It's a recovery week. Thankyousweetbabyjebus! Today is even a rest day. I went back to bed 3 times this morning. You'd think I could just STAY in bed but this house has dogs and those dogs have needs and those needs have definitive timelines like "TAKE ME TO THE FIELD TO RUN RIGHT NOW IT'S ALREADY 5AM!" So there you go. At least I made those little f*ckers wait for their breakfast until I'd had a post-walk nap.
Given that it's a low-volume training kind of week, I'm doing my best to put triathlon out of my mind. I'm more focused on finding all our gear for my first foray into the wilderness in ~4 years. It offers me a nice break from obsessing over how many bottles to pack for this workout and what route to take for that one and WHERE IS THE FOOD? WHEN IS THE NEXT EATING? OHMYGOD ARE WE OUT OF FOOD? WHAT IF WE RUN OUT OF FOOD? AM I EATING ENOUGH?
Yes, I am eating enough. I think yesterday's adventures in culinary multiplication (2 breakfasts, 2 dinners) singlehandedly vaulted me 5 pounds above my weight at the end of Sunday's long run. Or maybe that's just all the water I've been drinking trying to recover from those two days of training in the heat.
Before I totally forget about triathlon for the week (other than my scheduled workouts of course), I had something I was thinking about today. A friend raised a really good point this week about how much complaining sometimes goes on in triathlon. We choose to do this sport, for fun (and fitness and to feed our competitive spirits and all that), no one is making us do it. For the vast majority of us, it is not our job.
And so it makes it difficult, when you truly love this sport, to see people complaining all the livelong day about the training, about how it's ruining their life, about how they aren't having fun. We all have days where it's not fun and we all get tired. It's supposed to be hard. But if you aren't finding joy in it, if you don't love the sport...why are you doing it?
On that note...if you aren't darn sure you love triathlon, then don't sign up for Ironman. Because it will chew you up and spit you out and make you its bitch - you have to REALLY like this sport to get through all that with your motivation intact. If you are in it for external motivation only - how it will make you look like a badass to others, the cheers of the crowd - you're going to be in trouble because nothing makes you examine your own motivation more than IM training. Cheers from the crowd don't get you out of bed at 5am to swim, or on your bike again when you are still sore and exhausted from the last ride, or through the last miles of a run when you've got nothing left.
The journey of Ironman is in the all the weeks and months of training and life leading up to race day...not just in those 17 hours or less on the course. Race day is a culmination of everything we've accomplished to get ourselves to that point - it's a tough day and it's hard racing but if you didn't take the time to find ways to love the training along the way, what will you love about the racing? If you didn't find love out there in the spaces between suffering...well, that's pretty sad to me, you missed the whole point.
Until next time... I promise the next post will be DOG related with not a word of triathlon!
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Almost an Ironman
Biggest. Training. Weekend. Ever.
I'm still sort of in awe...over the course of 27 hours (starting 8am Saturday), I swam/biked/ran enough mileage to be just 3 miles short of an Ironman. And for whatever reason, our weather turned from mild to HOT HOT HOT just to add some difficulty to it.
On Saturday Kristi and I carpooled early down to Chesbro Reservoir for the Catfish Open Water Swim. We were both doing the 2.4 mile swim, which involved 2 loops around the reservoir.
Representing for Team Aquaphor!
The swim went well! I PRed by 7 minutes over last year (and was 18 minutes faster than my swim at IM AZ) and finally cracked the 1:30s. As soon as I was done, I hustled back to the car to change into my biking gear - it was already getting hot and we had a LONG day ahead of us.
Kris and I set out from Morgan Hill north heading for the Crystal Springs reservoir on the border of San Mateo - the goal was to ride 115 miles.
It was not an easy day on the roads - it very quickly got over 95 degrees and we were going through our liquids quickly. We stopped every 20 miles or so to refill our bottles. We focused on hitting our long 15-20 mile intervals at IM watts and just got through the miles. On the last stretch before the turnaround, I was CRANKY - my head hurt, the headwind was driving me nuts, I was tired of being hot. Thankfully once we turned around, I started feeling better (or that would have been a long 60 miles!).
The scenery up at Crystal Springs was beautiful though!
Totally NOT enjoying the moment but doing a decent job of faking it
Love this!
At the 100-mile mark, Jeff met us and gave us Coke and ice cubes (most of which went straight into my bra). What a pick-me-up! And then we continued south, ticking off the miles back to the car. Our profanity coefficient had been increasing over the course of the ride and it hit an all-time high in the final miles (where I joked we sounded like we had Tourette's - "crotch! ass! shit!" every time we hit a bump in the road).
When we finally reached the car and were done with 115 miles of cycling (after doing a small 1/2mile out and back to reach the full mileage), we still had a short run off the bike to do. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't fun, but it got done. This photo gives no clue as to how completely trashed we were at this point. I think I just repeated "holy shit" over and over for the drive back to my house. Upon arrival, I submerged myself in an ice bath and stared into space while Puck licked salt off my arms until Jeff got home with my dinner.
I did feel better than my long run a couple weeks ago but you know it's not a good sign when you START the run by jogging through people's sprinklers to cool off and you gag on every salt tab you have to take. As with yesterday, the miles clicked off - I felt better on my faster-than-race-pace intervals than I did on the easy recovery ones - and finally I was able to sprawl in the shade on my front lawn and stare at the sky until I could move again.
With an almost-3-hour run in the books, I closed out the weekend with 137.5 miles of swim/bike/run. And finished up my biggest training week ever, as well as the huge 3-week training block! It could not have come any sooner, because I am trashed! Rest week arrives at a perfect time and I plan to focus on recovering (eating, sleeping, etc) and not thinking much about Ironman (I'm even hoping to fit in a small camping trip next weekend). Because after that comes peak week, soon to be followed by TAPER, and I want my focus and motivation on target when it counts.
I hope everyone had a great weekend!
I'm still sort of in awe...over the course of 27 hours (starting 8am Saturday), I swam/biked/ran enough mileage to be just 3 miles short of an Ironman. And for whatever reason, our weather turned from mild to HOT HOT HOT just to add some difficulty to it.
On Saturday Kristi and I carpooled early down to Chesbro Reservoir for the Catfish Open Water Swim. We were both doing the 2.4 mile swim, which involved 2 loops around the reservoir.
Representing for Team Aquaphor!
The swim went well! I PRed by 7 minutes over last year (and was 18 minutes faster than my swim at IM AZ) and finally cracked the 1:30s. As soon as I was done, I hustled back to the car to change into my biking gear - it was already getting hot and we had a LONG day ahead of us.
Kris and I set out from Morgan Hill north heading for the Crystal Springs reservoir on the border of San Mateo - the goal was to ride 115 miles.
It was not an easy day on the roads - it very quickly got over 95 degrees and we were going through our liquids quickly. We stopped every 20 miles or so to refill our bottles. We focused on hitting our long 15-20 mile intervals at IM watts and just got through the miles. On the last stretch before the turnaround, I was CRANKY - my head hurt, the headwind was driving me nuts, I was tired of being hot. Thankfully once we turned around, I started feeling better (or that would have been a long 60 miles!).
The scenery up at Crystal Springs was beautiful though!
Totally NOT enjoying the moment but doing a decent job of faking it
Love this!
At the 100-mile mark, Jeff met us and gave us Coke and ice cubes (most of which went straight into my bra). What a pick-me-up! And then we continued south, ticking off the miles back to the car. Our profanity coefficient had been increasing over the course of the ride and it hit an all-time high in the final miles (where I joked we sounded like we had Tourette's - "crotch! ass! shit!" every time we hit a bump in the road).
When we finally reached the car and were done with 115 miles of cycling (after doing a small 1/2mile out and back to reach the full mileage), we still had a short run off the bike to do. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't fun, but it got done. This photo gives no clue as to how completely trashed we were at this point. I think I just repeated "holy shit" over and over for the drive back to my house. Upon arrival, I submerged myself in an ice bath and stared into space while Puck licked salt off my arms until Jeff got home with my dinner.
After a surprisingly fitful night of sleep, I was up reasonably early today and eager to get on with my long run before it got any hotter. I didn't get a sunburn on the long ride but I did get some nice skin reaction to the grippers on my bike shorts (heat + many hours in shorts).
I did feel better than my long run a couple weeks ago but you know it's not a good sign when you START the run by jogging through people's sprinklers to cool off and you gag on every salt tab you have to take. As with yesterday, the miles clicked off - I felt better on my faster-than-race-pace intervals than I did on the easy recovery ones - and finally I was able to sprawl in the shade on my front lawn and stare at the sky until I could move again.
With an almost-3-hour run in the books, I closed out the weekend with 137.5 miles of swim/bike/run. And finished up my biggest training week ever, as well as the huge 3-week training block! It could not have come any sooner, because I am trashed! Rest week arrives at a perfect time and I plan to focus on recovering (eating, sleeping, etc) and not thinking much about Ironman (I'm even hoping to fit in a small camping trip next weekend). Because after that comes peak week, soon to be followed by TAPER, and I want my focus and motivation on target when it counts.
I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Back in the Saddle Again
We're getting down to the last few big weeks of training and so it was that I found myself awake before dawn on yet another Saturday, prepping my gear and heading out for a long day in the saddle. After killing ourselves climbing steep mountain roads last week, we opted for slightly gentler mountain roads this week.
Nigel (in town for the weekend), George and I met Kristi up in Fremont and ventured up Niles Canyon, through Pleasanton and Livermore, and onto the very quiet, very remote Mines Road, which winds up the back side of Mount Hamilton (the mountain of my birthday ride!).
We were quite happy to start out the ride under cover of fog, because we knew we'd be dealing with major heat out on Mines.
Our last refueling stop before we headed into the boonies
The very beginning of Mines Road. From here it climbs into the hills and it's 28 miles to the next available food/water!
About 8 miles down the road and we've climbed a bit already
Looking ahead on Mines - it just winds up and up this canyon (road on the left)
Later on in the climb, the scenery changed a bit as we entered a pine forest and it looked more like being up in the Sierras. We were surprised to find this on the back side of such a dry mountain.
My favorite part of the ride - forest/trees, a narrow one-lane road and virtually no traffic!
The final steep climb before our descent to The Junction, our turnaround spot and the only source of food/water on this entire road (which continues another ~30 miles to the top of Mt Hamilton)
The view from The Junction, a tiny little biker bar in the middle of nowhere
"You're young and cute, YOU go ask the big mean biker to take our picture"
Climbing back out from the junction meant just a couple more steep uphills for the day, then we'd *mostly* be downhill going back to Fremont (but with headwind!)
It got really HOT at this point - phew!
The good news is, we kept our happy faces on a LOT longer than last week!
Finally equipped with my brand new COMPACT Quarq crank, I found it much easier to spin up the hills without destroying my legs. And as a result, I was able to hold a much more steady wattage throughout the ride, as evidenced by my TrainingPeaks data*.
Last week - watts all over the map (and too many above threshold!)
This week - a bit more stable!
In the end, we rode 109 miles and then ran off the bike quite comfortably! I was much less comfortable getting back on the bike Sunday morning for another 3 hours (it was a double bike shorts kind of day for sure) but it got done and another week is in the books. The countdown continues...just 2 more hard training weeks - separated by a rest week - between us and taper time!
*Don't forget, you can get 15% off a TrainingPeaks premium account and have all these cool data analysis tools too - just use code TPA14!
Nigel (in town for the weekend), George and I met Kristi up in Fremont and ventured up Niles Canyon, through Pleasanton and Livermore, and onto the very quiet, very remote Mines Road, which winds up the back side of Mount Hamilton (the mountain of my birthday ride!).
Our last refueling stop before we headed into the boonies
The very beginning of Mines Road. From here it climbs into the hills and it's 28 miles to the next available food/water!
About 8 miles down the road and we've climbed a bit already
Looking ahead on Mines - it just winds up and up this canyon (road on the left)
Later on in the climb, the scenery changed a bit as we entered a pine forest and it looked more like being up in the Sierras. We were surprised to find this on the back side of such a dry mountain.
My favorite part of the ride - forest/trees, a narrow one-lane road and virtually no traffic!
The final steep climb before our descent to The Junction, our turnaround spot and the only source of food/water on this entire road (which continues another ~30 miles to the top of Mt Hamilton)
The view from The Junction, a tiny little biker bar in the middle of nowhere
"You're young and cute, YOU go ask the big mean biker to take our picture"
Climbing back out from the junction meant just a couple more steep uphills for the day, then we'd *mostly* be downhill going back to Fremont (but with headwind!)
It got really HOT at this point - phew!
The good news is, we kept our happy faces on a LOT longer than last week!
Finally equipped with my brand new COMPACT Quarq crank, I found it much easier to spin up the hills without destroying my legs. And as a result, I was able to hold a much more steady wattage throughout the ride, as evidenced by my TrainingPeaks data*.
Last week - watts all over the map (and too many above threshold!)
This week - a bit more stable!
In the end, we rode 109 miles and then ran off the bike quite comfortably! I was much less comfortable getting back on the bike Sunday morning for another 3 hours (it was a double bike shorts kind of day for sure) but it got done and another week is in the books. The countdown continues...just 2 more hard training weeks - separated by a rest week - between us and taper time!
*Don't forget, you can get 15% off a TrainingPeaks premium account and have all these cool data analysis tools too - just use code TPA14!
Monday, July 16, 2012
Worries
It's amazing how you can take one relatively adaptable athlete, add Ironman training, get a little less than optimal sleep, and mix in one small problem and it becomes a world crisis.
Case in point: Last week, I dropped my bike off at the shop to have a Quarq power meter installed. For a number of reasons I decided to switch to Quarq, the biggest being that now I can switch wheels without losing my ability to ride with power. Anyway, I was supposed to get the bike back that night so that I could do my scheduled ride. The shop called me in the afternoon to tell me my derailleur was not compatible with the crank and they didn't have one in stock that was...it would be an extra day to get one.
OK, adapt and overcome. *breath* Email coach and ask permission to move the bike to the next day.
Done, relax.
The next day I waited anxiously for the call that my bike was ready. When it came, I bolted out of my meeting and raced to the shop. Where they had trouble synching the Quarq with my Garmin (you need a "head unit" to read the data and my Garmin was the intended unit). The guy tried a few things, played with the battery, and suggested I go home and update my Garmin software and then it should work.
Insert 90 minutes of frustration at home as I update software, do a hard reboot on the Garmin, read numerous online forums, and finally give up in frustration because nothing I try will get my Quarq to show up as operational.
I'm fairly sure if you saw me that night, you'd have thought someone had died, it was such a world crisis to me at that moment. I had to remind myself, you can still RIDE the bike this weekend for your big workouts, you will live if you don't have power because the Quarq needs replacing.
On Friday I went back to the shop yet again to bring them the bike and ask that they sort out the problem. That afternoon they called me back - all synched up and working fine. What was the problem? A dead battery in the Quarq.
*drops dead*
I stressed all night and day over THAT?!
And this is why I need to eat and sleep enough during heavy training...it's far too easy to let stress take over my life otherwise! All's well that ends well and my weekend workouts were fabulous- more about them in the next post though!
Case in point: Last week, I dropped my bike off at the shop to have a Quarq power meter installed. For a number of reasons I decided to switch to Quarq, the biggest being that now I can switch wheels without losing my ability to ride with power. Anyway, I was supposed to get the bike back that night so that I could do my scheduled ride. The shop called me in the afternoon to tell me my derailleur was not compatible with the crank and they didn't have one in stock that was...it would be an extra day to get one.
OK, adapt and overcome. *breath* Email coach and ask permission to move the bike to the next day.
Done, relax.
The next day I waited anxiously for the call that my bike was ready. When it came, I bolted out of my meeting and raced to the shop. Where they had trouble synching the Quarq with my Garmin (you need a "head unit" to read the data and my Garmin was the intended unit). The guy tried a few things, played with the battery, and suggested I go home and update my Garmin software and then it should work.
Insert 90 minutes of frustration at home as I update software, do a hard reboot on the Garmin, read numerous online forums, and finally give up in frustration because nothing I try will get my Quarq to show up as operational.
I'm fairly sure if you saw me that night, you'd have thought someone had died, it was such a world crisis to me at that moment. I had to remind myself, you can still RIDE the bike this weekend for your big workouts, you will live if you don't have power because the Quarq needs replacing.
On Friday I went back to the shop yet again to bring them the bike and ask that they sort out the problem. That afternoon they called me back - all synched up and working fine. What was the problem? A dead battery in the Quarq.
*drops dead*
I stressed all night and day over THAT?!
And this is why I need to eat and sleep enough during heavy training...it's far too easy to let stress take over my life otherwise! All's well that ends well and my weekend workouts were fabulous- more about them in the next post though!
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Run Run Run, That Girl's Gonna Run
It was not always pretty but I wrapped up the week with my nearly-4-hour bike-long run brick today. My rear end was not all that enthusiastic about getting on the bike again this morning but my legs did alright holding steady Z2 power for most of it. And then it was time for a 2.5 hr run! Overall I'm pleased with the very steady pacing I managed, averaging my goal race pace throughout, even if I felt like a dying animal in the heat towards the end. I stopped a couple times to use the restroom, refill my water bottle, say hi to people I knew, stand under a tree and try to recollect myself...OK, that might be more than a couple times altogether then, huh? In any event, my wonderful husband rode out to find me and biked alongside me for my last half-hour. I was kind of over it at that point and not in a talkative mood but it was nice to have someone to get me through the end. I walked straight in the front door and got in the bathtub to run cold water on my legs and got Jeff to add ice.
For the most part I remembered to stop my Garmin every time I had to pant in the shade/drink/chat but thanks to a new TrainingPeaks feature the ambassadors have been testing out in beta (coming to your premium account soon!) I could have edited and corrected my data to remove all those stops from my run workout.
Near my turnaround point, I stopped to use the restroom, so there is a gap in the data where no readings apply (selected below).
From there, I select Cut from the top left.
And voila, all cleaned up!
What a fun feature to have when our technology sometimes fails us, or plain old human error causes a problem!
And with that, one big week of Ironman training is done...I may be living in my compression tights until my legs feel less trashed! They'd better recover fast though, I have a huge bike-focused week ahead. Have a wonderful week!
For the most part I remembered to stop my Garmin every time I had to pant in the shade/drink/chat but thanks to a new TrainingPeaks feature the ambassadors have been testing out in beta (coming to your premium account soon!) I could have edited and corrected my data to remove all those stops from my run workout.
Near my turnaround point, I stopped to use the restroom, so there is a gap in the data where no readings apply (selected below).
And voila, all cleaned up!
What a fun feature to have when our technology sometimes fails us, or plain old human error causes a problem!
And with that, one big week of Ironman training is done...I may be living in my compression tights until my legs feel less trashed! They'd better recover fast though, I have a huge bike-focused week ahead. Have a wonderful week!
Saturday, July 7, 2012
I Like Hills But Maybe Not Mountains?
All rested up from the 1/2IM 2 weeks ago and time to get back to riding looooong. Given the heat in the valley, we headed up to the Santa Cruz mountains hoping for a little bit of relief from the breeze off the coast. 80 miles and 7000 feet of climbing later...
Early in the day, when climbing was a cute novelty...7 miles going up Highway 9 from Saratoga to Skyline (the road that runs along the ridge atop the mountains)
At the top of the first big climb discussing...something?
Scenic overlook so we had to stop
Down in the redwood forest of Big Basin State Park
Twin Specialized Transition Pros - mine and Kristi's - while we filled up our bottles again
More trees and hills...climbing out of the state park
Downtown Boulder Creek - another water stop before the long climb back up to the ridge line
Bear Creek Road was where the fun ended. Climbing 3000 feet back to the top of the mountain on fairly steep roads will do that to you...
Totally faking any enthusiasm at this point. We'd all split up on the climb and I was trying to get through the last few miles on Bear Creek
Not a bad view up there though!
Yeah, we're all feeling the same way about these hills at this point!
Jeff had been feeling poorly and had gone ahead to finish the ride while I waited to meet up with George and Kristi who took a wrong turn. We'd expected he was done and gone so I completely cracked up when we arrived back at the top of Highway 9 and he was sitting there eating a hot dog off a food cart!
The rest of the ride was very nice - all downhill! No photos because we were finally going faster than 6mph. It was pretty much the slowest long ride I've ever done...a character builder, I guess! I do like hills but miles and miles of climbing steep roads...I could probably do without a big mountain anytime soon. We managed to get in 2 climbs of similar length to the IM Canada climbs - 7 miles and 15 miles - but our climbs were 2x as steep as the ones on the course. I hope that means race day will feel like a nice uphill spin by comparison!
An overview of the route
And the elevation chart
Kristi and I managed to knock out our runs off the bike in the now 90+ degree heat and then we were DONE. I think she'll be doing the same thing I am tonight - refueling and rehydrating for long run Sunday!
Ah, Ironman training...the highs and lows...
Early in the day, when climbing was a cute novelty...7 miles going up Highway 9 from Saratoga to Skyline (the road that runs along the ridge atop the mountains)
At the top of the first big climb discussing...something?
Scenic overlook so we had to stop
Down in the redwood forest of Big Basin State Park
Twin Specialized Transition Pros - mine and Kristi's - while we filled up our bottles again
More trees and hills...climbing out of the state park
Downtown Boulder Creek - another water stop before the long climb back up to the ridge line
Bear Creek Road was where the fun ended. Climbing 3000 feet back to the top of the mountain on fairly steep roads will do that to you...
Totally faking any enthusiasm at this point. We'd all split up on the climb and I was trying to get through the last few miles on Bear Creek
Not a bad view up there though!
Yeah, we're all feeling the same way about these hills at this point!
Jeff had been feeling poorly and had gone ahead to finish the ride while I waited to meet up with George and Kristi who took a wrong turn. We'd expected he was done and gone so I completely cracked up when we arrived back at the top of Highway 9 and he was sitting there eating a hot dog off a food cart!
The rest of the ride was very nice - all downhill! No photos because we were finally going faster than 6mph. It was pretty much the slowest long ride I've ever done...a character builder, I guess! I do like hills but miles and miles of climbing steep roads...I could probably do without a big mountain anytime soon. We managed to get in 2 climbs of similar length to the IM Canada climbs - 7 miles and 15 miles - but our climbs were 2x as steep as the ones on the course. I hope that means race day will feel like a nice uphill spin by comparison!
An overview of the route
And the elevation chart
Kristi and I managed to knock out our runs off the bike in the now 90+ degree heat and then we were DONE. I think she'll be doing the same thing I am tonight - refueling and rehydrating for long run Sunday!
Ah, Ironman training...the highs and lows...
Friday, July 6, 2012
Stayin' Alive
Wow, you put your head down and get busy training and suddenly nearly 2 weeks go by without a blog post! I'm still alive, still training, all going well (so much for the saying that blogs only go quiet when you get injured).
After SVLC, I had a recovery week that was combined with a killer week at work, so I was just busy with meetings and trying to get my body rested and ready for this week - the start of the *big* Ironman training block. Despite the mid-week holiday, work has continued to dominate my life this week but I've managed to get the training done too. Among the highlights:
After SVLC, I had a recovery week that was combined with a killer week at work, so I was just busy with meetings and trying to get my body rested and ready for this week - the start of the *big* Ironman training block. Despite the mid-week holiday, work has continued to dominate my life this week but I've managed to get the training done too. Among the highlights:
- Getting to the pool Monday morning to see it set up long course meant my 4000 yard swim became a 4000 meter swim. Bonus yards! And...a long time in the pool!
- A double-bike on Tuesday sandwiched around a long day of work meetings and dog chauffeuring. Knowing I had a run off the 2nd bike, I had to eat very carefully during the day. Fiber, I miss you!
- On the 4th of July, I knocked out my easy run early, then did a 2.5 hr roundtrip to pass Stanley off to his handler for a dog show weekend. I got back in time for lunch with Jeff, who had just wrapped up his long ride, and still needed to do my easy ride - so I rode to a brewpub and he met me there with the dogs. I ate this. And I still had a swim to do that night.
- Thursday we slept in until the luxurious hour of 6:30 (Stanley serves as the 5am alarm clock around here and with him out of town...). After a full day at work (doesn't anyone take vacations on holiday weeks???), I met Kristi up at Stevens Creek reservoir for the local Splash & Dash. Run and swim warmups, race a 1.5k swim/5k trail run (the fastest I've done this run course!), run warmdown...and then it was 8pm and I was starving! To make up for another day of careful eating (hey, gummy worms are low fiber!), I had tons and tons of kale for dinner to appease for my sins.
- And despite the late evening, I was in the pool this morning by 5:30am for masters.
The best part is, I'm only halfway through my training hours for the week. TrainingPeaks has a big weekend still waiting for me. And it's only week one of a 3-week build! So if you're wondering where I went at any point in the next few weeks, hopefully I'm just chugging along with training and not stranded on the side of Bear Creek Road in the Santa Cruz mountains, waiting for salvation from the toothless hillbillies.
Speaking of TrainingPeaks, they had some really nifty updates just a couple weeks ago. The Saved Workout Searches is my personal favorite...it's fun to look up all my long runs of a certain distance range and see how my pace has progressed over the years. They have all been even faster this year so it's obviously an encouraging trend! :) We'll see if it holds up in the really long ones over the next month.
Have a great weekend!
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