first two weeks of training

Here are my first two weeks of training.
Resting pulse rate: 59
Weight: 68

Wo:1 Tges | RUN | h:mm,km | BIKE h:mm,km | SWIM h:mm,km
Mo 01:15:00 | ######## | 00:01:05 | 00:10:00
Di 00:30:00 | 00:30:00 | ######## | ########
Mi ######## | ######## | ######## | ########
Do ######## | ######## | ######## | ########
Fr 00:35:00 | ######## | 00:35:00 | ########
Sa 00:50:00 | ######## | ######## | 00:50:00
So ######## | ######## | ######## | ########
SUM 03:10:00 | 00:30:00 | 01:40:00 | 01:00:00

Wo:2 Tges | RUN h:mm,km | BIKE h:mm,km | SWIM h:mm,km
Mo 02:05:00 | 00:45:00 | 01:20:00 | 00:10:00
Di 01:30:00 | ######## | 01:20:00 | 00:10:00
Mi 01:00:00 | ######## | ######## | 01:00:00
Do 01:00:00 | 01:00:00 | ######## | ########
Fr ######## | ######## | ######## | ########
Sa 00:40:00 | ######## | ######## | 00:40:00
So 01:00:00 | 00:50:00 | ######## | ########
SUM 07:15:00 | 02:35:00 | 02:40:00 | 02:00:00


So 3:10h in the first and 7:15h in the second week. But i will try to make 10h in average for the first three month and increase then to 12-15 at maximum times.

rainy weather

rainy weather today, so i did not go by bike to work. but 1h jogging at lunch break.

blogs are strange emotion-self-prostitution areas. see this: "I have hope that there is still something good in this world, hope that I can feel good, hope that I can be happy with myself. Hope that I can do something. Hope that I am not a complete failure..." see: nice.blogspot.com oh my god!!! stupid self-pity!

why such a f****** name for a blog

the blog name is a f****** one. this is beyond doubt. but here comes the very simple reason.

BAT2A is a special salary in civil service for a scientific employee. -1/2 stands for half of the BAT2A salary. and -O means that i only get the eastern germany (former GDR or in german: DDR, this does not mean Dance Dance Revolution) salary.

Altogether i must say that i work full time, have a half-payed job and additionally: i get less than people in same positions west of germany. nice, ha?!
(despite of the last nice point of my special salary reductions - we all don't want to have the DDR back!!!)

yes, i thought my salary is worth using it as a blog name. :)



--bat2ahalf-oman

training time increases to 7:15

The time i spend on training slightly increases. During my first week i did altogether 3:15h of training with 1h swimming, 1:30 biking and 0:45 running. The second week (last week) i did 7:15 with spending nearly 2h on each sport.

During all running units i had little aches in my knees. Hence i will very slowly increase my running time.
Swimming is hard as i try to make more than 100km of freestyle and every time i started i only did something below between 50-100m. i don't have any endurance in freestyle. it is such a big difference to running. but last sunday i was so happy to do exactly 200m of freestyle in around six minutes.

My knowledge of my first two weeks of training is not to do so much hard units on running (aching knees) and invest more time in increasing my endurance in freestyle.
[i think one has to invest the time in freestyle and not in breaststroke as you won't have big power in your legs after 3,8km of breaststroke. Even now i feel the difference between both kinds of swimming in my legs.]

--bat2ahalf-oman

my daily routine

from monday to friday the children start our life at about 6:15, the same time we have to get up and eat something. At 7:30 we take the children to the kindergarden. After that i go by racing bike 14km (since the start of my ironman-career. ;) ) to my work close to the beach. But as you've seen, the last weeks i only did one or two days of biking to my work. This week i plan to expand the 14km to an extended round through little villages with altogether 25km. And i plan to do this before and after work every day from monday to friday. today in the morning i did it and the rest of the week i hope so too. then this would be 50km*5=250km per week - i thing definitely enough for my first months. if nothing comes in-between, i 'only' have to think when to swim and run.
my running units i plan to do every two days for half an hour. on the weekend when the children are (hopefully) sleeping and under the week during my lunch break (every second day no meal together with my co-worker).
and my swimming i do every wednesday from 20:oo to 21:oo and on sunday or saturday again when the children are sleeping

Generally this is my plan, if everything works well:
2h of swimming+2hrunning+~6hbiking=10h
WOW, i really did not expect that i could find so much time!! but this is theory - my second week was 7:15 and we will see, there might be illness of whatever, aching knees ...

--bat2ahalf-oman