Dual Sport Success

Dock Transition Area

A quick report today, my last day of "dual sport week". I am very jazzed by my progress. Yesterday I did the complete bike portion of the triathlon followed by the complete run/walk. Today I did the complete swim and complete bike. Both days were tiring but went better than I expected and I'm a day ahead of my original training plan.

Path up from Dock to Lawn

Bike/walk combination - My times were comparable to the time it has been taking me to do each segment individually. The transition time was only about a minute. It was really hard to get my legs to start the walk. Joe says that's because biking and walking use your leg muscles very differently. The good news is that once I settled into the walk it felt good. I even tried doing stretches of elongating my stride to pick up a little speed.

Swim/bike combination - Again my times were comparable to the individual sport workouts. I mostly use my upper body swimming so the start of the bike seems relatively easy. My transition time is down to about 5 minutes and I'm satisfied with that.

Bottom line is my performance so far is exceeding my expectations! I started out thinking that the whole event would take me about an hour and a half. Now I'm beginning to think that it will be less than that. Next week is tri-sport week so that will let me know more clearly how I'm doing overall. Stay tuned!