Rode with my old pals Katie and Pete, and another guy from HBFC, Ed.

Started out innocently enough, as a Z1-2ish ride, but right around the hour mark, K & P started to hammer out some intervals. I took off with them, but didn't hammer as hard as I could have, due to my need to keep this in Z2 ish.

Ultimately, I let them go, as their goals for this workout were very different from mine. Met up with Ed about an hour and 40 minutes into it and we decided to turn around and go back. Katie and Pete were nowhere to be found.

VERY WINDY AGAIN! I'm getting sick of all this wind. Blowing. Blowing. Blowing. Today it blew 3 bugs into my mouth. I ate them all. Ugh.

OWS @ Crystal Lake. I got off track and got lost several times. Swam to the 1.2 mile turn around in 16 ish minutes... couldn't decide if I should wait there for the rest of the group, or if I should go further... decided to go further... but with nothing to sight off of... I meandered all over the lake... never made it to the actual destination, but I got pretty close, I think. Next time I'll be sure to get better directions!
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Wore my wetsuit. Water was WARM. EEEEWWWW. My legs were hot half way through. Next time I won't wear the wetsuit. Yuck. Nothing like being warm in wet neoprene. Ugh.

Was very careful to keep this in the Z1-2 range. Ran all around the neighborhood... here there and everywhere... was a very nice night!

Look at that... AHR 146... this time last year I could only have an AHR of 146 if I was standing still. Ha! :)

5:15 AM: Up early for a little OWS with the Master's Group. The plan is 2 miles in Crystal Lake. Yay!

Miscellaneous photo day...here are a couple of my favorites, circa 1988:

Me and my friend Michelle (you can see our names on our jackets... how High School!) at the homecoming game our Senior year of High School.

And here's one more... Oh My. This is my friend Suzi and me... the night she threw a small party (complete with a cake!) because I got accepted to the University of Illinois.

Wow. That's enough...
In triathlon training news I have a Recovery Day!

There is a hideous week approaching...

• Tomorrow, Masters AM/1:15 run PM
• Wed, 2 hour bike
• Thursday 1 hour run + core exercises
• Friday Masters
• Saturday hour run + core exercises
• Sunday 5 hour bike ride....

Forgot my %*(#)%(#%^*)%^#^% HRM strap at home. GRRRRRRR.

Ran by RPE. Had to walk at times in order to return my HR to an RPE of Z2. This was supposed to be an easy Z1-2 run. And it was.

Now going to icebath and drink a bottle of Recoverite. A run is a run no matter how small (or slow!) my legs need the ice bath.

Misc Corework
Will log specifics tomorrow. Forgot about this tonight, so did it right before I went off to bed. Yawn!

Windy! Windy! Windy!

Like pushing hard and going 12 MPH against the wind while headed west. Once I turned around, I was going 22 in zone 1, with practically no effort extended. I let the wind blow me home.

Not my greatest bike ride. I had a motivational problem in the morning, so it was rough getting started, and my seat felt uncomfortable the whole way.

This whole thing gets a great big "Meh".
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I have a Garmin file, but I mistakenly recorded this as a multisport workout, and I can't upload it here. Poop.

The Electric slide! Slow dancing! Fast dancing! Medium dancing! The cabbage patch, the white man's overbite and even a little break dancing. Sure. Why not?

I've forgotten how to balance triathlon training and any sort of social life. We had a wedding to go to... so I needed to get my workout in EARLY.

Forgot my camera... so no cute wedding photos. You are all going to have to mentally visualize dumpster cutting a rug. Heh. 

Track workout.

15' z1
5 x 400 @ 2:02
1)1:50:90 A159
2)1:59:89 A163
3)1:59:88 A163
4)1:58:96 A164
5)2:03:49 A162 getting tired.
3' easy run (uhm... v slow jog)
RECOVER COMPLETELY
4 x 400 @ 2:08
1)2:10:83 A154 pacing mistake... slowed too much.
2)2:05:40 A156
3)2:08:38 A157
4)2:05:54 A156
3' walk
10' cool down

I hit every interval except one. two. I am able to hit the short intervals. 200, 400, 800, 1000... I have a harder time with mile repeats.

This was a VERY tough workout... but a great confidence booster. I didn't think I'd realistically be able to hit those intervals repeatedly.

OK, this is cute... we didn't make a move all week without a visor. My brain felt like it was being squeezed from my skull by Monday morning.

And look at Dumpster's handsome profile.

Here is a video from the start, courtesy of Drewb8.

And so I swam...

250 easy free
50 breast
100 back
200 closed fist and pullbuoy
50 OK + 50 Pinky + 50 Index 150 (50 one arm stroke + 50 2 strokes RA/ 2 strokes LA + 50 catchup)
100 back
4 X 400 light pace free, finish on 7:00, go on 7:10

1) 6:41
2) 6:42
3) 6:51 swim cap issue... this would have been faster
4) 6:44

( I apparently am incapable of going slower than 6:51. I tried. I really did. )

200 backstroke
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2800