\nI finally ran a triathlon!\n<\/p>\n
\nWell, let me qualify that.\n<\/p>\n
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\nI fell in love with the local RPM class<\/a> at the YMCA<\/a>. It’s a 50 minute class on a stationary bike. There are a number of songs that are played. Each song has a different activity: either warming up or down, fast cycling, hill climbing, or a series of high energy bursts. This workout has been the most intense workout that I have ever done. I feel like I reach 100% of my maximum.\n<\/p>\n \nSince I like it so much, I started taking two classes in a row on Mondays (the only day in the week where they do this). That was a tough step, but I got used to the workout. I then started swimming afterwards. Which is where I made a mistake.\n<\/p>\n \nSince I did a tough workout with my legs, I decided to only swim with my arms. It was hard, but I worked my way up to four laps between rest periods. Unfortunately, I got so used to this that swimming with the side-stroke while kicking with my legs seemed unnatural to me.\n<\/p>\n \nI tried jogging for a while, but my sacroiliac joint<\/a> started hurting me. When I tried “running” on the elliptical machine at the YMCA, I found that I could jog without pain. So I would jog for 60 minutes on the elliptical machine (and find out that I traveled 5 miles (at least according to the display)) before my RPM class.\n<\/p>\n \nI then made a leap in swimming. I would mix up my swim routine to be two laps of swimming with a kickboard. Then I would swim two laps with my version of the breast stroke<\/a>. Next I would swim two laps with a back stroke<\/a>. Finally, I would swim two laps with a front crawl<\/a>. The differences in the stokes allowed me to rest somewhat and combine the four strokes into one eight lap segment before I would rest a little bit. After doing four of these, I am only 3 more laps away from a mile (35 laps).\n<\/p>\n \nSo I have recently started to combine running, cycling, and swimming into one workout. Once I got used to that, I decided to take a day off of work and go for the big one. I ran 13.1 miles on the elliptical in three sessions (the stupid machine will only let you run for 60 minutes). Next I swam one mile. Then I took the two RPM classes back to back (since I can cycle at around 14.5 mph in the real world, I figure that I went 24 miles).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finally ran a triathlon! Well, let me qualify that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}