Day 67 (Mon - 3/8)

What a beautiful day. I had these dreams of pulling a double tonight (run in the afternoon and a bike ride tonight). I wasn’t able to protect my time at work this afternoon and ended up spending the 30 minutes I had available for a run sending out some e-mail and getting prepared for an evening installation that was planned with the vendor. By the time I pulled myself away from the desk it was too late for me to get in a run and for my wife to get out for a walk when I got home.

The buggo and I played trucks and colored while my wife went out for a walk. We both had a really good time. He keeps asking me “How your run go?” to hear the story of Saturday’s run. My reply, which is quite rehearsed at this point: “My run was awesome. My favorite part was turning the corner to see mommy and buggo taking a walk. The geese flew right over your heads and when I passed you I heard my buggo saying: ‘go daddy go, you can do it’ which made me feel so much better.” Seeing his face light up every time we have this exchange is well worth the repetition.

Although there was no run today I did get on the bike tonight. I spent 46 minutes on the bike which broke down to:
- 10 minute warm up
- 5 sets of one-leggers plus two leg sprints (4 minutes each)
- 10 minute solid race pace work
- 6 minute cool down.

By the end I was working hard and moving the chains in gearings I have never spent a lot of time in other than going down hills. I am looking forward to hitting the streets and seeing what these gears translate to. For training log purposes I am going to estimate an 18 mph average.

I feel like I have moved through the first plateau in my training (which started on Day 45) and am starting to feel another pick up. My legs feel really good after these sprints and I am starting to be able to work harder over longer durations. The improved sleep schedule is helping tremendously.

There have been many days I felt like just dropping the goal, but am so happy that I have stuck with it. Again, nothing magical about this, it is all about your support network. Speaking of which, it is definitely time to add a coach to my network. I must get an e-mail out to my coach this week.

On another note Flash did buy the bike. I can’t wait to see it and I am really looking forward to some rides. He also said he was going to try and get in a triple today (a run, bike ride, and swim).