Last Thursday I really jumped in to this Triathlon thing with both feet. I signed up for the 2012 Racine WI Half Iron Man. A 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike and a half marathon. There is no going back now. Especially since there is no refund on the registration.

I told my trainer what I did and she was super excited and immediately had me on a treadmill with a incline of 15 as my first workout. Needless to say, I am seriously increasing the amount of training I am doing. I doubled my bike workouts to 2 hours and felt great afterwards. I swam the 1.2 miles in the pool without much trouble. The run however, will take some time to get up to a half marathon. I am still running in my Vibram Five Fingers and am only doing about 6 miles a week. I have to ramp that up. Then, I have to put everything together so I can actually do all 3 in the same day. I still have a lot of progress to make before I will be ready for this event. Getting my nutrition inline might end up being the hardest part since I love sugar so much. But I am really excited to do this event and am totally committed to putting the effort in so I finish and finish strong. I would be lying if I didn’t say I want to do a full Iron Man the next year.
I have already made plans for renting a wet suit and doing my first open water (cold) swim in early October. It seems weird to be making plans to go swimming outdoors the same weekend Hockey season starts.