Triathlon training

I have entered a triathlon on 5th June so I plan to put weekly updates of my training progress on here - partly as a check on myself and also an insentive to keep going. The race is a 750m swim, 20K (~12 miles) bike  and 5K (~3 miles) run, in that order. 

This week:

2x 3 mile runs

1x 750m swim - all crawl for the first time ever

1x strength training session

Targets to improve: More strength training and a bike session.

New experience

Today I interviewed someone for the first time.  I found it an enjoyable experience, hopefully they did too!  Made me feel old though.  A new graduate, fresh out of college with ideas and ambitions and inexperience.  I realise how much I have learnt and developed over the last 7 years.  I also realise that I still have an enormous amount to learn.  So now I am about to become a Principal for the first time, I hope I can use all the experiences I have had, good and bad, to be a good Principal and help someone begin their osteopathic career.

A helpful hymn:

My rest is in heaven; my rest is not here
Then why should I murmer when trials are near?
Be hushed my dark spirit! The worst that can come
But shortens my journey, and hastens thee home

It is not for me to be seeking my bliss
And building my hopes in a region like this
I look for a city which hands have not piled
I pant for a country by sin undefiled

The thorn and the thistle around me may grow
I would not lie down upon roses below
I ask not my portion, I seek not a rest
Till I find them, O Lord, in Thy sheltering breast

Afflictions may damp me, they cannot destroy
One glimpse of Thy love turns them all into joy
And the bitterest tears, if Thou smile but on them
Like dew in the sunshine, grow diamond and gem

Let doubt then, and danger, my progress oppose
They only make Heaven more sweet at the close
Come joy, or come sorrow, whate'er may befall
And hour with my God will make up for it all