This month’s Triathlete magazine came in today. My mom gave me a one year subscription as a Christmas gift and I have been looking forward to this issue for a few weeks now since finishing off the December issue. This issue came with a special edition The Road to Kona / The Road to Clearwater. The special edition highlighted all of the qualifying Ironman and Ironman 70.3 distance events for the Ironman world championships in Kona and the Foster Grant Ironman 70.3 world championships in Clearwater. It was a lot of fun to read through the various event overviews with my wife and day-dream about traveling, vacationing, and participating in these events. We’ll see how I do with my goal this year of finishing the 70.3, but reading about these events makes me want to swing for the fences and try to qualify. It will be a few years before I will be ready to announce that goal.
There were a few articles scattered in the special edition. One was an exercise set designed to improve swim and be performed 30 minutes per week. Just looking at the core strength involved in the set showed me that I will have to build up for a while before I could effectively use the set. That just made me more motivated to start building up to it. (I can hear Duce: “abs, abs, abs… then some more abs.”)
I decided to get on the bike even though it was getting late. I didn't start until 10:45pm, but the 30 minutes flew by while I cranked in my 20 mph gearing. The rhythm was consistent, but the cadence was just a little shy of my ideal pace. The position on the bike felt really good and the legs responded very well after the day of rest yesterday. I was very happy to stay so comfortable in the 20's.
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