OK. What did I say about the memory of pain subsiding with time. Here is 3 days later and I’m committing to another duathlon. The Pacific Crest Weekend Sports Festival is June 26-28 and features Endurance and Olympic Triathlons and Duathlons among other events. It will be Nick’s first tri of the year and now my second du. I’ll be doing the Olympic so it’s the same distance as the Deschutes Dash. As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m still debating if I’m actually going to do a tri. Besides, wouldn’t three duathlons be as or more impressive than one triathlon?
What I have discovered is blogging about exercise is so much harder than doing exercise. Ugh. Despite my silence on this blog, I have continued to train, adding long distance runs and sprints as well as a couple of brick workouts (a ride followed immediately with a run). I have my first duathlon this weekend – The Dual in The Desert. Wish me luck.
Thanks for checking in.
After a trip to Texas and a week of catch up at work, workouts are back in full swing. It’s been more than two weeks of bloglessness but there were a few runs decent runs that I never logged and there’s no reason to try and go back now.
Monday was our long run and it was great. 8 Miles in 65 minutes. Personal best. Later in the day I did another 8 miles on the bike up Awbrey Butte. Nice to be back in the saddle though I have not been taking care of my Felt and the gears are quite dirty. Add that ride to the 4 mile commute for the day and it’s 20 miles for the day. I’ll call that a good Monday and try to repeat that weekly.
Wednesday (yesterday) had another solid run. 5.6 miles along the river trail north. Had a time of 49 minutes which works out to 8.75 minute miles! Another personal best and getting close to that goal of 8.
And today I registered for the Duel In The Desert Duathlon happening at the end of May. It will be my first duathlon and first bike competition. Really looking forward to that.
Side note: Shaved the legs during the break to prep for bike training. It’s a strange, new experience. But I like it. Not sure my wife is into though – think it kinda freaks her out.
I’m not gonna mention any names, but some are satisfied with accomplishing a mere two activities a day. Well, not me. Today I started my morning on the bike training. Then for lunch I grabbed my board for a couple of quick rides at the mountain. There was a good amount of powder but the pain in my left calf that was giving me trouble in the last two runs felt very sore in my boot and made left turns pretty uncomfortable. Despite the pain and the time constraint, it’s always good fun up there. Finally tonight was my first swim class. I admit I was a bit anxious before it started but we have a great instructor and 7 of the 8 participants are training for the Deschutes Dash. This first class focused mostly on head position. Thursday we start breathing drills – something I really struggle with. But I’m much more excited about the class now than before.
I think I’m gonna sleep pretty good tonight.
And by that I mean this ride was dark and cold and gloomy. But still fun. Just an ugly day. And all I had were my dark lenses for my Smith glasses which only made it worse. AND I wore my glasses instead of contacts today so I was partially blind and that made seeing pot holes and gravel near impossible. But again it was a good ride and actually alleviated some of my soreness. So I have that. Once again I did the loop around downtown but the distance was a little shorter this time because 1) I tried a different street to start on and 2) RunTracker lost the gps signal a half a mile from the office. Oh well. Roads are still pretty bad. The city said they were getting the sweeper trucks out but no evidence of it on Washington or Reed Market.
Hope you guys are having great day. Looks like Nick’s blog got picked up by some app that tracks WP blog activity and got a pretty good spike in views and that may be spilling over to the rest of us. Perhaps, there’s someone else out there that saw us and has a little awesome in them waiting to get out? : )
Cheers.
| Start Time | 1/22/09 12:42 pm |
| End Time | |
| Elapsed Time | 26:06 |
| Distance | 6.53 mi |
| Avg Pace | 4:00 / mi |
| Avg Speed | 15.00 mph |
| Total Rise | 589 ft |
I love cycling as much as I hate running. It felt great to get on the road again. Runtracker worked great. I compared it to my bike computer and they were almost identical on distance and average speed. I rode from the office down Greenwood, up washington to Reed Market and around the Old Mill to Bond. It’s another beautiful day but felt a little chillier on the bike than while running. Thanks to my beautiful wife, I stayed warm with my new cold weather gear I got for Christmas. The bike lanes where pretty much covered in gravel, particularly on Washington and Reed Market, so be careful out there Jessica. Drivers for the most part were very accommodating but it still broke my focus quite a bit during the ride. Overall a great workout.
| Start Time | 1/15/09 1:00 pm |
| End Time | 1/15/09 1:34 pm |
| Elapsed Time | 34:06 |
| Distance | 8.30 mi |
| Avg Pace | 4:06 / mi |
| Avg Speed | 14.61 mph |
| Total Rise | 573 ft |
Oh and according to Wii Fit this morning I’ve lost another 3 lbs. Just 4 lbs away from my new goal weight/BMI.
One more thing. The donations are steadily rolling in so don’t be left out. Click the Paypal link to the left and give what you can. Awesome comes at a price, people – $200 for a wet suit??!! I got kids to feed.
Cheers.
