Triathlon Training

We've started to work on training for another triathlon this summer. It has been hard to get motivated because of the cold weather. We did a pretty good job of swimming weekly throughout the winter, but the running and biking have been sadly neglected. The cycling club in Polson has a time trial every other Friday night, and the first one was a few weeks ago. We didn't go at all last year, but thought we'd give it a try this year. Its a 12 mile loop ride with some hills. It has been really cold both times we've gone and we are seriously out of shape, but its still fun. We waned to do a sprint triathlon in Missoula this spring but registration filled up too fast, and now I'm glad we aren't doing it. We have 6 inches of snow today and who knows what the weather will be like in 2 weeks, the day of the triathlon. We definitely aren't ready yet. Now we are trying to find a training schedule that we can stick with throughout the rest of the spring and summer so that we will be ready to do another sprint triathlon in June and hopefully an Olympic length in September. We even bought wetsuits for swimming in the cold lakes! So, starting this week we are going to try to stick with this plan of swimming, biking, and running twice a week each. That will be difficult to fit into our "live at the school" schedule, but maybe it will help us get our work done faster so that we can get out of there.