With all this morning stuff this week I knew it was going to catch up to me. I didn't realize the thing that was going to catch up was my sleep cycle. Wide awake at 5:30. So I tried to figure out if I should stay in bed or start my day. 15 minutes later I decided it would be best to start my day. So I grabbed my gym stuff and headed off to the gym hoping to run for an hour before I had to be at PC to coach at 8:30. I rolled into the gym about 6:15 all fired up and ready to go. I was a little concerned when I only saw two cars. Turns out my gym opens at 7:00. I tried to find their hours on-line but they weren't there. Doh! So I sat there trying to figure out how long I'd have to run if I waited until 7:00. Not long enough because I wanted an hour. So back home I went to dig up my cold weather running gear. (It was only 26 degrees at that time). After finally finding all my gear I headed to PC. I figured I'd just park there and run before workout. Unfortunately since all my watches died at the same time I had to pull off my cycling computer and throw it in my pocket so I'd know what time it was. I got to PC and started running at 7:30 so I figured I'd get 50 minutes in. I basically just did 3 loops around campus:
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I felt awesome when I was starting off. Turns out I just held a nice steady 7:30 mile pace through six miles and then warmed down nice and easy to take it to just under 6.5 miles in 50 minutes. Maybe I was a little faster but I definitely had a lot more in the tank. I was just enjoying being out there breaking in my new sneakers which are now blood stained from ripping apart my ankles. Guess I should invest in higher socks. Oh well, now my sneakers just look meaner.
Did some stretching at the pool and showered and changed up and figured I was done with working out for the day because it was too cold to get out on my bike since the clothes I would normally wear on the bike were now drenched in sweat from my run. But Mike kept pushing the issue so we hit a bike shop with a clearance on winter gear and I picked up a warmer top. The big debate was how hard to work since I just ran and Mike was a little sore. It was much colder than we expected once we got on the bikes but I don't have many opportunities to get out there before St. Anthony's so I just blocked out the cold and after warm-up just decided to get down to business. After the warm-up we went through a hard 15 mile stretch and delt with the wind. I was totally in the zone through the first part of the ride. Just down in the bars everything was clicking and I felt worlds better than last week. The pavement is great, the road is pretty flat and the first light comes at mile 6 on the hard stretch. All I could see with my head down was about 10 yards of road ahead of me so I was just focusing on those 10 yards and cranking the pedals and keeping my speed up. I'm so use to Mike being right on my wheel I almost never do a head check. At one point I eased up a little at mile 5 to have some conversation with Mike as we cruised up towards the light but he wasn't there. I've never put distance into Mike on a ride before so I figured he must have been hurting. At that point I was averaging 23.84 so I toned it down for the rest of the ride and we came bumping in at 22.1 through 15 and 21.8 when we turned into warm down a few miles later. With warm-up we only went 25 miles but I felt good after. Didn't hurt at all. I'm hoping for warmer weather next week or the following week so I can get out there and give another good effort. The bummer about the ride was after mile 10 I was having gearing issues and was stuck with only my easy two gears or my hardest two. The middle six were jumping around. I guess I need to go over it and tighten everything up because the bike is just breaking in. So I know I could have gone faster but I couldn't ride the gears I normally would so I just threw in the towel and did some super spins and then tried to turn some big gears.
Tonight I'm looking forward to refueling because right now I'm 160.5 but I feel like a champ. None of me feels sore or tired in the least. I just hope I feel this good on the 29th!
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