Not the best but not the worst

This week's training wasn't too bad. The weather played a major role in the sessions that I missed.

Monday 5/24

WO#1 Masters Swim

90mins; 3500m

Felt good to be in the pool for the entire time

Tuesday 5/25

WO#1 Easy Bike

Put the bike on the trainer to get my time in. No distance since my bike cpu stopped working. I did get to watch three episodes of Arrested Development. This is by far one of my favorite shows.

60mins

Wednesday 5/26

WO#1 Masters Swim

Had to cut this one short since I have PT in the afternoon. Lots of drills and technique work

45mins; 1850m

WO#2 Physical Therapy

60mins; Strength & stretching

WO#3 Easy Run (5x10min walk w/ :45 recovery)

63mins; 5.1miles

Thursday 5/27

WO#1 Moderate Brick

I cut the run short tonight, but at least I did make it out for the run

1.5hr bike on the trainer w/ 22 minute run (2.2miles)

Friday 5/28

WO#1 Masters Swim

90minutes; 3800m

Good day in the pool. Short distance w/ high intensity.

WO#2 Physical Therapy

60 mins; Strength & Stretching

WO#3 Run; rained out

Saturday 5/29

Had a good 3 hr bike planned for today. The route was out to Pell City and back. Would have been new territory. Thanks to the rain I didn't get to go.

We did have a big cookout over at John's (my coach) house. It was an awesome time. It was fun to spend time with everyone when we aren't wearing spandex. We took little dude with us. he was perfect. He started to get tired around 2 so we had to duck on out. Wished we could have stayed longer.

Sunday 5/30

Tried to get my long run in today. I woke up with a sore throat and head/chest congestion. I drug myself out on the street and started running. The warm-up went well, but when tried to pick up the pace, I'd start coughing something fierce. I decided I would just try and take it easy today and drink a lot of fluids. I only got about 2.5 miles in today. Spending the early PM getting all my gear ready for the LJCC race tomorrow. It should be a good time. I'm number 53. There are 6 of us in the Clydesdales 0-39 division. I'll get up a race report tomorrow afternoon.

Eric's Clip of the Week: For those that don't know why people spend money on bikes...I've got one word...performance

Love at first sight?

So I walked into Bike Link yesterday evening to get my new bike cpu and took my obligatory stroll through all the bikes. There she was...just hanging out in the middle of the store…my dream tri-bike. Sure, I’ve seen pics on the internet, but seeing her up close was inspiring with her carbon frame, Dura-Ace shifters, & Ultegra crankset, all coming in at 19.62 lbs . I’m so going to go take it for a test ride this weekend. Here’s a pic off the Felt website.




Guess I’d better start saving my quarters!

Not Even...

Not even gonna post last week’s workouts. I was the biggest slacker Thursday thru Sunday. I did go swim for half the time Friday but that is it. You remember in school when you skipped class for the first time? You tried to convince yourself that it wouldn’t happen again, but after you missed that first class, it became easier and easier to skip again. Then you end up being so far behind in homework, reading, or studying that you end up sucking on the test. Well, missing training is pretty much the same. The only difference is that you can’t really cram your training in the night before a race. We are down to 166 days until IM Florida and there are a chunk of races before then that I need/want to tear through and dare I say place in the top 5 of my division. Sunday I had a little “come to Jesus” talk with myself. No more excuses…no more sleepin in…it’s time to get back on track and focus on my season’s goals. I’ve been so easily distracted these past few weeks. Everything has seemed like a good enough reason to skip a training session. Well, it’s not fair to anyone really. Time to change the way things are going. The LJCC race is on Memorial Day. It’s going to be a fun little super sprint. Nothing real daunting on the training schedule this week. It should be the perfect week to hit all my training goals for the week and then finish strong at a race where I feel confident I could finish near the top of my division (only 5 people including me as of today I think). I haven’t registered yet. There’s a chance of a free entry being available on Tuesday. Hopefully I’ll win it. So if you’re bored on Memorial Day, feel free to come out to the LJCC. There is going to be a pool party afterwards with pizza and beer. Keep safe out there.

Eric’s Quote of the Day: “Quit? You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit. So what are you dying of that's keeping you from the finals?"~Lance Armstrong to Peter LaFleur in Dodgeball