This is Tom and sister Janet before the start of last year's Olympic distance Turtle Crawl Triathlon at Jekyll Island, Georgia. We will be needing the long sleeve wetsuits at Cohasset.
I checked the water temp at Melton Hill Lake this morning before swimming. It was 58 degrees. I put on two caps and pulled them down over my eyebrows. That made a difference as far as warding off yesterday's forehead cold ache. I was also faster today, with fewer stops. Cold water is taking me a little bit of time for acclimatizing. However, I absolutely love my new long sleeved wetsuit. My feet, hands, and face get cold, but the rest of me is very comfortable. My confidence is way up, though, knowing now that the water has been at 58 degrees, while Cohasset water is expected to be around 62!
Next week may be about right for starting the once-a-week-for-4-weeks-Power Burst swim practices for anybody not named Meghan or Zip! (Utterly un-necessary for a Robinson swimmer.) I discussed it in an earlier posting, see April 19.
I'll post a checklist in the next few days.
You may want to try a few bricks in the next few weeks. Important to get legs accustomed to changing from bike muscles to run muscles. Also, start simulating your transitions: T-1 and T-2. Find a comfortable routine and stick with it, laying out your gear and repeating the sequence of transition steps each time. They should become almost second nature and be very familiar to you on race day.
OK, for those team members that may be trying to stay under the radar, Kathy and I have begun doing a little internet snooping. We found, for example, that Meghan has worked a duathlon into her training this spring. On April 19, she went run (3-mi), bike (11-mi), run (2-mi) at 25:10, 44:30, 15:20 with T-1 at 1:01 and T-2 at 0:56. Good job Meghan!!!
Looking for more training reports and images to post. Go team!!!
That's about it for this posting. Now get out there and train!
--Tom
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