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Week 1 - 7 My First Triathlon Training

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WEEK 1 MONDAY   I did some runnings on the weekend. So this Monday I took a rest day TUESDAY My energy started to kick in or possibly I was super excited with this new journey a head. I did a body pump class at my Virgin Gym in the  morning before started my clinic. It was 45 mins intense fast paced full body weight class.  After work, I had my quick small dinner and started my first swimming! It was tough in the beginning. As I said, I am weak on my front crawl. My first 20m was horrible. I was panic and suddenly out of breath. I switched to breaststroke for a bit and tried again. Surprisingly, I managed to control my anxiety and and started to slowly back to front crawl again. I managed to do total 1080m total swim including 9x40m with kick board in between. WEDNESDAY The weather is nice. So, I decided to cycle to work for 8.3km to my Barbican clinic and 9.3km return home. Total journey 1 hr and 1 mins. It's tough to get faster than that when you cycle in ce

I am finally in...!!! My First Triathlon...!!!

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I am not an endurance athlete nor used to any other endurance activities. I am just an ordinary mom of two teenagers working full time as an Orthodontic Therapist in Orthodontic clinics in London. I was not very active since having children. Having 2 girls with just 18 months apart kept me busy already. Since back to work full time, my life became more and more hectic. I had to see many patients in a day. The stress level is high and this when I decided I had to change my lifestyle to keep me going. I started to look around for gym membership and fell in love with indoor cycling class. The dynamic of the class boosting my energy to keep going and gain more confidence to do something more. I was then started to run in March 2017. Not a speedy one though but I am happy to say that I am a runner now. I used to hate running but then fell in love so quick with it. I started with just C25K then had my first 10k less than 2  months after that and my 1st Half Marathon less than a yea