I run. A lot. You probably already know that. But today I did something I've never done before: I did a mini triathlon.
Okay, okay - I may have cheated a little bit. I started with a swim. It wasn't super long, but at least I swam all of it (last time I had a flutter board and did nothing but kicking: that's not exactly swimming).
Then I did a run. Unlike a real triathlon: it wasn't 42.2km; it wasn't 21.1km; it wasn't 10.5km; it wasn't even 5km. It was 1 mile. Also known as 1.61km - a little bit shorter than even the shortest beginner triathlon. But still. I ran.
I ended on the bike. That's the only part of my mini-triathlon where I worked hard. I managed to cover 31km in just 25minutes. Without moving a single centimetre. That's right - I was at the gym.
I cheated a lot on my triathlon. Cheat #1 happened on the amount of work I did on each leg. I did way less swimming, biking, and running than a real triathlon. Cheat #2 happened on the order of the events. It should be swim, bike, run and NOT swim, run, bike. Cheat #3 happened on the transitions. Normally, the hardest part of a triathlon are the transitions (at least that's what I've been told): from the pool to the bike and from the bike to the run. Legs are tired and making the switch from one type of exercise to another is really, really tough. I had hours between each part.
If you ask me, none of that matters because for the first time ever, I swam, biked, and ran all in one day. In my books, that's a triathlon!
~mom
You are right, "cheter"!
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