BIKE 4:20 and 72-some miles
IT and I had an option to ride St Chuck with some of the MiTi group, but neither of us were interested in the location or later 8am start time. And TH was at Nats, G...don't know what he was doing. So we headed over to Columbia where we ran into JP and JayM. They had a century planned, and I was happy to offer them a mod to our Freeburg route, and more happy that they joined us!
I started off not feeling good at all. Yesterday I ate a Lara bar and even though I ate half in the morning and half later in the day my stomach didn't take it well. And I probably ate too much for brekkie? When I'm tired I think eating more will help, when will I learn it doesn't? So I struggled, both mentally and physically. The mental bumps I had to talk myself through, the burp-ups of food I had to swallow. Ugh, tummy gas...
I struggled on hills, but my shifting to a lower gear and spinning kept me going. My leg strength isn't what it used to be but I'm adapting.
The ride also started out in a misty rainy fog that was quite pretty. Sunglasses came off for the first few hours! Wonderfully cool and pretty morning. And when JP and JM turned off on D Rd for their 100, and IT and I turned the other way for 75, I was HAPPY!
It seemed from the training plan that real meat of today was the brick run: 45 mins with the first 30 mins above expected race pace. IT had a 90 min run (!!) so we paced the first 25 mins together at sub 8:30's! Definitely sub race pace :) When I turned around I dropped to about 9:20-9:30 for the rest of the run.
I tested my new orthotics (FINALLY got those inserted) but they still aren't perfect. Not sure I can get them together before the race.
Everything felt good, I was mentally dull but had good enough energy the rest of the day to run errands with DH.
No comments:
Post a Comment