RUN: 41 mins, 4 miles, goal was a steady run
BIKE: 36 mins, 6 miles, goal was to ride Scenic Loop!
That sounds like a long day, like I did a whole heck of a lot but in reality all I did was drive around all morning. Drive to the pool, drive to Queeny Park, drive (and get lost on the way) to Scenic Loop for riding. After all this working out I went to Michaels, Schnucks, and Big River. I was gone a total 0f 8hrs!
The swim started off as an swim alone at the WH pool. I was a little nervous so my WU was messy. I was nervous about hitting my head and being alone. Then another swimmer showed up and I relaxed. The 1st 600 was slower than I liked--12:59.50. Squeaked it in under 13 minutes, when I should have been squeaking in under 11 or 12. The 2nd 600 was pulling, and I miscounted the laps. I think I did 13 or 14 laps. The pull set felt a lot faster, and I still did it in 13 minutes. I'd loose all my time with bad open turns.
Then the run, I went to Queeny with the goal of running some of those hills and focusing on keeping a low and controlled heart rate. All was well until I realized that I didn't have running shoes in the back of the truck like I thought I did. NUTS! So I ran in the black Sauc's I had--not running shoes but it was only 4 miles! Then I came across the closed Trail in Queeny-Nuts! The HRM was wamfy today--reading really high numbers again. I thought for awhile it was the tech shirt or the sports bra causing static or some issue, but I couldn't fix it. When I finished I had to use the bathroom, and found the doors locked! Nuts! But it all ended well, time to ride!
I got lost on the way to Scenic and ended up getting a pretty drive on Manchester Rd to Pacific then back to Eureka. Pretty and pretty frustrating! Like I had nothing else to be doing!?
I pre-drove the Rd realizing that the 1 time I'd ridden this course before was not the "hard way". The "hard way" is against traffic and that's not the way I did it before. So this was going to be new! At the top of The Hill there was a "Steep Grade Ahead" sign, LOL. I parked in the horse/campground area and pulled out the Bird and....where was my front wheel? WHAT?! I was refueling with some Clif Bloks at this point, and when I realized I didn't see my wheel I just kept munching. Huh. Well now what. Really?! Not in the bed, not in the back of the cab, not leaning in the front seat. Munch munch. Huh. Munch munch. No wait...there it is!! Leaning backwards against the front seat and covered by my swim towel. Yipee!! Saddle up!
I took off riding backwards in the Loop--the Hard Way. I didn't get much of a warmup, the hills were fast and furious. Down hill first, then The Scenic Loop Hill. It wound and turned so you really couldn't see the entire thing all at once. But the major part was all one shot up. Down into the 27, and spin-spin-spin. Heart rate up. And me going up! The Bird was flying up this hill! We hit the top and kept going in low gear to rest. Hoo boy. At the turn around it was only 2 miles. Time to go back. Hoo boy.
I'm such a down hill chicken. BAWK BAWK BAWK. I was riding the brakes way too much, even when I was riding with traffic, even though I saw all of 2 cars this entire ride. When I reached the other end, it was decision time. Go back to the truck, or go back for more. My HR was flying and not coming back down. I was heaving, gasping. The last hill to this point was a long slow climb. Heaving still. I needed to do this again.
Back down the hill, and back to Scenic Loop Hill. This time I jumped up to the 2nd gear (25) and stood up occasionally, seated, standing, seated, standing. I had some worry about my climbing while standing--couldn't I keep the bike in control without swaying? Yes I could. Success! I topped The Hill and stopped. I was done. And I still had to climb one more back to the truck.
All was well with the Birds new drive train. The chain dropped once on an easy shift on the last climb, but I repeated the climb and shift with no issue. Wish I understood why that happened so I could avoid it!
Back at the truck, I reflected on this great day. JM's A did her first tri today! IMWI was one year ago today!! I had a great SBR day!! Today I built great confidence for the Savageman race! Now it's time to rest for that big race!
NUMERICS: Includes the Labor Day Monday holiday:
SWIM 4000y in 1.8 hrs
BIKE 153 miles in 9.97 hours
RUN 17 miles in 2.63 hours
For a grand total of 14.43 hours.
This could very well be my LAST triathlon training weekend for Two Thousand Hilleven!
No comments:
Post a Comment