Briggs Novice Triathlon

[kate_r]

Well the race went well but I was frustrated by the lack of results - the overall time on the day they showed was 53 minutes 32s by the information I could find out on the day but my watch recorded it as about 1hr 4 minutes, so I assume the smaller figure related to transitions? The end results show 9:28 for the swim(I had 7 min 49s as the time in

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[triman]

Congrats, thats a decent effort, you must be pleased.

Lots of women have trouble with cycling when they start as they were usually not encouraged to do it when young. Running is hard enough to get good at, getting fast is another thing entirely.

What time are you aiming for, for the 10k?

[kate_r]

I'm really pleased - I expected to DFL and am a little shocked that I didn't. The cycling I don't have much of a problem with I just need to get more hours in the saddle, it's not helped by the poor old hybrid commuting bike that I'm using at the moment.

The run is a better pace than I have bee able to do in training so again I'm pleased with that/

I'd love to sub 90 minutes for the 10k which will be a struggle for me as I've never run that far before so just doing 90 constant will be hard enough. Whatever happens I'm determined to take it steady and keep on moving - I think a tortoise approach rather than a hare is called for.

My efforts seem to pale into comparison compared to yours! I read about your recent long ride and it sounded great!

[triman]

>>My efforts seem to pale into comparison compared to yours!

But we all had to start somewhere. Cycling was always my strength, even at 12 I was cycling from Hemel to Tring, 12-miles each way to go to the Museum, and cycling into London to visit my grandad, much to my parents anger.. who often had to come get me in the car. I just took 35-years out...

On running though I was where you were.... my first 10k was 80-mins. Just take it easy, don't push yourself too much, try to get one run in at least 5-miles 2-weeks before, then after that just do short runs to keep things ticking over. If you can find a fun 2-mile loop, you might want to try 3x-laps and if you can't run the 3rd and have to stop, at worst you'll only be a mile out.

How long before the run ?

[kate_r]

How long ... oh about 10 days! I'm following the beginner to 10k programme that the race has listed on their website. I figured that using this as the run element on top of the beginnertriathlete.com sprint training schedule for beginner to sprint would let me both train for the tri as well as the 10k. I'm doing about 5/6 runs a week and 2 swims, 2 bikes and 2 strength sessions with core after every 'dry' session. The longest I've ran so far was 5.6k but it was a steady pace and I felt I could carry on. Again, all I want to do is finish! Then I'm going to stick with the sprint schedule until the next race at the start of June and spend between then and October focussing on increasing my core strength, general fitness and my running. Sound like a reasonable plan?

[dalg]

Well done. I'm struggling to find my mojo as fara as running goes, and have paid for and not run in the Edinburgh 10 at the weekend, so I need to get my head round it again.

You're in the zone, go for it !

[kate_r]

Set some goals - on a weekly basis if needs be!