Last night I was feeling pretty ambitious and pumped up after the Carolina Hurricanes finally beat the Washington Capitals, even if it did get to an overtime it shouldnt have, so I headed off to the gym and decided to try the distances for the Riverside Golf & Athletic Sprint Triathlon that I’m signed up for at the end of April.  My gym doesnt have a pool, a problem im still trying to sort out for my swim training, so i skipped that portion.

I did the 20K, 12.8 miles, on the bike in just over 30 minutes and did the 5k run, 3.2 miles, in just over 31 minutes.  So the total time for both was about 62 minutes total.  The time was slower than when i do both seperately but I expected that.  I think thats a pretty good showing for my first attempt at doing both back to back.  Im sure swimming will put a dent into both when added in as the third component but it shoudnt push me to far off finishing in a time i can be proud of.  I figure that the swim will wind me some but the fact that i did the 20K on the stationary bike which is one constant tempo and cadence makes up for it somewhat.  A stationary bike is a constant level of riding whereas outdoors I’ll have the benefit of going up and down hills which will allow some recovery on the downslope, the same with the run.

So all in all im happy with where I am now and I have a base to compare against when I do my last trial run the week before the race.

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