Yesterday was another day that was supposed to be warm with a "chance" of rain. When you wake up and it's already raining, how does that translate to a chance? I was going to go do an organized ride that begins northwest of me, and I've done the ride many times before, but the radar didn't look to be improving, so I began thinking about Plan B.
I had wanted to ride for 4 hours, since Saturday was the shorter ride of only 3 (although originally my training plan had called for a 4-hour and 2-hour ride--see how I ignore my coach?). It looked like the rain should clear out by maybe 11AM, so I got to doing other things around the house, and kept checking on the radar. I was going to drive to Fermilab, and did not want to be on the trainer!
Well, it was drawing near to 11AM and still raining...what to do? I ended up putting LGL on the trainer and started into a warmup as if I were doing my shorter, harder Tuesday ride. I wanted to see what I had left in my legs after Saturday's rather hard riding. Apparently quite a bit! I checked the weather after 1/2 hour, and decided to keep going for another 1/2 hour, which turned into 1:15, at which point I loaded up the car and headed to Fermilab.
The roads were wet, but with the sun coming out and the temperature rising rapidly (I think it did make it to near 80), things would dry up in a hurry, but I still got some nice spray up my ass. The wind was out of the east when I started, and since I was heading generally west, it was great! But a little over halfway around my 16-mile loop, the wind switched to south, and it picked up in a big way. No worries, wind makes me work!
I approached my entrance to the Big Ring but was being stalked by security, so I rode past it, doubled back and got on, and was quickly spotted by 2 security cars, and I got booted off. Damn! I had really wanted to do 2 laps around it.
No worries, with the wind picking up I was getting plenty of high powered action riding right into it and figured I'd just need one more full loop to get to about 3.5 hours total (including the trainer time), which would be enough on the day. But I did struggle with my inner voice which kept saying, "Listen fuckhead you said you were going to do 4 hours and it's not like you don't have the time so why don't you keep riding?" Still, I rationalized that I was going to end up riding more than was on the training schedule, so it was all good.
When I finished, I wiped down LGL to get rid of worms, sand and road spray as best I could, wiped off my own face, and drove home. I unloaded the car, and now it was really nice out, so I decided to plant a few things that have been waiting to get into the ground for a few weeks--6 lilies (Casa Blanca--pure white orientals that are gorgeous assuming they still grow since I should have planted them weeks ago), 3 heliotropes and an Angel's Trumpet that I had forgotten I had ordered.
While I was at it and dirty and smelly, I figured I should start raking the back lawn again, which was necessary since my neighbors never raked their leaves last fall so I got the pleasure of their leaves blowing onto my lawn during the winter which was not really good for the grass, all the while they are out there grilling and listening to tunes and most likely boozing it up.
I raked for maybe 1/2 hour, and was feeling famished and needing a shower, so I finally went inside to clean up and grabbed a beer. I was just beginning to stretch when a friend dropped by and we had some eats and then went back outside to enjoy the weather and my neighbor's girlfriend came over to have a conversation with us. She was pretty well blitzed, and she began asking me to go work out with her. I'm like OK whatever just get up at 5AM and we'll get to it. Not likely...she needs to quit smoking, but says she used to run cross country. She asked us how to get her butt in shape to wear a bikini on an impending vacation and we are like DO HUNDREDS OF SQUATS! That was an entertaining conversation.
This morning I am tired, sore and needing some major rest, so after waking up late and skipping the swimming, I think I will follow suit and skip the run and just get a massage this afternoon. Four straight weeks of 18+ hours and I am pretty worked. This is my big biking week, so I'll kick it off tomorrow with a 2-hour ride and short brick run.
Here's what I got done last week:
| Weekly Workout Totals | 04/20/2009-04/26/2009 This week's totals are sponsored by WIND! |
| Swim: | 9700 yards (5.51 miles) in 3.5 hours; 19% of weekly workout time; approx. 1226 calories burned Canadian: 8869.68 meters |
| Bike: | Approx. 145.81 miles in 8.17 hours; 45% of weekly workout time; approx. 4778 calories burned; Total TSS=567 Canadian: 234.66 kilometers |
| Run: | Approx. 36.27 miles in 5.39 hours; 29% of weekly workout time; approx. 2434 calories burned Canadian: 58.37 kilometers |
| Strength: | 1.22 hours; 7% of weekly workout time; approx. 305 calories burned |
| All Sports: | Approx. 187.59 miles in 18.28 hours; approx. 8743 calories burned Canadian: 301.9 kilometers |
| Sleep: | 7.93 hours avg./night |
| Stretching: | 2.7 hours. Massage: 1 hours |
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