Week 1 Completed!

Its been a rough first week of training, but I've finished it!

This week we had our first group trainings, which included a team swim, and an early morning team run in Prospect Park. I'm not attending our Tuesday runs for the first 2 weeks, as I'm finishing out my indoor soccer season, and as captain I feel obligated to be present. Its wild to think that in 20 weeks we'll be diving right into the Hudson. Yep, just like the picture below!

The swim lesson was great -- I realized I'd never had a formal swimming lesson, which for us included the strategy and logic behind how to stay buoyant and how to appropriately propel yourself while continuing to breathe, and not freak out.

The run was intense! We all met at Prospect Park at about 8:30am, where we got a pep talk and got to hear a mission statement-- someone's story about why they were doing the triathlon with Team In Training. We did three sets of 10 minutes runs (approximately 3 miles total), with 10 minute spurts of conditioning and calisthenics. Today, I'm sore, and I'm hurting, but I am oh so happy to actually feel my thighs burning and my abs tightening.

Its going to be a good second week, which will probably start with a afternoon run (its 50+ degrees in NYC today) or a bike ride tomorrow before our second Monday night swim practice.

Week 1 Total:
Monday: Swim (1 hr)
Tuesday: Soccer (1 hr)
Friday: Run (15 min)
Saturday: Run & Conditioning (1 hr)

For now, this is all you get, but stay tuned for more!