Irongirl DONE

 

And I got top ten, which was my goal.

 

1:06 faster than last year; not as fast as I had hoped

but had a swimming problem that followed me through the race.

Got over it.

Every Year

It seems that every year someone has an injury that stops them from being their best for irongirl. These are invisible injuries and you don't go to the doctor for them because they aren't that bad. But still.
Did they really happen or is it an excuse?
Someone is mad at me because I told her to quit whining and go ride.

Bike Sandwich

Run, bike & run again, sounds easy enough.

 

 

Today I was supposed to run 1:20, bike 1:00 and run :40 but I went over on my first run, to 1:45. Ran 8.56 hilly miles. Did a 15 minute transition and rode my bike exactly 16 miles in an hour.

Then back into my running shoes and out onto the road.

BOOM!

But I was out of gas.

I ran / walked half mile up the road, turned around and headed home. Got halfway back and notice loose cows in the yard beside me, no one lives there and neither do those cows.

I know, because I've seen those cows loose a few times this week, usually in the pasture across the street from here.

Obviously that red cow this the hard bossy cow. Today as I stood on the side of the road I watched her pushing the others around until they left the scene of the crime, faded into the woods behind the empty house.

Animal Control was finally called.

 

I tried to call Lan, got no response. When he finally called me back I was pretty upset since I had just told him an hour earlier that he needed to keep his phone on him when I was out for long periods of time in case I needed him for anything. And I HAD needed him during my long run. Forgot my bottle and he could have brought it to me a lot easier than me running back for it.

So I had to run 5 miles without water and while I didn't die or at any time feel like I was going to, it would have been nice to wet my mouth and have my tissues so I could blow my nose. I totally DISLIKE logger blows.

 

 

I got a total of 9.5 miles ran today and I'm OK with that.

 

As for the bike, I figured out a lap out here on our very road is pretty 'flat', for our area. Go from out house down to Cenex, turn around and come back here, past home, past my friends road to the Possum Run Farm (where I thought the cows go but they don't) and back to our house and its 8 miles. If I ride that 14 times, its 112 miles.

 

Here is what I would like to do this week:

 

7 laps, 56 miles.

I think its a pretty good plan.

 

Next weekend is Irongirl.

 

So Tired

I woke up ready and raring to go but now I have lost all motivation. I just want to sleep.

Competitive Season

I just spent a week doing some pretty hard workouts and lived to talk about it.

 

Swim 1.73 miles in 1:20 with an average 1.30mph / 46:09 min/mile

Bike 103.45 miles in 7:25 with an average of 13.95mph 4:18 min/mile

Run 24.52 miles in 5:00 with an average 4.90mph / pace 12:14 min/mile

 

13 hours 45 minutes of working out that ended yesterday, right before my 10 hour shift at work.

 

 

I lost ZERO weight. I did rearrange workouts so I could get in a long ride (60 miles) on Thursday instead of the weekend and didn't do a bike ride so that I'd save energy for a long weekend workout.

 

In the coming week I hope to keep up the good work.

 

Today I made a trip over to Seattle and purchased a new CD for my computrainer, Racermate One. Its got all their current courses with video so I can RIDE THE COURSES. Of course, it will be here, in my own home. I'll get a better workout than if I were riding on the road. Can't wait to try it out.

 

 

I'm in, again.

 

Yukon Do It

 

half marathon, December 27, 2015.

 

One of my favorites.

 

Alone or Not Alone

Sometimes I have to ride my bike on long rides alone and I hate it.

 

Or, I think I hate it.

But only up until the point of being out on the roads.

I actually enjoy those rides because I can go my own speed, I have to wait for no one else and there is no one to bitch if I have to stop to pee or take a picture.

 

At the same time I do not like to be out on the roads with out someone who knows where I am. I'll be having a lot of big rides coming up, I need to go 60+ this weekend and get home in time to work at 4:00. That means I need to plan the ride, get my shit ready and hit the road early and not have any problems. I need to know where I'm going, I have to be able to call home if I need to, I have to have someone that can rescue me IN TIME FOR WORK if need be.

 

And I have to make sure Sylar is doing well. He's had some problems lately that have been bugging the shit out of me. He squeaks, damnit. I know some of that is my shoes but not all of it and there is a clunking sometimes and I don't think its my feet. It feels like the chain is hitting a big ring tooth crooked or something.

I told Lan I want him to ride it 5 miles, not just around the yard, so he can hear and feel it.

 

If you look closely you will see a lot of dirt and dust on Sylar. I haven't washed him in a year and I've put a lot of miles on him, over 1250 since January. I have Irongirl coming up in 3 weeks so I'm going to give him a bath tonight and ask Lan to tune him up.