Subject: RE: run then bike The reason I would do a run-bike brick that would be exactly that....it's a lot easier to get in the run first, when the heat is a bit more manageable. The ONLY reason I (or most other runners ) would typically do a run after 8 AM would be if it was the latter half of a long brick, which I'd only do for tri training. Still remember just after I first got into tri, I was eating brunch with the friend who got me into the sport. It was after 11 AM with temps pushing triple digits when a very good-looking Western man in compression gear ran by at high speed, sweating profusely. "Boy, that dude must have a death wish," I commented. "Or he drank too much last night and only now got up to sweat it off," said my friend. "Or else he's a triathlete doing a brick," we then noted in unison. Only mad dogs, Englishmen....and triathletes run in our noonday sun. (Later found out he's the top male triathlete here in Vietnam. ) Only then did we note how good-looking he was.
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