Past few days

Been a few days since an update so here's what's going on.
Thursday I managed to squeeze in a run at lunch. Just 35 minutes and 4.5 miles. I think I just tried to keep it at 8.0 for the run until I warmed down.
Thursday night didn't do anything but coach.

Friday morning got in a swim. I actually got to throw on the paddles and forget about my legs for a while. At least I had some speed with the paddles. Now I have to find a way to have speed without them.

Headed to the gym at lunch and got in 40 minutes of weights and added some more leg work.

Saturday I went out for a run. Excited to have the new watch like the one Jason has, the Garmin Forerunner 305. I finally got to see my heart rate while I was running. Well, I had to hold the watch real close to my face to see the heart rate because that's so damn small but it's great to see the speed and distance during the run. Too bad I hit start/stop rather than lap at one point and didn't realize it until two miles later when I hit the button again. Oh well, now I know better. It was about mid-30's and very windy. On part of the run loop I felt great! I'd look down and see that I was running 6:52-6:45's. Oh yeah, that was down hill with the wind at my back. Then on the otherside of the loop while I was going up hill with the 30 mph winds in my face I was running at nearly 9:00. That sucked. I didn't feel real good and it made me rethink my goal of running 7:30's back to running 8:00's at St. Anthony's. It just hurt running. But there were lessons learned, like my dinner the night before was a brownie and a piece of bread. Not real good but I didn't get home until 10:00 so I wanted some empty calories and then wanted to get to bed.
After the run I sat around at practice because there were enough coaches. Then went for a ride with Mike. This time we actually saw some other cyclists. We had the opportunity to pass some people and we certainly surprised some people. Lesson number two for the day was when the wind is working with you don't work at 100% because you're eventually going to have to come back into it. So after warm-up as we went to turn on the 20 mile course that I like to hammer there was a guy all decked out riding a Trek TTX and he wanted to ride with us. I told him to grab Mike's wheel and hang on because we were about to go. I quickly set the pace at 25.2 (remember the wind was with me) and after about 30 seconds Mike was the only one hanging on. I got to learn how accurate my computer was because I had the watch also tracking my speed and they were pretty close. 7.4 miles into the ride we were AVERAGING 26.4mph then hit the turn onto 44 which is usually pretty fast. The wind started swirling and we were getting knocked around, when we turned around we started to really feel some resistance. Once we got back onto 118 it was like someone was standing infront of my bike with their hands pressing against my handle bars and their feet were firmly on the ground. I kept trying to press on as hard as I could but the lack of nutrition and the 7 mile morning run were catching up to me so I sat up and shut it down right at mile 15. Average through there was 21.8 according to the watch, 21.9 on my bike computer. Good thing I didn't have deep dish rims on that ride or I'd be updating the blog right now from a hospital bed because I was getting knocked around out there. We finished out the loop for a total of 25 miles on the day with just over a 20.5 average. I guess that's not bad but I was kind of discouraged. This week I need to make up for the lack of bike training the past few weeks since coaching started back up. I'll shoot for four hours this week and then two hours next week before heading to FL.

One thing I really have to do is hop back on the nutrition bandwagon and stop eating nothing but carbs for dinner. I really need to find some more energy foods and stick with that.

Tomorrow I'll pick back up with a swim/lift/bike and I'm looking forward to getting all that in and hopefully rallying through a solid week of training.