Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Hitting benchmarks: 5 miler, commute, 1 mile TT

Saturday RUN 5 miles in 55 mins, TGP
Sunday COMMUTE 9.2 miles -- first commute since Feb or March? Or since last year?
Monday COMMUTE 9.2 miles
Tuesday BIKE 4.6 miles to track, then RUN 3 miles

Quick update for now. The Saturday run felt heavy but good. I took some short walk breaks, maybe 4 of them? I'm not very heat adapted, but I think blaming the heat is just an excuse. I'm out of shape!

It felt great to be bike commuting again! My last rides on the bike seemed wobbly and uncoordinated. Less so here, or I'm just accepting the fact that I'm out of practice?

On the Monday commute, LA rode in with me then did a loop of FP, went home and came back to ride home with me. It felt weird to be commuting with someone -- I've never ridden home with anyone like this!! And I'm going to miss being able to do it after he leaves. 

Today's run on the track with BE and LA. BE and I did the 1 mile "open" time trial, BE way ahead of me but that's OK. I'm starting to accept that reality too. I took the first lap too fast at 2 mins then slowed, but the slowing was a drag it was just a re-pacing for the final laps. My cadence was low (166-169-ish) but I wasn't focused on cadence. I just ran.

In other news, the hemifacial spasm of the past 2-3 weeks continues. My 5th? UTI this past weekend. The hips and legs and all else are adapting to the ramp-up. And my butt where I sit on the bike seat will too. Soon I hope!

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