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Tuesday - May 5

Bike

1h 52m 47s
37.47 miles
19.93 Mi/hr

Hammerfest! So. Much. Fun. Rides like this make me want to be a roadie. This course has some good hills in it. Nothing sooper long or brutally steep, but there are quite a few and they are spread throughout the route. Hung on with the front group and had a blast.

We hit 35.5 miles at 1:45 so we were over 20 for the average before cooling down.

Busy day of work will be followed by the Tri Wis Lannon group ride.

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Monday - May 4

Run

20m
2.25 miles
08m 53s /Mi

Est. time and distance. Ran short from the Y after swimming. Shin splint acted up a bit. Other than that, it actually felt great to run. Going to continue to lay off the run with hopes of still being able to do the Green Bay half mary on the 17th.

Swim

45m
2400.00 yards
01m 53s /100 yards

WU: 6x100
Main: 3x500 steady
CD: 2x150 pull

Felt pretty dang good in the water.

What a day so far... Sooper busy. It is 1:47 p.m. and I am finally eating lunch. That lunchtime swim ain't gonna happen. Run tonight, maybe a trip to the pool too but not sure I'll be able to squeeze it in.

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Sunday - May 3

Bike

1h 57m
32.75 miles
16.79 Mi/hr

FANTASTIC day for a ride. A bit warmer than yesterday, sun is out, a bit of wind but not horrible.

And that makes it a 100 mile weekend!

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Saturday - May 2

Bike

2h 37m
43.50 miles
16.62 Mi/hr

Woot! IMWI course with the BT gang. Good times.

It is 11:30 p.m. and I just got up from a four hour nap... I'm not good at getting up before 5:30 a.m. Had beers at the UW terrace after riding and by the time I got home from that I wanted nothing more than to sleep. Now I have to figure out what my best strategy to stay on a normal sleep schedule is. Great to see everyone today.

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Friday - May 1

Bike

1h 24m
23.80 miles
17.00 Mi/hr

Almost sunk into the couch but got pulled out onto the road by a friend. Great night for a ride.

Swim

32m
1400.00 yards
02m 17s /100 yards

Swim: Speed day
wu: 400 continuous. last 50 in each 100 is kick
main: 8 x 100 EBEH (each 100 = 25Easy, 25Build, 25Easy, 25 Hard)
cd: 200

Chatted with Matt Amman who gave me some tips on my form. Really made a difference! Felt pretty dang good in the water today, especially after adjusting my arm positioning thanks to Matt's suggestions. Or maybe it was all the extra rest between sets while gabbing. Whatever!

Easy ride tonight. Madison tomorrow in the sooper early a.m. to ride the IMWI course with BT peeps. Woot!

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Thursday - April 30

Run

32m 13s
3.50 miles
09m 12s /Mi

Suck.

Planned to run for an hour, but shut it down due to shin splints in the left leg. Going to have to back way off on the running for a week or so, I think. Gotta get this healed up so it doesn't get worse.

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Wednesday - April 29

Run

45m
4.00 miles
11m 15s /Mi

Tri Wis hill workout.

One mile wu.
8 x .25 mile hill circuit
One mile cd

That was hard!

Swim

32m
1650.00 yards
01m 56s /100 yards

Swim: Race-specific
wu: 4 x 75, last 25 in each is backstroke.
main: 3 x 400, 1 is RPE 3, 2 is RPE 4, 3 is RPE 5
cd: 150 easy

Felt average. Gabbed with tri wi peeps between sets. That last 400 was tough though!

So far today:

wake up
rush out of the house
slim fast in the car on the way to the office
big ass black coffee from sbux
meeting about ill conceived new appraisal law going into effect 5/1 (damn you Elliott Spitzer!)
work
cold pizza snack
work
banana snack
go to Y and do swim workout per training plan at lunch
subway five. five dollar. five dollar footlong (chx on wht w/lots o veggies)
Chipotle veggie burrito

Anticipated:

work
diet coke
apple snack
work
cold pizza snack
Tri Wis hill workout (makeup for run skipped yesterday)
shower
unknown dinner
sit on couch
yogurt with choco chips and nuts snack
bed

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.