5/31

School has been out for a week and I have done a good job of working out. I have joined a ladies triathlon club, which has been pretty awesome. My goal is to train for the summer and compete in the WinKC Ladies Triathlon. It is a sprint triathlon, so the distances are shorter. It is a 500m swim, 10 mile bike, and a 5k run. I have never been a real swimmer, always avoiding getting my face in the water, so never properly doing the strokes. I ride my bike all the time. I have not run since high school. The cool thing about the club is that there are local ladies that do triathlons putting together clinics to help those of us who need extra practice and training in a particular area. This was my first week of training. Monday was a day off, but I rode for about an hour. Tuesday was a run day, so I ran and rode. Wednesday was a ride day. Thursday was a swim day. Friday was a day off, so the boys and I went to the pool to play (no laps for me). Saturday was a run day, and we did a planned group bike ride. Sunday was a ride day. I did pretty well with the schedule, and wound up doing a little more because I did not want to give up my bike rides. Today's ride was with the group from the bike shop. It was more of a ride than I was wanting, but I am glad that I did the ride. We rode to McCune, round trip it was about 53 miles. If it had not been 95 degrees and windy, it would not have been to bad. By the end I was toast. I think that this week will be more difficult, because I will be feeling fatigue from the previous week.

I have two reasons for doing this. One is the swim, I wanted to really learn how to swim. To be efficient and smooth in the water with different strokes. I also wanted to increase my activity to aide in weight loss.