I was supposed to have run 15 miles yesterday. But I had slept poorly, and slept in. Then ran a bunch of errands. I just didn’t feel like running at all. I finally start running in the evening. I managed to get 9 miles in.
So this morning, I got up and ran another 6 miles, to complete the 15. But then I was scheduled to ride my bike for two and half hours today. So I headed out for my ride. I did a 20 mile hilly backroad ride to a Burger King and got lunch. Then I rode home, stopping at a couple garage sales along the way. According to MotionBased, I did about 2450 feet of climbing over the 40.5 miles. I have a century ride coming up in two weeks. That will be interesting.
Due to the holiday, I didn’t have my normal Sunday evening karate class. I love karate, but it is nice to have a day off every once in a while.
I am scheduled to run intervals tomorrow. But I may sneak a short ride in tomorrow. Maybe down to Subway for subs and back. The intervals are ugly. 1 mile warmup, 1200m,1000m,800m,600m,400m, 1 mile cooldown. I hate 1200m intervals. And am not real big on 1000m intervals either. Oh well. Gotta do what I gotta do.
Only 16 weeks to the Louisville Ironman! I have taken it kind of easy for the last couple weeks following the Boston Marathon. Then I had a cold for a week and a half. I am still recovering from that somewhat. But now I am into my Ironman training schedule. I combined the Furman FIRST marathon schedule, with an Ironman training schedule. My goal is simply to finish.
My schedule today had my riding for 2:15. I went out and did a 30 mile ride. It was a hilly out and back ride, with a stop at McDonalds in the middle for breakfast. It was nice and sunny when I got up. But it turned cloudy almost the instant I stepped out the door. The 15 miles out was nice. I was cruising along and averaged a little over 17mph. But while I was in the McDonalds, it got colder, and windy. The ride back home was into a cold headwind the whole way, and I spent most of it in the lowest gears. It was like a nearly 15 mile uphill ride.
When I got home, I was under 2 hours. So I jumped on my fluid trainer, and spun for another 18 minutes, to make up the difference.
I looked up my route on Bikely.com, and found I did almost 1150 feet on climbing in the 30 miles.