All I do now are sprint distances. I swim and cycle at olympic distances but I don't want to up the run and go for a full on olympic triathlon (emphasis on the try!!) until I can get under an hour. About 7 more minutes of improvement and I'll go for the bigger runs.
So far I've only done one triathlon, it was a sprint, finished at 1 hour 7 minutes and change... I'd been "training" for one for several months before I did it. There is another race local to me in Ocala in August sometime I'll be doing and that will be my push to under an hour and then I'll up distance to a "big kid" tri!
Work is very aggrivating with the hours required of me, but for about 7 months a year it's Monday-Thursday and 3 day weekends. That gives me plenty of time to train harder, but during the weeks I'm either too tired or short on time to get any sort of real distances/times in. It'll get better someday. I've got a plan to quit my job and go work at the Home Depot mixing paint buckets part time to pursue my TRYathlete ambitions!
and I honestly don't have the attention span to do an Ironman! Athough I'm jealous of anyone who can even attempt one, much less finish it!
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