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June 8

Feeling 70% today, very minimal throat pain. Yyyyyeeeeaaaahhh!!! Over halfway to Lawrence now (4:30). Going to find the DeTaverniers and then probably take the bike for a spin before checking in and going to dinner with the family (if they can wait that long!)

June 7

So far in the last week I have had chigger bites, sore throat, runny nose, pink eye, and an ear infection. Got some antibiotics and some eye drops so hopefully I will make a speedy recovery and be on the road to success by Sunday!

June 6

Bike
  • 22m 46s
  • 6.67 miles
  • 17.58 Mi/hr

Quickie bike ride after my swim. Saw the Wednesday Night Weenies and said hello to them as I was making my return trip back to the Y. I felt kinda weird because I told them I wasn't going to do the group ride since I had been sick and had my race coming up, so I'm sure when they saw me they were like, "hey I thought he was sick?" :-P

Swim
  • 10m 57s
  • 700.00 yards
  • 01m 33s /100 yards

1:27
1:31
1:35
1:37
1:36
1:36
1:35

Whew! Smoked it! I swam at what felt like my 1:45-1:50/100 yard pace and, well, you can see what that translated into. It's because I swam in my tri suit instead of my swim trunks. Now I'm tempted to swim a 1,000 yard TT in it once I'm recovered from IMKS, I'm thinking I could probably smash my PR.

Weight is dropping like a rock! That's kind of cool to see. My throat still hurts pretty bad and I'm thinking about going to see a doctor today. We'll see how I feel in another hour or two. --- Made another Buff smoothie for lunch today (it's thawing a little bit before I blend it) and Brynn is going to look into a doctor for me to go to. I haven't been to a regular ol' doctor (I went to a podiatrist in '09-ish) since probably 2001 when I got my physical to play sports my senior year of high school. === Hmm, throat is actually feeling decent right now and the last time I took ibuprophen was around 10AM. Still coughing and it still hurts, so I'll stick with my 2PM appointment with the doc tomorrow. In un-related news, just got two rush orders for final inspections in Beatrice, so that will be kind of nice to not have to shoot down there just for one, I can double them up today.

June 5

Bike
  • 49m 16s
  • 11.23 miles
  • 13.67 Mi/hr

Distance is about 1/4 mile off because I didn't start it right away when we left, but that's okay. Just an easy recovery ride out to the 162nd St exit and back on HWY 2. I told her we should ride to the lake and back and she insisted on riding on the highway. *shrug* At least she rode side-by-side with me this time instead of insisting on going single file!

Just ordered a Pearl Izumi select tri suit and opted for the expedited shipping so that it will be here on Wednesday and I can try it out before race day. Pretty exciting!! Did an easy ride with Brynn this morning to shake some of the cobwebs out. My throat feels about 10% better, so that is promising. I expect the improvement to increase exponentially until the race so that I feel fine on race day, but I'm also doing my part to stay well hydrated and eat very smart (well, as smart as Brynn will allow me to:) --- Drinking a Buff Smoothie for lunch to both help with weight maintenance/loss as well as the amazing amount of nutritional benefit of one of these (tons of antioxidants from the blueberries, pomegranate juice, strawberries, and many many vitamins/minerals from all that plus peaches and bananas.) Plus it's tasty, so there's that :)

June 4

Youch. My throat hasn't hurt this bad since I had my tonsils taken out. On the bright side, I'm under 204 lbs so that will be nice on race day to have a little bit less weight to have to haul around.

June 3

What I figured would happen has happened--I'm sick. That's fine by me, since it's taper time. Better now than in like 5 days or so! Started feeling it last night so maybe that's part of why my run yesterday was a total dog's breakfast. I thought I was going to be able to run the whole 5 miles without any walking breaks, but that went out the window after 10 minutes. I walked again at 20 minutes, then at 2.5 miles (about 23/4-ish minutes), at 30 minutes, and then I walked the on the uphills of the Triple H (Heart Hospital Hills) and ran the rest of the way home after crossing the highway, about a half mile. Got the HR up into the low 180s at the end there (183 I think?). It was just a hot and sucky run and not a confidence booster at all. But now that I know I was already starting the process of getting sick I can hang it partially on that!

June 2

Run
  • 53m 31s
  • 5.05 miles
  • 10m 36s /Mi

Yuck.

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