05.03.2019 Frisky Friday Training

I ran 8-1/2 miles this morning. It was fast and felt great.

I will do a 1500 yds swim at lunch.

Have a great day. 

Edited by BlueBoy26 2019-05-03 9:39 AM

Two hours on the trainer this morning. Ugh.

Glad to hear Kim’s well. I just found out another virtual acquaintance was in a bad bike accident. Glad it is nothing like that!

Big news is that I RAN today (well, jogged would be a more accurate description) for the first time since February 16. (Really--not a single step since then.) I have been walking a lot, though, 1-2 hours pretty much every single day except the day of surgery and day after, and hitting the bike trainer with some degree of intensity 6X a week since late March, so at least my legs are not totally shot.

Total of 30 minutes of running within 40 minutes of run-walk around a bunch of sports fields at the park. Followed by a 45 minute trainer ride.

For now, screw brick runs. I probably fell in the race because my legs were too tired from biking to "brake" after I tripped--56 miles on a rough, hilly, windy course on a poorly fitting rental bike that was killing my back and girly stuff at that. I don't really recommend Challenge Wanaka to anyone--just take a nice trip, enjoy the hiking and wine tasting, and do the respective legs of the race solo or with a buddy on two or three different days at a leisurely pace to enjoy the scenery! What I should have done instead of train the whole winter just to injure myself and ruin a whole season.

I'm not planning any triathlons this year anyway at this point, so going to avoid brick runs until/unless I do enter one, and use my runs as warmup for trainer rides.

Edited by Hot Runner 2019-05-03 5:55 PM

16 easy miles on the bike this morning at 7:30.

Chattahoochee Challenge 70.3 tomorrow morning at 7:30 am.

Happy training!

Good luck! I was supposed to be racing St. George 70.3 tomorrow. Maybe next year?