A year and a week ago today, I had prepared to compete in my first triathlon ever. As I waited for my turn to enter the pool, my HR registered 131bpm on the girl's watch in front of me. We giggled as her watch picked up the reading from my HR monitor (she wasn't wearing her strap). My first pool swim was 300m. I had practiced so hard to be able to complete the swim in a respectable time. Halfway through the swim, I hit a wall...I was panicky and exhausted. I made it through the swim and completed my first triathlon in the Novice category taking first place. To say that I was shocked would be an understatement.
Fast forward a year later...I will be doing the same triathlon in one week. This morning I entered the pool at the YMCA and swam 2200 yards (1.25 miles) without skipping a beat. My stroke was solid and I didn't even feel out of breath. Following the swim, rather than taking a nap, I went cycling. Quite an amazing transformation from last year to this year. I couldn't have been prouder.
Today I also utilized two new products that I found to be really good products. Infinit is a nutritional aid for endurance sports. Very good product that I tried for the first time. You must drink water with it and you do approximately a bottle an hour. You build your own formula from flavor and strength of flavor down to the amount of protein and caffeine you want in your particular formula. The second product used today for the first time was the SportCount Lap Counter. It looks very much the fad ring-watches from the 80's. It has a small strap similar to a watch strap that allows for perfect fit and simply has one button on it that you push to count laps. Having done 88 lengths of the pool today, it couldn't have served me any better.
Tomorrow is my first double brick which will be a bike-run bike-run brick. One week until triathlon season kicks off for me. I will race Age Group this year. I am anxious but excited to see how I do competing against other women who have raced either one year like me or many, many years. The countdown begins...
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