A math tutorial

For the record, math has never been my strong suit. It's likely mostly a mental block, which triathlon is teaching me is the primary block for so many things we think we "can't" do. Still, my brother and I have always been much more verbally inclined, which is also probably why people stay far away when we get together.

And so that serves as a premise to this: I was wrong about my first brick workout.

See, I thought that I would need to do three loops of the Buffalo Triathlon Club bike course to roughly equal the distance I would be doing in my Keuka Lake Triathlon.

But as Mark from the club pointed out to me on a Sunday ride, I was wrong.

The Keuka Lake sprint distance on the bike is 22 kilometers, which equals about 13.6 miles. At my first brick workout, I completed about 12.5 miles, then ran three miles.

Basically, I did two-third of my sprint distance triathlon.

While the brick wasn't easy, it didn't kill me either. Granted, I didn't swim 750 meters before hand, but the bike-run didn't leave me longing for a pint of ice cream, a Law and Order marathon and the fetal position.

I really can do this thing after all.

While I take some time this Monday morning to study my metric conversions, check out this video of a Merman swimming competition. (Think Mermaid only with guys.) If only I could use a fin like this in competition -- the open water swim would certainly be  more interesting.