Week -33: Gains

(5 - 11 March)

This was a week of major improvements:

- I ran 5km continuously, and may have figured out how to do it again
- We videotaped both of our swimming, and used that to figure out improvments.  I think major gains were made - this morning in the pool, both Caroline and I took between 10 and 20 seconds off of our 100m time.  Relatively, that's huge.
- We also videotaped our running.  This definitely helped me (see above) and gave Caroline some areas to work on as well.
- Finally, we took the tri bikes out for their first real spin around Richmond:

We didn't think we'd be able to do this for a while yet, since it never stops raining in this city.  But when we looked out the window Saturday afternoon, it was sunny! And dry!

At about km 2.5 on the ride it started raining again. But we were already out, so had the incentive to keep going and finish the thing off.   Both of us made huge improvements in terms of getting comfortable on these bikes.  It's a very different feeling from a normal road bike - personally, it feels like most of my weight is almost in front of the front wheel hub.  But we got used to it by the end.

(T-33 weeks and counting until New Zealand)

	Matt	Caroline
Swim
Sessions	2	1
Distance (m)	1500	1000
Bike
Distance (km)	42	41
Elevation (m)	134	134
Run
Sessions	3	3
Distance (km)	8	19
Backcountry
Distance (km)	0	0
Elevation (m)	0	0