Training progress

It's been a mixed week or so for training. A business trip to Prague last week broke into my training and I only managed to get a few swims and one weights session in while I was away. I then threw myself into training over the weekend and did a short fast run on Friday, a long cycle and weights on Saturday and a run and swim on Sunday. The run on Sunday was supposed to be 10 miles but I was not really on it, and only managed to do 6.5, and had to walk some of that. Probably over did after a slow week. However, on Monday (I was off work) I did put in two hours gardening (counted it as weights work, especially as I dug the veg patch over) and did a good swim session. I then did a good 5 mile run tonight with the jogscotland group, and followed this with one of my best swim sessions ever. I have found a new training program for beginner triathletes and intend to follow this and it includes several work sessions in the pool so I tried this for the first time tonight and it went really well. I managed to only work on my crawl and between float work (on my legs) and flipper work (focuses on the hand technique) as well as several straight forward swim lengths I managed to do 40 lengths. The first time I have ever managed this and it really felt good. My breathing and arm movements seem to be coming together, so while I am still not sure I will be good enough to use this in the race I certainly feel like I have made a lot of progress in this area. I can certainly manage a pool length without drowning now.

Next post I should have the promo stuff in place and I'll post more info about the charity.