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October 20, 2007
Early Morning Riding
Today I got to do one of my all time favorite things in the world - go to a wedding shower! Of course I'm going to have to tell you that that's a big fat lie because it's hard to convey sarcasm on a blog. Wedding showers are indeed one of my least favorite things in the world. But they are what they are and you have to go. I didn't even like my own wedding shower. It truly is boring to watch someone open gifts for 3 hours.
Regardless, the shower I went to today started at 1 pm. It takes about an hour to drive there. I had a 3:40 ride and 30 minute run brick on my schedule today. It takes me about an hour and half to get ready after my brick between icing, eating, showering, stretching and about 5 seconds to comb my hair. :) If you start to do the math you can see that I was going to need to start my ride very early this morning if I wanted to get it all in and that means one thing and one thing only - the trainer!!
So at 6 am this morning I was mounting my bike on the trainer in the living room watching a movie On Demand. It's been a long time since I've done a ride that long on the trainer. It sort of turned out well though because although it was pretty sunny the morning ended up being VERY windy and quite chilly so riding outside would have made for a tough day. Regardless, I did survive all 3:40 of my trainer ride which I'm pretty sure is a new record. It actually went by relatively quickly by watching 1.5 movies. And about half way through O and Roxy came to join me (although they were laying on the couch as I was pedaling away).
After the ride we all went on my 30 minute run. Hamstring was actually pretty good - I think after sitting on my bike (on the trainer no less) for that long everything hurts so it was hard to determine if my hamstring felt any different than the norm. :) The run actually went quite well which gave me a little confidence for my race in 3 weeks time.
And so it goes. I don't think I've ever been done with a 4+ hour workout before 10 am in the morning before!! It was quite nice actually - not when my alarm went off this morning but nice to be done so early.
And now, somehow, it's 8 pm! I guess time really does fly when you're having fun... :)
Posted by beth at October 20, 2007 7:57 PM