Monday, July 21, 2008

The B-Fit B-Day Challenge

The folks at RaceAthlete.com came up with this little challenge earlier this year, just for the crazy people who do triathlons. What better way to celebrate your birthday than by doing a bunch of training? The principle is pretty simple:
Take your age and:
1) Swim the number of miles in the first number
2) Run the number of miles in the second number
3) Bike the number of miles in the combined number

So, for a person like me, celebrating their 35th birthday (hey! I'm actually the age I've been racing at!), would swim 3 miles, run 5, and bike 35. I'm not one who would ever be considered a slacker, or shy from a challenge, BUT, I did race yesterday and I don't have free pool time. So instead, I'm doing the metric version. (I'm also Canadian, and we do metric, eh.) So the goal for the day is 3000m of swimming, 5k run, and a 35 km bike ride. It's not required that the events are done consecutively, or in normal race order, as long as they're all completed in a 24 hour period.

At this point in the day, I am done two events. I got my swim in first thing (totalling 3600m, bonuc points), then ran 3.1 miles on the treadmill when I got home. I'll knock out a quick hour or so on the trainer when I get home, which should get me my 35km. Then it's pizza and cake, because that's what birthdays are really about.

Swim: w/u - 200m each free, non-free, pull
500 as 400 paddle w/pull, 100 ez non-free, 30"
400 ez pull, 30"
300 free, HIM pace, 30"
200 ez non-free, 30"
100 sprint (1:36), 2'
500 ez pull, 30"
400 as 300 paddle w/pull, 100 ez non-free, 30"
300 free, HIM pace, 30"
200 as 100 ez non-free, 100 sprint (1:47), 30"
100 ez non-free
Total: 3600m

Run: 3.1 miles @ 7.5 mph

Bike: ~35km, zone 1-3

1 comment:

Mark said...

Happy Birthday!