Early in while on the bike path, a deer almost jumped in front of me in the woods--I was happy I'd seen her before she did! A mile or so later, I saw a man fumbling with his rear wheel, and I stopped to ask if he needed help. Turns out he did--he'd just bought a well-used bike (complete with downtube shifters!), said the rear wheel came out of the dropouts and he fell, and he didn't know how to get the wheel back on. So I took a look, moved the rear brake, got the wheel back on, and made him promise me he'd take the bike into a shop for a complete tuneup!
After getting out of the woods and back near the Burlington Northern train tracks, I decided I wanted some more water, so I rode to this park that I do not know the name of (nor do I know the name of most of the streets that I ride on when I take this route), and noticed a black Lamborghini parked by the tennis courts. I wanted to just stop and stare and look inside, but that would be crass, so I just went and guzzled a bunch of water from the fountain and went on my way. I was about 13.5 miles from home at this point.
The ride back home sucked mostly when I was heading south, but also much of the time heading west, as the winds were SSW to WSW. Some of the crosswinds made me laugh, because I've felt some of the worst ones in the world when I was in Kona in 2004. When I arrived back home, I drank some more ice cold water, grabbed another bottle of Infinit and water, and didn't dally too much lest I become enchanted by the air conditioning. I did check the temperature, and now it was about 88, and I'd covered 45 miles, so I only needed to do 35 more if I wanted to hit 80.
After being indoors for just a little bit, when I started out again, I could tell it was really hot, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky, so the sun would just be beating down. I'd changed from tri shorts into a tri swimsuit bottom, because for me, cool legs equals cooler Crackhead. The winds had picked up, too, and yet I headed east again, meaning I'd be returning in a headwind.
I didn't really want to repeat the same loop I'd just done, so this time, I went out for 5 miles and then decided I'd do some "Pepperidge Farm" repeats. Yes, there's a Pepperidge Farm factory right in my town, and there's a 5-mile (2.5 miles out and then 2.5 miles back) loop alongside the train tracks that I'd used on Friday a few times. I'd need to do 5 repeats to make 35 miles total.
It sucked riding right into the wind on purpose, but hey, what are you going to do? After 3 repeats, though, I wanted to go someplace else, so I headed further east and meandered around through some neigborhoods (just to get a little shade), and when all was said and done, I'd made about 85 miles total!
I felt pretty shelled mostly from the heat, and while I had plans to accomplish some other things, about all I really did was lay around and read the newspaper and watch a little TV, and feel good about how much training I'd gotten done in my second week after IMLP:
| Weekly Workout Totals | 08/03/2009-08/09/2009 This week's totals are sponsored by the Recovery |
| Swim: | 12525 yards (7.11 miles) in 4.47 hours; 22% of weekly workout time; approx. 1564 calories burned Canadian: 11452.86 meters |
| Bike: | Approx. 206.62 miles in 11.8 hours; 57% of weekly workout time; approx. 5665 calories burned; Total TSS=638 Canadian: 332.52 kilometers |
| Run: | Approx. 21.96 miles in 3.35 hours; 16% of weekly workout time; approx. 1502 calories burned Canadian: 35.34 kilometers |
| Strength: | 0.97 hours; 5% of weekly workout time; approx. 243 calories burned |
| All Sports: | Approx. 235.69 miles in 20.59 hours; approx. 8974 calories burned Canadian: 20.59 kilometers |
| Sleep: | 9.04 hours avg./night |
| Stretching: | 2.27 hours. Massage: 0 hours |
So a good amount of swimming and biking, and I ran more than my plan called for and feel fine for it. This morning I ran and it felt good--almost like my run legs are back. I am cautiously optimistic. We'll have to see how this week goes, and then, crap, it's taper time AGAIN!!!
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