Mean Swim Coach goes National

I don't want to disappoint my reader, although my sister pointed out today that a blog with one reader is really more correctly called an e-mail.... I'm going to ignore her though and proceed.

Today's planned workout was an hour in the gym with weights and about an hour on the bike.   And today, I stayed with the plan. 

There really is not a lot to say about the weights.  I spent an hour lifting weights which I try to do twice a week.   Since my primary focus now is triathlon training, all of my weight days are full body workouts with fairly low volume.    Today I did 3 chest exercises, 3 back exercises, 3 leg exercises, 2 arm exercises and ab exercises.  3 sets of each.    I have been surprised that my upper body strength seems to be increasing.  I am guessing that this is due to the swimming.  I had the opposite occur when I was doing marathon training.

Likewise the bike today was mainly wanting to get in about an hour on the bike.  I stayed close to home, making loops through the neighborhood and finishing a total of a little more than 14 miles.  

The nice thing about the weekend all together is that i basically did everything that I will need to do on August 4, for the first time:  3 mile run yesterday morning in the park; 800m continuous swimming in free style yesterday morning; and 14 mile bike this afternoon.    Still need to work on putting them all together at once, but I know that I can do them all now. 

The other significant thing today is the my Mean Swim Coach (my daughter Virgina) has now gone national.   My buddy Andrew who plans to do the triathlon with me, may be consulting with her.  I found out today that my nephew Mitchell is also planning to do an Olympic triathlon soon in Texas and he plans on connecting with her to work on training.   ALSO, my reader, Dave Leonard is making noises like he may be in for a triathlon and she may be working with him in Indiana.    SO, it looks as though she will be working with people in at least 3 states.... so far.

If you have questions or comments, let me know!  I would love to hear some of your stories.    ALSO, if you have questions for my Mean Swim Coach, I will happily forward them on, as well. 

Have a great evening everyone!  

David