Hello people who read this blog, long time no see.
I've started training for a triathlon that'll be in Taidong (台東) on October 2nd. I'm gonna do the half marathon since I don't think my swimming is very strong right now. SO, the distances are 750m swimming, then bike 20km (12.4 miles), and then run 5km (3.1 miles).
Unfortunately there's not really going to be anything to look at as I bike and run in Taidong, because as you can see below it's terribly ugly and boring.
So on Monday (7/18) I ran for half an hour without much complaint. Unfortunately when I got back I found I had a rather sizable blister on the ball of my left foot...so off to a good start!
Yeah. That is my foot and its blister. You're welcome.
Then today, Tuesday (7/19) I swam 800m. I know that's not much, but my orginal plan was to get on a bike machine for 20min and then to swim a short swim work-out. Sadly I had forgotten covered shoes and so I couldn't go to the part of the gym with the biking machines. That, plus the pool was packed with elderly and children apparently all getting swim lessons in how to splash around in water. Which left everyone else to do the breaststroke as slowly as humanly possible in front of my while I tried to swim. I think I need to just stick to the nearly always empty pool at Zhengda (my university).
Right, so here's my schedule for Week 1 & 2, I'm trying to build up a base level the first two weeks, so they'll be the same:
Monday: Run 30min
Tuesday: Bike 20min; swim 800m
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: Bike 30min; swim 800m (pending change, I'll have to see how going from biking to swimming will feel)
Friday: Run 20min
Saturday: Off
Sunday: Swim 1000m
So that's my base level work-out. I kind of modeled it off a routine I found on
Beginner Triathlete. Basically you're supposed to have two rest days (or just one, if you work out 6 days a week), and increase the length by 10% each week with one week at the end of the month as a rest week where you scale stuff back. The routine suggested I make a work-out like this:
1 Short swim
1 Short run
1 Short bike
1 Long swim
1 Long run
1 Long bike
How you space it out is up to your schedule, but you should keep the long work-outs near to rest days and so on. Anyway, I'll try to keep this up to date so that I keep myself on schedule and motivated. I'm thinking maybe I'll take pictures of places I run to, and hopefully once I've bought a bike, places that I bike to. If anyone has done triathlon before and has some advice I'm open to it. Wish me luck!
