Cycling weekend

I didn't get my long run in this weekend like I wanted. I wanted to do a run after one of my bike rides but I ended up hanging out after them or having something to do so tomorrow night will become a run evening I think rather than Tuesday/Thursday. I'll try and bring my stuff to work and do a five mile hill run after work.

Yesterday was an aerobic day on the bike. We went out with Liz and Jill for 30 miles and I just kept the heart rate pretty low and did pretty much the whole ride in the small chain ring. Ideally I would have ran after this ride because I was plenty fresh.

Sunday started off as a colder day, only in the 40's outside and very windy. Wind was supposed to be up to 30mph today but we were determined to get out for 50 miles. Well, we did it and there was nothing easy about it. Once we got outside and saw the direction the wind was going we knew it was going to be a long day because for the most exposed stretches which are usually pretty fast ones, we were going to have winds in our face and what winds they were!

I was trying Clif Blocks on the ride today and I aimed to take three at mile 10 then three more at mile 30. At mile 10 we were battling way too much wind to take the break and have some snacks so it ended up being more like mile 15 and 30. I found out I'm going to need some more nutrition in Vineman because I was pretty dead by the end of the ride. I suppose we only really rode 45 miles because we warmed down the last six miles we rode. Could I have ran 13.1 miles after that ride? Hell no. Run/walk? Maybe, but it would be a struggle. I'm going to have to start shooting for a 50 mile ride each weekend. I'm thinking on the 19th I'll try for a century to see how that goes if the 50 isn't hard next weekend.