Mountain Bikes, Bass Guitar, and other stuff I like

Set out to do my first Olympic distance triathlon back in June. Well, the training plan began in June but I had the idea over the winter, having complete a few Sprint distance races.  When I first started swimming, I could not go 100 yards without stopping. This race promised a daunting 1500 yard swim! Earlier this year in February I joined the Cherokee Aquatic Center, which turned out to be a huge benefit not only for convenience but for motivation.  It's nice to know I can get a swim in any time of year although I wish they had the full 50 yard lanes year around, except 25 yard lanes during school season.  Swim training consisted of the Zero to 1 Mile program which slowly builds the swimmer up to a mile swim over 6 weeks.  After that I began working on speed in the water with the CSS program, namely the Goldilocks set, where I swim as fast as I can at threshold for 200 yards, 300 yards, and 400 yards with 20 second breaks. Swimming was my main focus in the training plan because