BABY STEPS GET YOU BABY RESULTS!!

A few months ago, my running partner and I said, "let's try something harder, like a triathlon". I guess having done a few 1/2 marathons and endless training runs (at least 3X per week) we were in need of a change! Don't get me wrong, we are dedicated to our 6am workouts and beat ourselves up in a big way if we ever miss one (no matter how good our reasons), but it was beginning to be harder and harder to wake up, put on the Mizunos, and push through 10 laps on the same 1/2 mile track! So...a triathlon...why not?? :)
Someone with a brain would say to start easy by training for a Sprint triathlon about 10+ weeks out. Well, not us...we not only signed up for a Sprint tri which was only 3 weeks away, at the same time we paid for and committed ourselves to an Olympic triathlon in 12 weeks. The Sprint Triathlon was so much fun and we really did well considering it was our first race of this kind!


But an OLYMPIC TRIATHLON??
We are talking swimming a distance that I've never swam before...total...in an entire summer..., biking a distance that makes important parts of your body go completely numb, and being expected to run at the end using the muscles that are no longer functioning from the first two events. Being a terrible mix of stubborn, a show off, an optimist, and highly competitive, I thought "I can do this! I'm a tough chick!" But even with this confidence, there was still a small part of me laid staring at the ceiling at night thinking what in the WORLD did I get myself into?? Then all my fears were confirmed when I saw this training schedule...

This is where we started last week in order to be "ready" for August 29th..although I don't think anything will make me ready! On mornings like today when I'm feeling whiney, gripey, complainey, and just downright MAD that I even have to wake up to do this, I think maybe we should have done a later race, trained longer, thought harder about it....
BUT then I remember what my wise cousin Tommy G yelled once..."BABY STEPS GET YOU BABY RESULTS"...so here we go!!!
XOXO