Flying Squirrel

So as I try to work a big boy job now and train for a triathlon, I use my time wisely at work. This week I've probably clocked 24 hours of work and only done 3 hours of actual work...the construction busniness is slow this week, and being an intern there isn't much to do either. So I've done a lot of researching on triathlon blogs, I try to pick up cool tips to use...I probably retain on 20 % of what I read....I'd say thats pretty dang good for an engineer. The other day I read and watched youtube video's on transitions...who knew you could do it so fast (Thats what she said)...sorry couldn't resist, but I found that I could make up a lot of time here. They have this one thing that's nicknamed the flying squirrel...it sounds and looks schweet. But I've also heard it can be deadly...well dangerous and you don't want to be that guy that holds everybody up. So tonight I decided I would practice this death defining stunt....so I took some tips and did the little rubber band thingy and set up my shoes already clipped in....well the good news is I didn't fall off my bike...I even got strapped in, the bad news is I think I could have done a my old style transition 3 times before getting situated. Oh well...that was part of my first regret in all my purchases I should have went ahead and bought tri shoes instead of mountain biking shoes...I was cheap though...maybe next year. I did attempt to try and get out of my shoes too while still clipped in....epic fail, got one foot out but then it shoe caught the pavement and I pretty much went down. Needless to say for the next 20 mins I just practiced getting in and out of my shoes....hey you got to start somewhere.

Tommorrow, hopefully Sam and I will ride the Panther Prowl course and practice some transitions again. I think I'll be fine on my T's but any second I can shave will be good. I'm super excited to see if I worked out all my kinks from the last race. The swim will be easy I plan going at a moderate hard pace, and hope to break 2:00 mins for the 150 yds...but we'll see. The bike is where I hope to improve the most placing in 134th place sucked at Foothills so I hope with my new riding position I'll be able to up my average speed, I'm not too worried about the run cause I think just changing my bike position will help a lot. I'm not to sure what my goals are yet...I would love to be sub 1 hour, so I would love to just do 1 hours and under 5 mins. I'm not sure how my run pace will differ from my first 5k. This is again a good learning tri for me. Between doing it this week and doing a demo 5k next week for a new timing system with Fleet feet I'll have a good idea what the differentiation is like. --- Well that --- was me taking a break, I just did some reasonable math and I doubt I'll get below 1 hour so lets officially shoot for 1:05 I guess... That like a 25.5 min 5k, hopefully 35 min bike 2 min swim and 3 mins in T's. If I don't get it I won't be upset cause I have no comparison. I'm just shooting too to place in my age group, I'm banking on not many people wanting to do the new race and me being one of the few my age lol. Well I'm headed to bed, this mornings early swim was hard to get up for so I want more sleep.