DAY 21 TAHOE- Great day! Started off with the intention of a brick work out swim to bike and ended up doing a mini triathlon:-) The swim was for 35 minutes, intended for 30 but my swim stroke went to another level and I was having so much fun gliding through the water I had to do another 5 minutes. Did 5 min warm up, 15 minutes kick board sprints working just the legs burning them before the bike, then did 5 minutes of all out sprints, and then 5 minutes cool down of working on form and how few strokes to glide across he pull, I felt like super man flying through the water, great swim day. Then got on the bike and went 120 miles, First 56 went well and did it in 2:53. My goal is to get down to 2:30 but this is a start. Second part had some break downs in nutrition. I was dry heaving at mile 80 and at 3 hours I needed water and the fountain I was counting on was out of order so I lost 10 minutes finding another. The cool part was I got the full 120 done in 6:30 so it was about 30 minutes more than expected but a great day never the less. Funny part was that I drove by a flock of pigeons and they all flew up to get out of the way and I thought to myself " I wonder if anyone ever hits a pigeon, I wonder if the pigeons are highly skilled and avoid this" then about an hour later I see another flock on the ground and ride up to them and as they scatter one flies up and tags me in the head:-) The law of attraction! I thought it was funny and yes the pigeon was o.k. and so was I:-) Next when I got back I was craving a run so I did 6.5 miles of a recovery type run at about a 10 minute pace. It was nice out and I also wanted to run on the legs to feel it after the long bike and intense kicking session in the pool. Felt great! I could have ran a marathon:-) I feel my base is in place now going into my third week of training and I can start lowering my times and make some real progress! Tomorrow I have a fast hard intense brick day planned at race pace. I will time trial the bike and run at my fastest possible pace. I intend on doing a 60 mile bike and 6 mile run. LFE IS GOOD!!!
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 02:56:00 +0000