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Should I do this tri + race combo?
I have a bunch of races that I could do coming up soon. They'd all be for fun, since it's starting to warm up here.
I have a half this Saturday and that's my only race for March.
Then April 14th, I have a cross country race, a bit of singletrack and mostly jeep trails, so nothing too technical. I could do either the 25K or the 10K.
There's a spring tri on April 28th that is very small (limited to 300) and with a 300m pool swim, 14 mile bike ride, 3 mile run. This would be my first triathlon ever.
Then I'm doing a 10K May 12th and I hope to break 60 minutes on it (I've been running the 10K portions of my last few halves in under 65, so I'm really close.) This is the race I'm technically training for right now.
After the 10K, I'm switching to training for a sprint tri in either August or September.
Husband thinks that doing the 25K and the tri in two weeks is just asking a lot of my body. He thinks I should skip the tri and just go for the 25K (and he's done the 25K three times and does tris every summer, so he's got some experience.)
I just don't want to pass up this tri because I want some sort of baseline to base my summer tri training off of, if that makes sense. But I also don't want to pass up this opportunity to do this 25K. We're flying my MIL out to watch the girls so it's going to be one of the few chances this year Josh and I have to race together (he's doing the 50K.) I could do the 10K, but that means a lot of waiting for DH while he's racing and if I did the 25K, we'd finish about the same time, which would be cool.
Anyway, advice is needed, especially from the triathletes because I have no idea what I'm getting myself in to with a tri.
Re: Should I do this tri + race combo?
I'm no triathlete, but I vote for the 10k in April. I know you've been considering this 25k for a long time, but that seems very taxing on your body compared to the 10k, which is basically what you'd be doing anyway on the weekend to train for May 10k. I know that kinda sucks, considering the long wait and not taking full advantage of the parental help. =
By the way, didn't YOU claim you weren't going to try to be a triathlete, not 3 months ago!? I wish I could find that post. Liar, liar, pants on fire....
j+k+m+e | running with needles
i think you are overthinking. but, from experience, i find it best to focus on what you want to be good at - if you want to have a good tri, then you need to focus on biking and bricks. if you want to have a good 25K, then you need to focus on running. This is not to say that you cannot to both of them - but you need to delegate which one is your priority. if you choose the tri, then yeah perhaps a 25K race 2 weeks before is not the best idea. but if you choose the 25K and just want to do the tri for the experience, that would be fine.
j+k+m+e | running with needles