2 days in

Yesterday was day 1 of my formal triathlon training program; swim day. I'm doing all my swim training in the open water, so I biked to the beach. I'm trying hard to make the bike there very leisurely so that I can put maximum effort into the swim; the bike home can be as high-effort as I like. There are metal posts holding a swim barrier rope (I imagine they're simply cast into some chunks of concrete sitting on the bottom). Since they're about the only stable markers out in the water, and since they seem to be roughly 50 meters apart, I'm using them as the end points of each lap. My vivoactive 3 does not happily track such swimming (I didn't really expect it to); such is life. I was very, very pleased with my swim float/backpack combination. It didn't come with the chest strap it was meant to, but it still felt comfortable and secure on the bike, and I was hardly aware of its presence while towing it through the water. Tomorrow, I plan to put my watch in it during the swim. That will obviously add some time to both ends of the actual workout, but I think that it may track much more accurately because it will never be submerged. If nothing else, I may be able to use the data to get a more accurate measure of the distance between the two posts. But between biking there, the swim, biking home, biking to work, and biking home again, I burned over 4000 calories yesterday.

Today was the first run on the plan. 30 minutes, carrying my bike. A bit past halfway, the right strap on my backpack gave way; I tried to fix it while moving, but failed. I had to stop for about a minute in order to fix it. Also, there was some unpleasant rubbing on my left shoulder blade. The current method of mounting the bike on the frame is good, but still needs some improvement.

I took Ursus (my cat) to the vet today in my bike trailer. He was never going to be happy about it, but he also isn't happy about riding in a car. He meowed a bit, mostly when we started moving, but that contrasts well with the continuous meowing when we take an uber. He calmed down almost immediately upon arrival, and apparently purred for most of the appointment. So that's good.