My Trek to an Iron Man

Registered for the OUC Tri on September 12th.  Looks to be fun and it will be a new venue in down town Orlando.  Longer than I have done in the past:  1/4 miles swim; 11.7 mile bike ride; 3.7 mile run.  Gonna train like hell to do well on this one.

Did a quick 5 miles on the bike followed by 2 miles run on hills.  I figured out that train in cool weather but my tri’s are in hot weather.  By the time I hit the running part of the tri it is 90 degrees and it saps energy out of me.  My guess is in cold weather I get lots of O2 in the lungs and I don’t get worn out.  When I am running in the hot weather my lungs don’t get as much O2 in them so I run out of steam.  I need to figure out how to get more O2 in the lungs during the hot weather and learn how to keep my self cooler.  In cooler weather my endurance is great.  Warm weather…. not so much.