Tri camp

It really wasn't as bad as it reads. You just get up and do the next workout. Normally, we would do the first workout and then chill out, eat and reast for an hour or so, then do the next workout, come back, eat chill out, nap and then do the last workout. The main guy, who is also my coach has a lake house in Michigan, so we did all open water swims, with runs around teh lake and bikes all over southwest Michigan. It was totally a great experience. It isn't like we did all 3 workouts in one shot. We fueled, hydrated and rested in between. Believe it or not, Sunday was the breaking point. The last 40 mile ride went from a nice recovery ride to being 38 miles of pace line racing. Oh joy!

I am took Monday and yesterday off. I am starting back at it Today - Wednesday - and we will see how I do. I really think my biking will show the greatest improvement.

My next race is teh Steelhead in Michigan in August, a HIM, so Those 75 and 100 mile rides should make that seem a lot shorter. It was pretty funny that the 40 mile ride on Sunday sounded short. It was like, "Oh! We are only dong 40 today?"

I have gotten a couple PM's saying how ward this sounds and all that. I thought so too. I was amazed that while the prospect of it was daunting, it wasn't as bad as it sonds. You just got up and did the next thing. The difficult thing was really focusing. I tried my nest to focu on where I was, what I was doing, and just the whole physical aspect. I think that is something that we all lose track of in races is that last 10- 20 % of each leg we zone out, and that is the prime time we need to focus on where we are!