Triathlon Training

IronMay starts in, well, May. Two years ago I completed it, but it was a huge amount of effort, and I was in pain for days afterwards. This year, the plan is to get in a bit of practise before May and get myself in some sort of shape.  

C and I went for a walk on Tuesday, and I've been for walkies with the beloved today again.  It feels like there's a blister forming on the sole of my foot, and it's been just over a mile, and that's combined distances!  

The pace is, shall we say, glacial. However, when I was last doing this challenge my pace did pick up over the month. I even managed to run the last hundred metres! Today's walk was 0.69 miles in 18 minutes.  That's about 2.3 mile per hour.  It will be interesting to compare it to my pace in May.

Iron May: Top of the Leaderboard

I was the top of the Iron May Leaderboard for a whole 14 minutes.  Then my crazy friend came and pushed me off the top slot!

The relative rankings appear to be worked on how much of each stage of the triathlon a person has completed.  One mile of swimming counts for far more than one of walking/running, which weights heavier than cycling.  The swimmer of the mile would have completed 42% of the swim,  the marathon-er, almost 4% and the cyclist would be pootling along  at less than 1%.

So far, I've managed 8 miles of cycling, and 1 of walking.  After posting this I'm going to get in another mile of walking.

Iron May, or A Slow Triathlon

One of my friends has roped me into taking part in a 'slow triathlon'.  Normally a triathlon is completed with a 17 hour window.  With the slow version you still swim 2.4 miles, cycle 112 miles and walk/run a marathon, but instead this being confined to 17 hours, you have the whole of May to do this.

Today, being the first of May, saw the start of the slow triathlon.  At 6am I was up on my exercise bike for 17 minutes.  The Iron May Challenge rates this as a 4 and a 1/4 mile cycle ride.  Having been ill recently, I know that the chances of this being accurate are small.  My pace will be picking up as my health improves, and as the month goes on. Tonight I shall walk my first daily 1 mile walk.

My goal is complete the challenge by breaking down the cycling and walking into daily chunks.  The swimming will happen in bigger chunks.