Pacific Northwest Marathon Training: Week 6

Training is going well, I’m finding strength in most things I’m doing. Finding time to fit in runs is always a challenge, but I’m committed and I’m feeling confident in my goal as long as I stick with it, so it just meals a little bit of goal setting on a daily basis that’s all! I did a triathlon on the weekend and set a goal for myself.  My friends were looking at the start lists in their categories and thinking if they could beat them and get a podium… this got me thinking that I hadn’t even checked mine out!  So I got curious and started to check out the names on the list. Sure enough it was a big category and lots of girls who could potentially beat me.  This was a tough mindset to go into the race.  So I changed it to just have fun, go hard, but most importantly have fun.  I also decided that I was going to try and tack on my long run to the end of the race and do a double loop of the lake (an extra 10km) In the end, I exceeded my goal! I ended up with a great race and I had a ton of fun AND I got 4th overall of all the women in the race and 3rd in my category. I did a 27min 1.5km swim, a 1:17 40km bike and a 47minute 10km which is vert close to a personal best for me… and the best part was I felt GREAT! I also got to reach my goal of adding the extra loop after a little break.