An Amazing Week

I spent the last week in Trinidad and had some amazing side training.  I sent a lot of time swimming in the ocean, walking hills and mountains and even got a beach run in as well. I ate well, and it was all homemade and amazing.

My official start date happens this Sunday.  It will be an amazing journey of 281 days of pain and suffering and a lot of days that I will just not want t do it.  I know this s going to be an amazing trek and will push my mind and body o the limit.

Week one will have about 6 or 7 miles on my feet, I am hoping for about 3 miles in the water and over 100 miles on the bike.  It will be a great kickstart to this adventure.  The following week will be the last week of hard charging biking and then it will stagger off to a routine of 2 days of running, 2 days of swimming ad 2 days of biking every week for the next 3 months.  After that it will be a mix up and stacking of running/swimming, biking/running and biking/swimming.  I will also be signing up for the dang race the first week of August to make his a little more challenging.

Good times to come.

Let's Start Tracking

A few neat things have happened.  The first is I bought some Aero Bars off Amazon.  I spent 20 bucks on them and just wanted to try something out and see where my balance is and to see if this is something I should even add to a road bike.

I have a Specialized Allez.  It is about 8 years old and has been a trusty bike since day one.  I have some custom wheels on hem and other than that there have been no upgrades.  So I figured that 20 bucks was not going to kill me.  

They were great on the first ride.  I had the best overall time on a 30 mile track that I have done a lot.  I beat my best time by almost 10 minutes and averaged over 17.5 mph for the first time ever.  I also thought I was going to fall off at least 5 times. 

I also picked up a Garmin Vivoactive 3.  I a still working through the widgets and little things on it, but overall the reviews that were on this smart watch tracker made the most sense.

I will be doing my first swim with it tomorrow.

I also have had an amazing BJJ week.  I have spent 8 hours on the mats Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with more to come over the next 6 days.  Then Ihead to Trinidad. 

When I return from Trinidad The real training starts.  This is going to happen.