Triathlon Photo Friday: Training Peaks Training Plans
Today’s Triathlon Photo Friday photo is a little different. Here’s the background: In the next few days, I’ll begin my next triathlon training journey: I’m beginning my 16-week training plan to get ready for my first international (Olympic) distance triathlon. The race is the Inside Out Sports White Lake International Triathlon and it will be held on September 8, 2012 in White Lake, NC. The international...
Triathlon Photo Friday: Running Watch
Today’s Triathlon Photo Friday photo is my Timex Ironman running watch. If you’re planning to train for or compete in any endurance sports (running, triathlon, swimming, etc.), a watch is a must-have item. Even though I track a lot of my workouts via an app on my smartphone, my watch is my standby for all my workouts. I acquired my IM watch last year at the conclusion of the triathlon season. It replaced an earlier...
Triathlon Photo Friday: RoadID Bracelet
When training for triathlon, it is not uncommon to go on long runs or bike rides (lasting a couple of hours or more sometimes!). Those rides or runs will likely lead you to encounters with traffic. Most of the time, drivers are very courteous when they encounter runners and bikers and give us plenty of room. However, it only takes one time for a driver that isn’t paying attention or gets a little too close to you and you...
Triathlon Photo Friday: Cycling Shoes
Today’s Triathlon Photo Friday photo is the pair of cycling shoes I recently acquired. When I started out in triathlon last year, I was very unfamiliar with the world of cycling. Sure, I’d ridden a bicycle since I was a kid, but cycling is completely different. Its like comparing high school to graduate school– many similar characteristics, but worlds apart! So, as a newbie to triathlon and cycling in 2011, I...
Triathlon Photo Friday: Road Bike
Today’s triathlon photo Friday post is my road bike (see last week’s triathlon photo friday post here). The right kind of bike can make all the difference when competing in triathlon and I was very fortunate to have acquired this Specialized bike last August. After riding a heavy hybrid road bike last year (my first season competing in triathlon), a good friend of mine dipped into his storehouse of cycling frames,...
Triathlon Photo Friday: Lap Pool
Today, I’m starting a new feature on this blog. I’m calling it “Triathlon Photo Friday.” In triathlon training, it seems as though you are always using some new piece of equipment or a new facility or a new running course. So, I’d like to show off some of the places I train and the equipment I use. And that is triathlon photo friday in a nutshell. Today’s photo is the view of the lap pool I swim...
