My first official long run on Saturday !! 🙂 It was only 1:30 hours long, but that was enough for me at first. Completely relaxed, I floated through the forest on my melodic sounds, only occasionally interrupted by runners who ran past me, which, however, left me completely cold this time ... man I was proud of myself.
The first swimming units with Thomas, our grinder (hopefully he won't read that), are done and the first 1000 meter showed me that I can swim quite nicely again, but only up to a maximum of 200m. Everything that comes after that costs me a lot of concentration, as the technique deteriorates dramatically after this distance. For this reason, you should only start with short distances when swimming starts again. You swim these short stretches until you have perfected your technique, and then slowly build up the length of the stretches.
In general, a little core stabilization training (5-10min) before swimming (at home, approx. 1-2 hours before) is highly recommended. It increases the tension immensely when swimming afterwards, and you get a better position in the water.
Raynard Tissink
Here's a very inspirational article by Raynard Tissink from South Africa, the 5th of this year's race in Hawaii. He talks about training and the requirements of the various competition distances in triathlon. As always with such articles, skip the places where he has to advertise his sponsor 😉
see you!
krelli