Okay, the plan is to take today and Friday off from training to let the knee and right calf and hamstring to recover.  They were only very short endurance runs, so I don't believe it will hurt me too much.

Knee feels a little wobbly today.  I'm glad I got a pretty easy rest of the week for training.  Only a 30min run and two 20min runs.  Should be a good break for the legs.

 

Woohoo!  A day off!  Good timing, because my legs feel wasted today.

My half-mary plan asked for an 1:15 run, I made up something different

This is more about the preparation, because the ride was bad for me...

So the story starts at 3 am, as I make it home after a great night of fun.  I set my alarm for 7 am, so that I may get up early, make something to eat, drink some coffee and make sure I have everything for the 9 am Roswell Ride.

I wake up at 8 am...

Panic mode sets in, as I only have 30 minutes until I need to be out on the road (I live in Buckhead).  I throw on some bike clothes with a windbreaker vest underneath, and then I make the search for the rest of my cold weather gear.  I can't find anything!  Where has all my crap gone.  Well no time to waste, so I popped my bike off the trainer and switched out my back wheel.  I grabbed my cleats and walked down to the car and took off. 

Well I get half way out of my complex when I realize that I own three helmets, and not one of them is in my car... So I u-turn it back to my place, run up to the apartment grab my helmet and make one last search for the rest of my cold weather stuff.  I grabbed a long sleeve running top, because that would work well enough.

I make it up to the Park after chowing on a clif bar on the way there, and I'm the first one to arrive?  Hmm... I guess I may have been a little early and I was almost hoping that the ride got canceled so I could go back home and go to bed.  Well, too late to leave now, because Doug just pulled up.  Needless to say I was a little worried that our pace would be a little bit faster than I wanted.  At least he was representing in his UGA jersey.  I then proceeded to ask him  if he had a pump, because in my mad rush I forgot to inflate my rear tire I haven't used in months.  Unfortunately he did not bring a pump himself. 

Well it is after 9 and Justin has not shown up yet (had to put that in here ).  He rolls up and puts on about 6 layers of clothing, I lost count .  Anyways, I asked him if he might have a pump, and his response is no.  This is just not shaping up to be a very good ride for me.  I decided to ride out on my partially inflated tires as they had enough air to not pinch the tubes or shred the tires. I believe we finally roll out at 9:10ish.

We start out on the ride and the pace is already something I can't handle after a long night.  I decide to try and keep up the best I can.  Doug and Justin are fast!  I appreciate them hanging back a couple times just so I can keep a decent pace.  Doug was even nice enough to let me lead a couple of the first hills.  After that though I was toast.  I mean I had to drop to the third chainring a couple of times, and I've never had to do that on a Roswell Ride before!  I could not keep up with those two.  I believe there was at least two points where I thought I might throw up.  I decide to cut the ride about 2-3 miles shorter than what Justin and Doug did.

I get to my car and rack the bike and swear to myself not to party the night before a morning ride.  Bad news.  Justin and Doug roll in about 10 minutes later, and we chit chat.  They head out for the run and I say "see ya later", because my body is done for the day.

Now I get to go work a Georgia Tech volleyball match versus Florida State, and men's basketball game versus some no-name team.  This will be a long day, and a good lesson!