Day Ninety-Six

Swim-Bike-Run

A little triathlon today.  In the past when I have had these brick workouts it is 1 hour bike 20 minute run, so today is a significant jump.  Went swimming with Rheana, I did my 2800 and the hopped out.  She was going to stay for the full 2 hours and try to get four miles in.  Thankfully I did not have to do that.  Swimming in the pool can get boring, I don't think I have the mental capacity to swim in a pool -straight freestyle - no drills for 2 hours.

I drove down south a ways to do my bike run.  145 bike and 45 minute run.  I felt great.  I am so happy that yesterday we did not do the hard climb because today I feel refreshed and ready to conquer this bike run.  I started off on a bike path, not the best idea on a sunny, weekend afternoon.  It was really crowded and I was weaving in and out to get past families.  I kept my speed slow enough to respect the walkers, so it was quite tedious.  Then jumped back on the road at my first chance, finished going out for 50 or so minutes and turned around.  On the way back I got a little lost since I did not want to take the bike path, but a few wrong turns followed by a few correct turns and I made it back.  The reason I park by this path was so I could do my run on it after my bike.  This was good in theory but it was all down hill on the way out so after my swim, 145 bike and 23 minutes of running I had to run all uphill to finish.  Bad planning can only make me stronger.

I think I did a good job eating on the bike, but I had one gu before my run and I think it was too much.  My stomach got upset about half way through the run and I had to use an outhouse on the way back :(  But all in all I felt strong and learned a lesson about how much gu my body can handle.