T-Minus 5

Tuesday:

Home relatively early and on the bike.  Hit out really hard trying to go for a record.  The bike went well, I went as hard as I could.  Around a third of the way through I passed this guy, he was wearing bike shorts and a black t-shirt and this huge backpack.  I looked back after about a mile and he was right there, after two miles I looked back her was still there.  So I decided to talk him.  He is a forty-five year old guy and he was checking how far it was from his place to OLH.  He thanked me for giving him a "kick in the butt" and I was the first person to pass him on here for "a while".  He stayed on my tail for a bit longer, past OLH but then I (finally!) dropped him before Sandhill he was one of the fastest people I have seen out there.  I went as hard as I could for as long as I could, I started to fade a bit on the way home.  I finished up with a pretty quick time, moving time of 58:26 and a average moving speed of 20.8mph fastest ever.

The ride started at 4pm and back after 5:15pm (the extra time is because I time the ride from the "ride" side of a pedestrian bridge, as I don't want to run into some kid going 15 mph over the pedestrian bridge.

After chatting with Colleen for awhile she heads to the gym, so I go to the pool.  Hit the pool at about 6pm.

I get to the pool and do two warm-up laps.  Then hit the stopwatch and into the swim proper.  There is a guy swimming beside me.I try to put two laps on him over the course of the first twenty-two effectively lapping him.  He stops as I hit twenty, I want to stop, but I don't want him to think thats all I was doing.  So I keep going and he tees off again as I turn for twenty-four.  "Aargh!" now I have to keep going!  So I plan to go to forty-four and try to lap him again.  Everything on me hurts, I have no idea why my arms hurt as I have only been for a ride and thus not using my arms very much, but this is not a very fun swim.  To figure out why my arms hurt, I try to slow my stroke and pick up my kick to see if my legs are sore.  Yes they are!  So the conclusion I come to is that I have fatigued myself so much on the ride my body just doesn't want to do anything else.  I lap him on forty-one and then finish up on forty-four and hit the watch.  Finished the "k" (or .625 miles) in a shade under 18 minutes.  I try to do two laps of breaststroke to cool down, but after hitting the wall after the first turn,  I push off and cramp my right quad.  I finish the lap walking (I was in the very shallow lane) leading me to the following realization.

I know exactly why they do the Tri in the order they do it.  It is from "most likely to die" to "least likely to die".  So doing them in reverse order would lead to more deaths.  If you launched into a swim after running and then riding your ass off, you are likely to jump in the water exhausted and then there would be a bunch of people drowning.

So that was Tuesday, probably a bit too much - try to run tomorrow, ride Thursday, swim Friday, and the rest Saturday before racing Sunday.