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Wildcat Triathlon

  First leg - 1/4 swim 
  Originally uploaded by bsabet.

This morning I did the Wildcat Triathlon.

I haven't done one of these for 10 years. It felt great to train and then participate in this event.

The swim was the hardest for me. I stayed back so I wouldn't be kicked in the nose but made up some time on the bike and run.

Finished in 1hr 22minutes. 1/4 mile swim, 10 mile bike, 3 mile run.

I gotta do another one.

Progress

Well since my earlier post about a month ago, I've been running and biking on a regular basis. At least 4 days a week. Sometimes more.

I still have a long way to go but I'm making some progress. I don't know if it's the new toys/gear, the accountability of this blog or just the feeling like I'm getting older and I gotta do something.

This evening I went out and ran 4 miles (nike+ chart below).

It was a slow pace but it felt so good to work up a sweat.

An evening run

After the kids went to bed tonight, I grabbed the nano/nike+ and did a short run.

Not going to set any records but it did feel nice to do something to burn off the big honking chocolate chip cookie i ate after lunch today.

My first Nike+ run

I'm 10lbs overweight. Even worse my workout routine is random at best. Some weeks are better than others. But over the past month I've been pretty bad. It started with a torn muscle and then migrated to plain old laziness

With inspiration from my in-shape wife, I'm signed up for a mini-triathlon this August (my partners at Spark are very supportive). More on the August race in another post.

So this weekend I ran both days. Yesterday I ran 2.5miles in the rain. Today I did 2 miles mid day on a hilly run (yeah, excuses are starting already). We now have the Nike+ so I hope keeping track of my data will keep me going on a consistent basis.

Here's my graph from today.

The iPod/Nike+ software and website are fantastic. There are plenty of eye candy charts and you can do tons of stuff like share data, compete, set personal goals, keep track of your playlists for a given run and download new workout playlists of course. I have nike sneakers but you can use the iPod Nano/Nike+ kit with any sneakers and one of these. Update: Lauren has been trying them with non-nike sneakers but they dont' seem to calibrate properly.