Second week of Training

Dec 30, 2010 by Mikhail Gavryuchkov

Thank you Chad, Angela and Internet Polyglot for your generous donations!

The second week of training is in the progress. My body seems to cope well to the new regimen of 6 days per week of training. Two major challenges so far:

Biking. I've never rode a road bike before in my life, only recreational bikes once in a while. So what did I do when I climbed the bike last Saturday and

clipped the shoes to the pedals? Right, I fell off the bike. Hurts! Second time - fell off again. It took me a long time to eventually starting getting used to it.

Two main challenges - first is to clip the second shoe uphill and second simply stop and unclip the shoe and put the foot on the ground.

Another one is my shoulder - I pulled it about 4 months ago playing volleyball and it still hurts once in a while. I feel it when I swim but not too hurtful.

Fortunately it seems that shoulder muscles started building up because of swimming and there is less load to the ligaments.

Tomorrow is a bike ride. It's going to rain :)

........... This was written last Friday :) Today is already Tuesday, next week. The bike ride was absolutely fantastic! The new bike is great - I feel as if it becomes one with me. I could even ALMOST keep up with seasoned cyclists.

Mikhail Gavryuchkov's Fundraising Page

Nov 23, 2010

Racing to Save Lives

Welcome to my Team In Training home page.

My name is Mikhail Gavryuchkov, I'm training to participate in Vineman Full Ironman Triathlon as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I am completing this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

Thank you everyone who helped me to run 2009 Nike Women Marathon! The whole training process and the event itself were a truly life-changing experience.

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission.

I hope you will visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!