32 mile week. And "you'll be okay".

RUN 2.7 miles in 27 mins, 10:09 m/m ave HR 130, ave cad 173
BIKE 30 miles in 2 hours (below)

I slept awful overnight and needed a benedryl to sleep. My legs and body were restless and kinda achy. Duh, half mary.

The run was adjusted for overages earlier in the week, the goal was 32 miles and I certainly didn't need more. So as a reward of sorts I cut short to 2.7 for an even 32 total. Whoop! My HR still seems really high for the effort? But happily my cadence is pretty good.

After some stomach upset (both overnight, before, and after the run) I left for the ride. I really wanted to ride Babler, but see below for the full discussion on that. Instead I did 4x the TGP loops. Rode the first one backwards and soon realized why I don't ride that direction -- the turns cross traffic.

All felt great, didn't push a pace and kept it "steady": The interval is 4.6 miles, I ave'd just under 16 mph on each. Ooof that feels slow.
1 17:54  127 bpm
2 17:45  129
3 18:00   127
4 17:55   126

After the loops, rode to work, and then some extra blocks got my full 30 miles. I joked that I should have gone to the pool for 300 yards so I could have a 3 miles, 30 mile, 300 yard day. But instead I did gardening -- got all my seeds in!

So about Babler. After my run Saturday I happily texted SO my news, and he said "You're overdoing it". (ignoring the fact that he got up at 3am for a 100 mile ride...haha).  I replied, I love it too much. He simply said, OK. Hmmmmm so I think for a while. Say that I take his advice seriously, acknowledged the saw one of the attacks, said I haven't found the balance yet.

He said, listen to doctor, and "I don't know much".  I disagreed!! I talk to him because I trust his opinion. So this really got me thinking the rest of the day.

Later on he told me about his new wheel, looks super nice, chatted about how it's not the equipment it's the rider. That's always been my rationale, that and my budget. I said I don't need equipment  - I need to learn to swim. He said, "swim more. kick more. push the water like you mean it. Not like walking sugar." LOL!! Oooh TV says the same thing to me, haha!

Then soon after, I confessed that I'm nervous to swim again. Might be the first time I've said it to him? He replied, "It's OK. Get clear from doctor. Swimming is hard on the heart".

! I told him that's the most encouraging thing I've heard since this started. And that I wanted to hug him. He replied, "You'll be okay. just talk with doctor. swimming does make the heart pump more.

This series of conversations really struck me, it was a bit of push and pull, back and forth advice, but I'm taking it seriously. Hence changing my ride from Babler to TGP.

NUMERICS 8:44 does not include bike commute
BIKE 50.1
RUN 32 miles
BIKE COMMUTE 43.4