this morning was my first solo voyage on the bike and it felt like my first day at school - so many potential hazards and mistakes that i could make without even knowing!

firstly i had to get the wheels back on the bike. no worries. then i had to take off and clip in (i know this sounds basic - but i've only done it less than 10 times before and mostly with our friendly bike shop assistant waiting to catch me!). then i had to actually ride the thing - and the quads were burning in lap one! this is going to be very good for my hill running...

ended up doing 6 laps of centennial park. laps 3 & 5 were nominally harder efforts but i was really just wanting to get into the swing of it this morning - so all up just under 24k in just over an hour. it is definitely humbling just being constantly overtaken - but hey - i'm used to that from sweat training... as my blog title points out - i'm slow :) but at least i'm enthusiastic... hehe

swim squad tonight... but i dunno how much use my legs are going to be???

edit: went to squad despite some serious resistance and fatigue in the afternoon (caused by eating too much lunch i think...). it was a bit scary because the other 2 sessions that i will be going to are more stroke correction and are in the 25 m pool - this is a real squad session. anyway - it ended up being ok - and i was only probably 3rd slowest!

i can't quite remember but it went like this:
- warm up: 6 x 100 (50 free, 50 backstroke(!))
- 200's - supposed to be 3 lots - i did 2 and a half.
- 100's - up to 10 - think i did 5 or 6
- 200m cool down

all up looks like it was around 1800m?

they were all off certain times but i am yet to work out what that means... nothing really unless you are leading or at the front of the lane. which - i wasn't :)