June 27: Swim - 50m pool, 4:10-4:50pm

Since I couldn't swim during the weekend, so I swam today instead. Today is Monday so the pool is not so crowded. One of the lane were booked, which meant that I had one less slow lane, so I swam in the mid-speed lane today. The next one to the mid-speed lane is the fast lane and those people beat my speed so easily even though I'm swimming the fastest I could. I'm guessing that they are swimming in a double-speed compared to mine.

When I swim the best I could in the mid-speed lane, after 200m I lose strength in my arms and this goes the same with my legs, not getting enough oxygen from the blood vessels. I'm guessing I'll have to continue practicing in this area.

Afterwards, I moved to the slow lane and swam slowly, but the previous tiredness remained and it was difficult to breathe from 200-300m point. My lack of stamina is a big question!

For the actual race, I'll probably start slow and from the mid-point I can evaluate and adjust the speed.

Total 1.2km, 200m x 6

After arriving at home, I cycled 15 minutes using the roller. I used slightly heavier setting. After 15 minutes, the pulse was 132 and I am drenched with sweat. The room temperature is 28 C degrees and I have a fan in front of me whilst I'm cycling.

June 22: Swim - 50m pool, 6:10-6:50pm

It's been a while since I went to the pool in Tokyo Gym, so I decided to try hard today. Today is very hot summer day and even though I went there earlier time, the pool was packed! I got stuck every 100m so it's not good for long distance swim. When I ended up getting stuck again, I changed to breastroke and swam with break in between. I swam 1.2km in total (200m x 6)

I can feel my body strength is weakening, so it's hard to swim 100m within 2 minutes and swim for 200m. I would like to try to extend this to 400m, so I decided to do some muscle training at home.

Since I felt my stamina is decreasing when I cycled last time, so I am going to start bike training at home as well. I trained for 10 minutes with extra pressure. Even though it was only 10 minutes, I was catching my breath and sweated a lot. Next time, I'll monitor my heart beat.

June 19: Bike - 6.3km hill course, 4:40-4:53pm

I finally took my bike and cycled after having a month break. The course is same as usual, the hill course. However I didn't have much time so only cycled one lap.

As I thought, I felt my stamina is gone due to a long break, but the data is not so bad. I can tell that the number of heart beat is higher though. It's only two months to go now so I'm going to focus on maintaining the body strength.


Result: 6.3km, 13'55'' Max: 61.8km/h Ave: 27.2km/h
Heart beat: average 144
First half until after the uphill: 8'30'', max 159
Latter half: 5'25'' max 149

Not training for a while and going uphill is pretty tough!

June 19: Swim - 20m pool

I couldn't go to 50m pool last week during the weekdays since I had a 3-day-business trip.
I can feel the body weakening when I don't exercise. So during the weekend I went to the pool and focused on the form and the speed. I was able to swim 200m in less than 4 minutes, but the question is how long I can swim keeping this pace. Therefore my target for this month will be to swim 400m within 8 minutes.

200m x 3 and 500m x 1, which sums up to 1.1km.

June 7

I'm now registered to the Triathlon!

Today I've received a contact from my friend Erik via Skype and found out that I'm registered to Sterkepeer Triathlon. The website is http://www.sterkepeertriathlon.be and in deelnemers, you can find both myself and my son's name there.

It seems like it's only us who are taking part from Japan.

Now I'll need to focus on my knees. I'll have just less than 2 month to go through swimming and cycling, and for running, I'll use stairs to build muscles, squats to strengthen my knees, and see how it goes on the day.

Also, I've swam 1.5km in 50m pool on June 2nd, 1.2km in 20m pool on June 5th.