Training Tri-Fecta!!

My son has been going potty this week. Brenda has been working hard to recognize the signs of "potty time" and putting him on the potty. Then late this week, he pulled my wife's shirt and said "I have to go potty Mommy!" Lo and behold, she took him to the potty and hooray, he did it without any prompting or cajoling.

My son's expression said it all, he had a huge feeling of accomplishment. He did it all by himself!

I'm sure that people over the age of 80 have that same feeling by the way!

Why on earth am I talking about this? Well, today I did three, yes count em', three separate workouts. There is an expression in football training "two a day", which signifies two workouts a day. I did three! Yippeee, I did it all by myself!

Tri training needs to be intense, you're doing three distinctly different things that can absolutely drain every ounce of energy from you. You don't have the luxury of doing the swim one day and the bike and run tomorrow. So for me, doing all three in one day is a huge step.

Now I didn't do them back to back. I saddled up and did a forty mile ride in the morning which approximately was an hour and half. Since I train in South Jersey and stay at my in-laws shore house, I had to help my wife pack her car with clothes and the kids. I kissed them goodbye and went to my parents, who are also in the same area, and promptly jumped into their canal, which in South NJ is called a "lagoon". I swam there for about one hour and racked up a mile or so of long laps. I ate at my mom's (thanks again!) left and drove two hours in beach traffic back to our house.

Then I played with the kids, went to a pizza dinner, helped them to tub and bed. I then went to the running track in Rutherford and pounded out a 7 mile run. Approximate rest time in between was five hours.

All in all, there was some space between each workout. Ideally I want to start shrinking that rest time to something closer to what I would experience in an event. I have in my estimation approximately eight more Tri-fecta workouts before September.

Oh and I'm sunburned to all heck. My back is warmer than 3 mile island on it's anniversary.