Day 19

Good day today! First day of triathlon training.

Breakfast - Dorset cereal with yogurt, cranberry juice, small coffee with sugar
Lunch - cashew chicken wrap (Small tortilla, lettuce, chicken, cashews and peanut sauce), Vitamin Water and small bag of Sun Chips
Late Afternoon Snack (7:30) - 1/4 cup of mocha trail mix
Post Workout (8:30) - 1 cup OJ, 1/2 cup cottage cheese
Dinner (9:30) - Two Lean Pockets (500 calories total! And they have a surprising good carb:protein of 4:1!)

Workout - E1 bike ride - 8.1 miles most all in zone 1. Rode my 8 mi loop near the house and just geared it to keep it all in zone 1. A bit tricky with the hill by Shelton High on Meadow Street and then when you turn on to Soundview, but just try to pull off, do a flat and bring the heart rate down to z1 again.

Had my first wipe out on my bike. I was coming up the street across from our neighborhood and slowed down to wait to bolt across 108. Pulling up the hill I slowed down too much and then couldn't get my foot out of my pedal until I was already falling over. Caught myself without wiping out too bad, but it was really just a matter of time.

It was a good day today. Can't wait for tomorrow! I'm very stoked on the triathlon training. I'm starting a 40 week program working up to an Olympic tri, first 4-6 weeks are a workup to make sure I can maintain during training. I'm creating my own program based on the 52-week To Olympic Triathlon program from Gale Bernhart's Training Plans For Multi-Sport Athletes. This will be a structured program encorporating aerobic endurance workouts, anerobic endurance workouts and speed/form workouts and usually 1 brick per week, with strength training added at about week 10 or 12. I'll start talking about my training in more detail here as well. I'm really very excited!