Bay. We did a jog for a warm up and started our workout the goal was to hit a 90 cadance and then for 15 seconds push really hard go back to 90 and reapeat then we'd run off the bike do a lap and go back for more. It was a hard workout but it felt good at the end. I highly recommend it! Check it out

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It's been a busy week and it's only Wednesday!

So yesterday I got me new saddle and it's installed yea! Today I got one of the jerseys I bought online (ebay a great deal nwt) I also finally bought a new xterra wetsuit in the local san diego store. Also in prep for those colder nights I also bought a second jersey and also a light for my bike, now I can bike to the velodrome. I also hit Hi-techbikes.com (sd location) and bought some more Forza bars and 2 more c02 cartridges. They also were just listed as one of the top 10 places to get a bike fit by Triathlete Mag Sept 09 issue so I also scored a free Camelbak h20 bottle and camelbak elixir. I've got the nonthly time trial at Fiesta Island tonight and maybe a tiny jog after all I still need to work on that if I wanna take my training up a notch. I'm itching to go swimming eith my new suit but that'll have to wait till Thursday. I'm trying out the famous Braveheart Brick tomorrow morning as it's in the morning so I wont have to miss my swim at night.

Sunday

Today's workout a 500m swim at De Anza Cove followed by a 8.46 mile swim at Fiesta Island. I followed my workout immediatly with poweraide and when I got home I had a protein shake, i've got a great shake that uses 8oz milk, 2 ice cubes, 1 scoop of protein power 1 tablespoon peanut butter and a small banana and until I get that agave syrup hersheys dark chocoate syrup, it makes a 16oz smoothie thats yummy and very filling. I hit the store on my way home to get more banana's and also cantalope it was 3 melons for 0.99 I also got some cottage cheese as i like my cantalope with cottage cheese and black pepper. I was torn for dinner between steak and chicken, I went with carne asada and beans for tonights dinner i'm also making some homemade guac and also for the hubby maragritas, i've been good and to my own surprise didn't drink all week, so I do deserve one.. tomorrow's plans include a evening swim and maybe more biking or a jog. I'm still waiting for my training book from half.com it's been almost 2 weeks since I ordered it. Things also getting changed this week hopefully a new saddle, new pedals and I hoping to score a pair of shoes for a good price as well.

Ahhh Thursday

So Carmen and I hit Ob for a few hours of boogie boarding and also tanning. We spent a good few hours there and caught a few waves but nothing too exciting. Just after 5 I headed down the road over to De Anza Cove in Mission Bay park for the Thursday night swim with tcsd. I did just shy of 800m but without my wetsuit... So why without a wetsuit you're wondering. Earlier Lisa sent me a text about the Full Moon swim at La Jolla the "plan" was to do de anza hit High dive and then do La Jolla. After the swim we hit High Dive as it's our spot after our thursday workout, it was a it busy so getting the check was hard and a few of us left later than we wanted to. We got to La Jolla just before 9 saw the group heading out, they were out of glowsticks so we decided to go in a bit and then figured we'd catch the exit. As Lisa and I walked back we saw Angie and Karen. Angie found a lightstick so the 4 of us hit the water no wetsuit and played around for a while. We had fun and had a good time. Tomorrow I need to bike an hour and need to start jogging/running we'll see how that plays out.

Workouts this week

So far this week I've been pretty active trying to rotate my workouts

Monday 6.2 miles on the bike in just under 31 minutes it was a hilly course on a computrainer

Tuesday was a rest day I hit the Velodrome with Carmen and John

Wednesday 1/2 mile ocean swim at La Jolla Cove and a 9.82 mile bike around fiesta island

Thursday's plan a swim at De Anza Cove and possibly some boogie boarding with Carmen

Friday I have bowling butI might bike

Saturday is a rest day

Sunday Swimming with more biking

How I got started

My journey into triathlon started a few months back in February my friend Carmen thought I would enjoy them and urged me to sign up with our local club. I joined the Triathlon Club of San Diego in February and have been working out in their group training sessions since. My very first triathlon was The Spring Sprint May 3rd, 2009, I had fun and since then i've been hooked. I've made a wonderful group of friends that I train with on a weekly basis and it's kept me coming back for more. My second race was just a few weeks ago at Solana Beach July 26th. My next Sprint race in The Mission Bay Triathlon Oct 4th. As I've continued my training I've thought more and more about trying a 70.3 race. With a little over 6 months and some modifications in my training I'm looking forward to a huge but intimadating feat. In the coming months with books and online training programs and also my friends who are racing as well I look forward to working towards one of many hard goals i've chosen to take on.