First Oly

Well this weekend is my first Olympic Distance Tri, it is the Evergreen Lake Tri down in Normal, IL. I will be heading out on Friday night as I do not feel like getting up at the ass crack of dawn to drive down.

I will say I am a little nervous about the swim as I have never swam that far in a race before but that is the majority of the purpose of this race to prepare for the Half IM in October. Swimming last night at the local quarry helped as we were swimming six and eight hundred sets and the one thing I learned is that the longer I went the better I felt so feeling a little better about the whole thing. The one downside is that the water is quite warm so it will me a no wetsuit race, darn.

Let's see how it goes and hopefully it won't get rained out.

Schedule

Well the rest of the 08 schedule is set. I have finally registered for everything that I am planning on doing up to the IM Half in October.

I added the Evergreen Lake Olympic to the schedule to get in a longer swim race and added in the Chicago Half Marathon to get in an actual race in the Chicago heat, will be interesting to see how that time compares to the Indy Half this spring.

So now that everything is set time to start training even more in preperation for my first half.

Group Ride

So this weekend I decided to try a group ride that is organized by my local tri club. I have ridden with at most three other people so this was a new experince for me. The ride was labled a Intermediate ride with a distance of around 40 miles.

The ride started off extremely slow and spent the first part waiting a lot for the other groups to catch up, this got old real quick. So after about 15 miles of the stop and go myself and about four others just rode to the finish to get a nice continuous ride in. Let me tell you riding with a group is way different, even with the stop and go from the beggining we were still able to average a nice 18 mph while not feeling tired at all.

I was hesitant at first about the whole group ride thing but let me tell ya it was a blast, the ride was nice, the company was nice and it went a lot faster than expected.

Looking forward to the ride this Saturday.