need some encouragement (...whine)

[alpinerabbit]

OK. So based on yesterday's experience, I think I can run more than 5k after biking 40. Make that 10...?

There' s an Oly in August that I have my eyes set upon. It has a major hill at 10K (200 meters) and then another 150 but less steep. km 20-30 is downhil and 30-40 is flat.
The course is here:http://www.reygrafik.ch/pdf/uster_tri_rad_lauf.pdf

I'm mainly concerned about the swim.

I just did 500 in 11 minutes.
Even if I take between 35 and 40min to do the swim I will not be last. See last years rankings: http://services.datasport.com/2007/t...er/RANG092.HTM

I might even make sub 3 hours (see there. I'm already putting on the pressure). Who knows...
should I do it? can I make it? I just realized again yesterday that all the fantasizing over going a longer distance (since the individual legs are within reach) just dissolves once you are actually at it and asking yourself why am I doing this, and it never seems to end....

What's the mindset I need to do a 1500 m swim instead of 500?
This may seem like a joke - I have been swimming 3-3,5 K in practice regularly, but it's not: that was never in one piece. When I used to do 1K or 2 in one piece I on my own, I went slower and took seemingly forever... and I haven't done that in ages... Yesterday did not hurt, I even got into some kind of rhythm for a while but it was still long...

If I continue at the kind of HR I had yesterday (average 172 for bike / run), will I blow up? I think 170 is just below my anaerobic threshhold for the bike, and 180 or a bit more for the run. What I am missing is "competition endurance". I'm not very good at self-torture.