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Bike is toast. Just a bunch of swim/run for me now. Going to the pool for lap swim. Why is lap swim only an hour and open swim is all day? Not that I can swim for an hour, but with travel and waiting for a lane I usually only get 20-30 minutes (which is plenty). I'll add a 2 mile run.

Friday I got a nice 2 mi. run/ 600 swim/ 2 mi. run. The runs were very hard, especially the second, with some good elevation changes. I love pulling up to the water all huffing then blasting out my swim set, then putting my shoes back on and running past the bewildered shore dwellers. They are all "too cool" teens and 20 y.o. sneaking beers by the lake. I know they snicker at me, because it would be the same thing I'd do if some skinny idiot pulled up with his swim jammers on under his running shorts and started lapping the shore line. If I was 15 years younger I'd be there showing off my underage drinking, flirting, and ridiculing strangers too. 

--My coworker admitted to throwing bottles, loose change, words, etc... at bikers on the road. I tried to explain to him how dangerous biking was without people intentionally trying to kill them. 

Lovey - keep on healing!  Great that you can start weight bearing.  I would be going absolutely crazy by now. I have a friend, who when she was in a cast with a broken foot, rented a wheel chair and would "race" around the bike trial. Said it was a fantastic upper body work out.

Steph, I have been deep water running in a therapy pool. (Nice warm water!)  I have belt and recently purchased "water runners". They kinda look like short snow boards that you strap on your feet to create more drag.  Have to work really hard to move those suckers through the water.  

Happy weekend everyone!

Nothing like a little jury duty to mess up an entire week.

Steph – nice swim workout.  I like the variety, and I feel your pain in the water–swallowing on the weak side. blech

Lovey-nice to hear from you.  Glad to hear you’re on the mend. 

Amybecca-LUV your blog! Great photos & congrats on all your successes.  What a fantastic place you live (though I hope you’re not affected by the fires!).  My son goes to school in Greeley, and we try to visit a few times a year, even last Feb when there was 2 ft of snow! (WTH??)   When we win the lottery, there’s a little place in Loveland with our name on it. haha

Susie-fugeddaboudit!  I decided so late to volunteer I barely made it myself!  I needed to participate/spectate in some fashion to a)scope the race for next year; and b)give my slacking mojo a kick start!   I did not hear that the swim course was long, but I did hear that the bike course was way short (like 4 miles) because of the construction related re-route.  And the run course seemed a little messy – very confusing if you missed the 1 sign, and several near collisions due to the Oly/Sprint courses splitting and then merging back together.  Some colorful language ensued, lol.  And your masters class sounds awesome, exactly the reason I joined LT in the first place.  Sadly, the ‘coach’ at VH seems to prefer to assign really long, complicated sets and then go sit in the office.  :p

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Terri

Having a hard time giving all 3 sports equal attention.  My running sucks so I've been really concentrating on that but I'm neglecting the bike. I'm thinking maybe I should just follow a plan.

OH YEAH-----Yesterday afternoon I turned BOTH my ankles on a trail run. I was approaching a group of hikers and was about to give the "Hey! Hi, on your left" call, when 'snap' goes the foot hinge. Instead of saying "Hi" I said "YOOWWCH" at which point they all turned around and I hobbled past them like nothing was wrong. I just kept running along the trail (to swim in the pond, of course) and five minutes later I turned the other one. Left is swollen nicely, hurts a bunch, but ran (and swam) on it again today. I like to run/swim/run. 

Ice, ice, ice, and RICE. And some much needed recovery yoga. 

I know, it's hard to find pools deep enough. The therapy pool I use has a little (and I mean little, about 5 by 12) section of 6 feet deep.  If there are a couple of "older" ladies using the floating noodles, it get a bit crowded.   One thing about water running.  It's VERY BORING!.  I bought an inexpensive water proof MP3 player to help pass the time.  

What's up for the weekend? Races? Long Bike run Bricks?

I'm thinking of going out for a HM in Sept. Additional specific training starts Saturday.

600ish yard continuous OW swim yesterday. Practiced sighting and turning around an imaginary buoy. Found a great rhythm with breathing every 2 strokes to get more O2, with some 3rd stroke breathing thrown in here and there to help relax. The only time I broke form was to tell a dog to stop swimming after me. 

Found some swim goggles while cleaning a restroom at work. SCORE!!

Hey Steph, Way to go on the Tri! 

I actually got in a couple of OWS in chilly Lake Michigan this week.  Since I can't run but now can bike, I've been trying to ride a lot.  I alternate between my road bike and granny bike so I don't stress my ankle. So far have been riding every day, even in this heat wave we've been experiencing here in Chi-town.  I'm about to head out again.  Time for another sweat fest - Love it!  I like the heat, although I will be crying when the electric bill comes.

Just wondering what you guys think I should do...

Life got in the way of training the past two weeks. We are renting and there was an apartment fire in our building (and the bomb squad then had to remove thermite from the destroyed unit! The mad scientist in the apartment is still in the burn unit). Basically, this lit a fire (literally) under us to get out of this apartment and I've been househunting like crazy with a 1 and 3 year old in tow. AWESOME! Not a ton of time for training, plus with my state on fire, it's ridiculously smokey and hard to breathe outside. This week was supposed to be my peak training week, with two weeks of taper before my July 22 tri. I'll finish it - I'm not concerned about that at this point - but do I go back and follow my taper schedule even though I didn't peak? (It's not like I'm competing against anyone but myself, but I'm not sure how to resume training!).