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July 22

Run
  • 31m 52s
  • 4.01 miles
  • 07m 57s /Mi
Exhausted today.  My wife and I went to the Billy Joel\Elton John concert at Wrigley Field last night.  Didn't get much sleep.  Going to try and get a swim in at lunch (forgot goggles, swim is out) and a short run after work. 

BTW - That is not us in the pictures.  I was trying to take a picture of the stadium from the field.  No idea who those people are. 
 
Wrigley Field

Elton John

July 21

Run
  • 11m 16s
  • 1.50 miles
  • 07m 30s /Mi

Part of Fit Test

Strength
  • 15m

Situps, Pushups, 300 meter sprint

Take a psuedo rest day today.  I had a fitness assessment as part of a job interview today.  It was max situps in 1 minute, 300 meter run, max pushups and 1.5 mile run with a 3 - 5 minute break between each.  It was tougher than most tri's I've done. 

July 20

Complete and total off day today. 
 

July 19

Swim
  • 09m 15s
  • 800.00 yards
  • 01m 09s /100 yards

No way this was 800 yards. It had to be short.

Bike
  • 37m 21s
  • 13.20 miles
  • 21.20 Mi/hr

Half the roads were the worse that I have ever ridden on. It was full of pot holes and bumps. I ejected my tubes and tire tools from my XLab. If they don't fix those roads, I'm never doing this race again.

Run
  • 32m 32s
  • 4.00 miles
  • 08m 08s /Mi

Not as fast as I wanted. My legs still aren't back all the way.

I went 1:24:39 overall and finished 28th in my age group and 171st overall. 

July 18

Run
  • 1h 02m 30s
  • 7.06 miles
  • 08m 51s /Mi

Easy run with CARA.


 Ughh.  Forgot the stupid Rascal Flatts concert is tonight.  This is going to make the neighborhood real quite and make it real easy for me to get to sleep tonight.  Out of all the bands that would be willing to play Wrigley Field, why did the Cubs choose Rascal Flatts. 

July 17

Bike
  • 55m
  • 17.78 miles
  • 19.40 Mi/hr

CompuTrainer

Strength
  • 25m

Upper Body

Ughh.  A little hung over today from our party last night.  Working from home.  Going to try and get a ride in this afternoon and some weights at lunch. 

July 16

Swim
  • 20m 10s
  • 1200.00 yards
  • 01m 40s /100 yards

Quick swim. Not going to get a run in today. Too much stuff to do.

Going to get a swim in at lunch and then a quick run this afternoon.  I'm taking the afternoon off as we have a bunch of people coming over to listen to the concert at Wrigley tonight from our rooftoop deck.  Hopefully my ankle doesn't bother me during the run. 

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