G's Zone 0 Ride

BIKE 3:09 and 56 miles with G and IT
RUN 30 mins and 3 miles with G

Whooop this was a faster paced ride, one nice thing about the Ride of the Saints Route is the looooong stretches of straight road. It's easier to get bored on roads like that, easy to kinda drift off mentally and forget to push. But not today, G was pushing a pace trying to get into Zone 1 (as in...UP into zone 1!) and he dusted me off the back. Sometimes all I could see was his uber bright new green helmet!

One thing though is that we didn't get to talk much. It was go-go-go and my first ride this year in which I was reminded that racing is a solitary pursuit, and the ability to push it alone is something I need to work on. I can't be on someone's tail all the time, or talking alongside someone. I need to be comfortable in my own head pushing myself.

At times I found myself getting negative about not being able to keep up. Getting down on myself, not being as positive. Work on it!

The brick run was at my zone 0 pace :) G was doing a run 10 min, walk 1 min thing to simulate aid stations. Damn that felt good! I need more like that.