Boot Camp # 1

Successfully passed the Boot Camp. Two days - Saturday and Sunday, 7 hours of training each day. In general - 1 hour swimming, 1 hour biking, 1 hour running - then repeat. With some variations like on the second day we had 2 hours of biking (and then some bike spin for an hour or so) and only 1 hour of swimming. Also instead of 2 hours of running on a trail we had track training for an hour each day - it was like run two laps (i.e. 2x400 meters) then do core exercises (pushups, squats, lunges, crunches, burpies (oh, yes, those are my favorite killers!!!)).

So, all in all I survived 14 hours of training in two days. And not too tired today (today is Monday). We (my girlfriend and I) even went to theater yesterday and I fell asleep only 5 minutes before the end!! :P

One of the problems though was that the body stops liking the food that you eat during the continuous training and starts produce lots of acid. I was using tums (anti-acid tablets) and they were pretty helpful but still - after 5 hours you can't look at those energy bars or gu anymore.

Anyway - it was a great, super weekend! It gave me a lot of confidence that I will be able to do the physical activity for 16 hours during the IronMan event - of course with all those 5.5 months left until the event.

This week is recovery week - the trainings are not as strenuous as the last week's. Though next Sunday - a 60 miles bike ride. Strangely, I kinda look forward to it. Only one concern though - is my butt already trained enough to endure sitting for 4 hours on this narrow bike seat and absorb all those road bumps? We'll see.

Another big event will be in the beginning of April - it will be half Iron Man!!

Stay tuned!