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July 22, 2006
Good Day's Work
I had a good training day today. Pretty soon I'm going to be having a good napping day too. Gotta love the weekends! :)
Things got started off with the group ride at 9 am. It was raining as I was driving to the store and I have to admit - I wasn't looking forward to 40 hard miles, in the rain, trying desperately to keep up with people that are faster than me. But things turned out much better than I had hoped. For one, it stopped raining and while the roads were still really wet (and some of the downhills very scary) the weather was pretty nice since the rain cooled things off. Then, as we're standing around, I notice there is another woman! K couldn't come today because she was flying home from California so I was thinking I was going to be the only woman, making my plight to stay with the guys even tougher. But alas, another woman (and she was a triathlete too!) to ride with. Things were looking up.
To top it all off, we rode a lot easier today. Well actually they rode a lot easier today meaning people like me could keep up, even though I had to work harder to do it. All in all it resulted in a very nice ride. I kept up with the group the whole time. I didn't feel like I was going to keel over when we were done. I got a good hard ride in but didn't over-do it. Very nice. :) In total we rode 38 miles in about 1:57:30 or so - about 19.3 MPH average. I'll take it.
Next up was a swim. I was supposed to swim first but there weren't any pools open early enough before the ride to get to the ride on time, so I switched things around. My swim workout was short - only 1900 meters - but involved a 1000 meter time trial.
I drove to the Pitt pool and started my swim about an hour after our ride was over.
400 meters warmup
1000 meter time trial (15:58 - ave 1:36/100 meter)
500 meter cooldown
Short and sweet. I was working on the 1000 meters though. My legs were a little fatigued from the cycling but my arms were feeling fresh. I was pleased with a 16 minute time. My goal was 16:40 (1:40/100 meter) so it was nice to get under that.
And so went my morning/early afternoon. Now I'm ready for a serious nap as is O who ran 20 miles this morning. And Roxy is always ready for a nap. We make quite a trio. :)
Enjoy your Saturday's everyone!
Posted by beth at July 22, 2006 2:53 PM
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (I already started my nap)
Posted by: O at July 22, 2006 5:00 PM