Me

I realized I didn't really have photos on my blog, so here are a few new ones of me in and 'not in' my bike clothes!

A Great Open water Swim

This Sunday I went out with the Guys to Canyon Lake for a open water swim, The water was very cold, and as always i was the last one to get into the Lake... I asked Jeffrey to tell me what time it was because I didn't have a watch that's water proof. Andy stated that 1 lap was a mile. every one choose to do 2 laps. I had only plan on doing one, but after I started swimming and could catch my breath( yes I had a hard time exhaling in the cold water) I felt good and found my self swimming at a comfortable pace. siting was great, I used the swimmer ahead of me for direction on the way out and the bridge for a marker on the way back in. on the second loop I used a car parked on the hill as a marker on the way out and the bridge on the way back in.
I finished both laps and felt as though I could do another.

It was a great day, a great 2 mile swim with some great friends.

from April 5 to April 17,2010

Thus far this month I have ridden 99.8 miles and have ran 30 miles along with 9600 yd in the pool. I started this month feeling tired and out of sorts. My bike was good, the swim had come to a peak that I could not break, and my run is still my run.
I sign up to do a compu-trainer session on Thursday to see how my bike really was, man was that a eye opener. I found muscles that I knew I had and I thought I was using them....Not after 1 1/2 hours my muscles were talking to me. I would suggest that every one takes this session. I did that on Thursday morning and on Friday I could still feel the burn, but by Saturday my legs felt good and I had so much power in them. I will be doing this session again...

note to self: Burning muscles is a good thing? Right

Wind Training

This past weekend I rode with the Ladies on a 160 mile bike ride in two days. on both days we had a great head wind. I was impressed with how the ladies handled the winds, on the second day I rode alone for the last 30 miles. I had 4 of the ladies ahead of me and they were doing well working the pace line. I wanted to use the day as a training day, The wind was at 25 mph with cross winds. The last 9 miles before we turned back for camp was up hill in a constant wind. I would look up and think that the road was going to flatten out around the bend,but it did not, I could see the color jerseys still climbing ahead of me. This was a great mind builder. I thought I might get a flat tire, I thought about called it and was turning for camp, but I could not because my 4 team mates were at the top waiting, so I kept going.. There wasn't any coasting because if you stopped paddling you would stop moving, yes, the wind was that strong.... We called it the never ending hill.

What I learned was keep paddling and you will reach your goal. The mind is the body killer, I must keep strong thoughts and good thoughts in order to do this.