One Solid Weekend

It is late Sunday afternoon and I am extremely pleased with the training weekend I just had. On Friday morning I hit the spin bike at my gym before work for a nice solid 40 minute workout, which may not seem all that impressive, except for the fact I returned home late the night before from a work trip to the West Coast. On Saturday morning I completed my strongest brick of the year--a solid 21-mile ride, followed by a 3-mile run at 6:49 pace. I had one of my best ascents ever of the brutal hill right by the George Washington Bridge--I rode out of the saddle the entire time in a nice easy gear, and rather than sitting back down after I crested the worst part remained up for the little rollers right afterward. My legs felt exceptionally good on the run as well. Today I hit the gym for a full body workout, my first weightlifting in a couple of weeks. Now I just have to get back in the pool again--it has been awhile unfortunately...

Catching Up

Once again I have been awful recently in terms of updating this blog, so I decided to just do a laundry list of new/possibly noteworthy developments over the last few weeks:

• After the bike computer problems I had during my last race, I decided to finally get a new one. I went with an entry-level wireless computer, and although it is really bare bones in terms of features (it basically only tracks speed and distance), I am already loving not having additional wires running over my bike.


• My training continues to be fairly consistent, including a weekly swim in which I continuosly do 100 yard repeats on the 2:15 (which is a great way to knock out 1,500-2,000 yards fairly quickly).

• I just took my bike to have the wheels trued for the first time. I am not sure what I did, but my back wheel in particular was wobbling all over the place, to the point where it was rubbing against my back brake. Not good.


• I just retired my three cycling jerseys, all of which I have had FOREVER. They were really starting to reek pretty bad, even after they just came out of the wash. Now I need to buy some new ones, one of which will likely be a Team RadioShack jersey (no, we are not going to start a "did he or didn't he" discussion), and will have to figure out a couple of others as well.


• I am still trying to figure out a race to replace the Olympic I was originally supposed to do at the end of June--given my fitness level and last couple of race results, I am really interested in how fast I can go.

That is it for now--I would love to say that I will start doing a better job of keeping this updated, but we all certainly now better than that...