Consistency Equals Success (Page 17)

Thanks for your comments guys!  However, in the pool I have an unfair advantage by being able to do flip turns against the wall which does not happen in OWS :-)

Jim and Lisa, congrats on your HM races, well done!  Drew congrats on completing your 2nd tri, exciting!

Adding last workouts and a story from an unfortunate event, but happy that I can report it here!  Friday, day off :-), Saturday 15 mile run with lots of climbing (longest run this year since my ITB Injury, but doing better!).  Sunday a 30 mile mountain bike ride with tough climbing.  Today 1hr OWS

So for the unfortunate event, I was out on a mountain bike ride by myself in Lake Atitlan and was going through a tough long climb on a fire road going around a volcano while trying to reach the town of San Pedro la Laguna.  It was a lonely road, but I passed a police car on the climb and thought it was ok until after about 5km of climbing and 1km from passing the police car I was ambushed by a man with a hood and held at gun point.  At first sight I could not believe what was happening and he demanded that I handed him my money.  I told him to relax that I would cooperate and took the money out from my camelback and handed it too him,  He then took my camelback and started going through it demanding my phone and camera.  I told him I did not have a phone since it was in the back pocket of my shirt and not in the camelback.  He took away my Garmin (that one hurt and I felt like asking to take a last peek at my total ascent up to that point :-), he also took my waterproof iPod and then saw that I had my phone behind my shirt.  At that point he tried to grab it and I saw that his gun seemed home made *tubes with duct tape) which either it was fake or not really a good one.  Short story, I reacted by pulling my camelback and phone away from him, yelling that his gun was not real and that I was going to come back with the police to get him.  In those split seconds I jumped on my bike and flew down hill without looking back until I reached the police car.  I told them what had happened and they rushed to look for the guy without any luck.

I then rode 15 miles back home, hughed my family and told them what had happened and then had a beer to relax.

I know that my reaction was not ideal, but you never know how you are going to react in those type of situations and it is scary, but frustrating at the same time. I obviously took a chance, but fortunately I have a huge guardian angel and can now share my story here with the group - very thankful to be able too.  At the same time, I'm not going to stop going out because of this incident and will continue to enjoy going outdoors, just being a little more careful as to where do I ride by myself.  

Gabe 29 49:05:15 
Jim 27 27:37:05 
Lisa 24 30:02:12 
Mitch 25 29:40:01 
Dennis 21 30:18:12 
Jackie 20 34:16:51 
Mark Z 18 25:03:00 
Brian 18 18:22:00 
Barry 16 13:02:19 
Drew 14 13:17:19 
Mark H 11 11:50:00 
Joe: 10 7:18:00 
Kate 07 13:38:18 
Bruno 06 6:55:00