A little sticky this morning.  Legs felt a bit heavy, but not bad considering the weekends work outs.

I just spent the last 8 plus hours proof reading a 10035 line spread sheet.  My sponge is full!  I make no guarantees on the last 1500 lines though.  Double vision had set in by then :) ! I guess we'll find out when we go to load it into the system tomorrow!

I think I will either swim in the morning if the weather is good or at lunch time at the Y.  No energy left tonight.

4 weeks from today I get to sleep in! :) Time to start making lists!

:)

I can't seem to get todays route to download off of the Garmin. I'll have to mess with it later I guess. Started out to do the 2 lake ride over to Honeoye, but when I got to CR18 they had just tarred and stoned it last week and I wasn't interested in riding in that for 6 or 7 miles so I turned around and went down 21 and did the normal around Canandaigua lake. My penalty for being short on mileage was to climb up Wyffles road to complete the ride. Changed shirts and shoes and headed out for the run. I think I decided on this run to change into running shorts at LP. I don't know if I can deal with the tri shorts running that far. They are ok for shorter races, but I like running in something loose. I also need something other than a black running cap to run in on sunny days. Other than that, all is well :) !

The goal of todays ride was to simulate race day as much as possible on a training ride. Manage proper nutrition, stay aero, and minimal stops. I managed to do most of this fairly well and was pleased with my pace. I still think I need to drink more, but there is only so much warm Gatorade I can stand. Stopped once in Avon to relieve myself, stopped at the half way point to get a couple of bottles of cold water and mix up another bottle of Gatorade. I stopped one more time in Caledonia for another opportunity to relieve myself. Then came today's major learning experience!

This morning before I left I put the new behind the seat bottle carrier and bag on. Grabbed a tube off the shelf (which was the same as the one in the old bag) and everything fit nice. Now as many flats as I have had on my road bike, my tri bike made close to 2400 miles with the same tubes. I have never had to change a flat yet. Well that ended today between Avon and Lima. Guess what? The stems on my tubes are too short for my tri bike rims! So the humbling call to my personal sag wagon lady :( ! The good news is all the new stuff I put on works great! Much easier to get to the bottles and a much cleaner set up!

A side note, between Caledonia and Avon I started passing all these road bikes with flags on. One group I road with for a mile or so I chatted with the leader when I was passing. They are on a 50 day trip and today's trip was from south of Buffalo to Canandaigua. I didn't get a chance to ask where they started or where they are going to, but he did tell me that next Friday is when they should reach their destination. Riding back into town we passed a lot of them, I hadn't even gotten to yet. They made great targets to keep the pace up!

Now off to find some tubes! Mission accomplished (and I have extras too!!)

This is a link to the tour these guys were on! 50 days of riding!

I figured I hadn't better push my luck this morning and try and make up one of the runs from earlier in the week. Still feeling ok, but not as good as yesterday morning.

I'm hoping the new gear I ordered for my bike (actually a birthday present from my wife :) , happy birthday to me! ) gets here today. I ordered a behind the seat bottle holder and a bento box so I don't have to carry gels and bars in my pockets. Tomorrows ride and next weekends are going to be the time to focus and practice nutrition with minimal stopping. If it doesn't show up today, it should definitely be here for next week.

Maybe we can get tonights swim in without dealing with bad weather.

Great swim tonight!  Kam came down and met Dudley and I, swam the buoy line twice.  Boy have things changed, if asked 2 years ago how to spend a birthday, swimming the buoy line wouldn't have made the top 1000!

I enjoyed the swim guys! Thanks! 

TGIF!

I may have dodged a bullet! I had the achilles on ice quite a bit yesterday and stayed off of it and it seemed to loosen up as the day went by. This morning I figured I would try again and it felt good. I stuck to the treadmill (even though it is a perfect morning for running outside) to maintain a flat surface.

Planning on swimming at lunch time.

Stop by Dexter 's page and congratulate him and Sam on a great interview for the Doggie Du in the local paper!  It was a great article with some awesome pictures!

The anxiety level is rising :( ! I tried to run this morning and definitely felt some discomfort in the achilles. Walked some and it went away so I thought maybe it just needs to loosen up a bit so I jog another 1/4 mile and it starts to become more noticeable. The anxiety comes from not knowing whether to train through it or give it a rest. If it was race day I would be perfectly capable of running with the discomfort, I wouldn't even call it pain. But I am afraid if I train through it I will only make it worse and impact the whole deal. For today at least I am going to treat it with ice and Advil and take it a day at a time.

On a positive note, I have a 110 mile training ride Saturday and it looks like the cold rainy pattern we are in this week will pass by then.   I am thinking of getting on 5 & 20 and heading either west or east for 55 miles and returning, but I am open to suggestions on routes if anyone has any or training partners if anyone wants to ride some or all of it!