March’s miles…

Well if you saw that last post you saw what my Q1 and March Mileage and Times were but here are some high and low lights:

• First Triathlon ever; Desert Tri was completed, a disastrous swim was redeemed somewhat on the bike and run, lots learned and I finished with a smile!
• Swimming just keeps getting longer…now at 1500 yards without “floaty bits” even did a speed session last week, form and time, form and time…
• I managed my longest swim ever; 3250 yards, holy crap that’s just under 1000 yards to the Ironman swim distance
• Sold my wetsuit…some much needed funds for the new one
• Got a grab bag of fast bits for my TT bike, I still need to dial in the aero bars and wheels but I am getting there, sorry crappy iPhone picture

• Rode my longest ride ever too; 102 miles in a day…ain’t no doubt that’s a long way!
• Upped my running and even managed a quick 8 miles in sub 60 minutes
• Slid in a couple of trail runs, the last one was in a downpour!
• The 102 mile ride took a good couple of days to recover from…guess my fitness ain’t quite there yet!
• Failed on the core front, which has pushed me back on the weights front, see below
• Took ownership of my first pair of reading glasses!
• Missed my blogging goal of 13 posts a month or 39 a quarter and prolly did not leave half as many comments as I should have on yours!

Overall I am pleased with the month. I figured out that I overcooked the first week with nearly 200 miles in a week and over 16 hours of training. I backed off and found a better balance with less quantity of cycling but making sure that the quality was there. For now there seems to be a sweet spot at around the 13-14 hours per week, right now I am feeling less beaten up and able to bounce back reasonably well. With the increase in running, some of which was forced onto me due to crappy weather, my overall mileage was down compared to January and February but in terms of time I am actually a couple of hours up.

The focus for April is to try and maintain the balance I have and add in the missed core work along with some strength work, I picked up a Triathete specific weights book and I hope that I can create some simple sets that will help me get Harder Better Faster Stronger! Beyond that I need to get a replacement wetsuit and hope to get some open water time this month. So April is here, let’s roll!

7 weeks till race day!