Hotel Treadmill Circuit Workout

Today was supposed to be an easy run day so I decided to do one of my favorite treadmill workouts when I'm on the road and have limited access to exercise equipment, Treadmill circuits - run .5 miles stop do 25 push ups and 50 crunches repeat for 4-6 miles. I set the treadmill at 6.5 mph @ 2.0 inc, was going to stop after 5 miles but felt really good so I did one more round. Ended up at 6 miles with 300 push ups and 600 crunches during. Finished the workout with 30 minutes of upper body weight lifting plus lunges.

Last night I tried swimming for a bit in the hotel pool, talk about a wake up call. My biggest concern about making the jump to triathlon is the swimming, it's not that I can't swim, it's more that I don't swim. Oh I get in the pool and play around with the kids, but that usually consists of me throwing them up in the air and other horse play, no actual swimming is done. In fact I haven't actually swam laps since I was probably 9 or 10 years old when I took lessons and the occasional time in high school when swimming was part of the curriculum for P.E. class. I made it about 15 minutes for roughly 300-350 yards, I'm guessing on the distance since its not a standard lap pool. I was all over the place, trouble breathing, couldn't seem to coordinate my arms and my legs to move at the same time. I'm sure had anyone walked by at that time and say me they probably got a good laugh. After last night I may reconsider my approach to swimming, originally I was going to try and get in 2 swim workouts a week once I get my Y membership, but now I'm thinking 3-4 may be needed just to get my form down. I might even need to seek professional help from a coach, I will have to look into those options, at least in the beginning.

I have all the confidence in the world in my ability to complete the biking and running stages of a tri, I have the fitness level already to succeed in those two elements. Add in the swimming and it becomes a game changer, that is my weakness and therefore that is going to be my focus when I start officially training for Triathlons in January.

Until next time...Do today what others won't, so tomorrow you can do what others can't.