I mentioned the other day that I had surpassed the amout of swimming I had completed in 2006… well yesterday, I surpassed the amount of cycling that I did in 2006 too!

This was a pretty big surprise for me when I started looking at the numbers, mainly due to the fact that I felt like all I did last summer was cycle … little running - no swimming.

But now that I think about it, I didn’t start cycling again until May of 2006. In contrast, I have made a point to be consistent with my cycling even during the winter months (thanks to a little bit of encouragement from Dean Hewson).

Why am I so hung up on my total amounts of swimming, biking and running? Read my post - “How to pass the ’suck threshold’ in triathlon” and you’ll get an idea why. The other reason for me is that it displays a little sign of consistency in training. It can be very hard to train a lot of hours over a years time if you are taking weeks or months off.

Recently I’ve seen my swimming benefit… hopefully other improvements will be witnessed too.