Run

• 1h 59m 37s
• 13.08 miles
• 09m 09s /Mi

This will be the run course that I'll be working this summer.

Legs were a little sore from yesterday's bike and were definitely heavy. Ran it all easy and was never out-of-breath. But my legs were hurting pretty badly at the end.

Went out well to 7.0m, split was 59:10 (8:27/m). But I was moving real slow for the last couple miles.

This course is much harder than the 5430 HIM run with the last six miles being a constant uphill at 9600' elevation. So if I can run this casually in 1:49, I think I can do the 5430 run leg in 1:49, which is my goal.
I'm going to run this very comfortably under 1:50 before August.

Bike

• 2h 53m 28s
• 59.36 miles
• 20.53 Mi/hr

Didn't intend to ride hard today and didn't push at PR attempt effort but was just strong today. I pushed the uphill and flats pretty hard, and the downhills comfortable.

Home to Vail Pass.
Down to Frisco Church.
Around Lake Dillon.
Over Swan Mountain.
Back up to Breck and home.

This will be my main HIM training route this summer (if I can handle it), so I took detailed splits.

Adding the Montezuma climb to this ride makes it, 77.81m/6138'. Just set a new goal to ride that at 20+ mph this summer. Probably impossible for me.

After adding up mileage and climbing that's the best long climbing effort I've ever done. 4,671' climbing. Strong west wind too.

Bike

• 20m
• 6.00 miles
• -----

Testing Zipps on TTX and taking some position photos. Got some annoying click in the front wheel which I think is my valve extender hitting the carbon. I'm glad I'm going to start riding the TTX regularly so that I'll feel better about the setup.

Legs feel terrible which is probably mostly mental.

Sport

• Walking
• 45m

Bike

• 1h 18m 13s
• 29.20 miles
• 22.40 Mi/hr

First ride on my TT bike. Didn't use the Zipps because I wanted to compare against my Madone. I'm almost positive that the TTX is significantly faster.

When I first got on it going down my hill that I do 40 mph down on my Madone, I was riding the brakes all the way down at about 25 mph. It felt horrible.

After a few tweaks I was able to get the set up to feel good. The position is quite a bit more aggressive than my Madone and it took a while to get used to it.

I tried not to push any harder than normal but I might have anyway. I made Big Mike in PR speed even with the ~30 seconds my computer ran while I was stopped (takes 5 seconds at each stop for it to recognize that I've stopped). Plus, the wind was NE which is a bad headwind for riding to Big Mike (which is now plowed clear). So getting there in PR speed, I either pushed a lot harder, or the bike is significantly faster.

With the 54/12 I was able to pedal up to 38 mph (compared to 35 with the 53/12). I was at least 2 mph faster coming down the hill into Frisco from both directions.

Across Dillon Dam I changed my computer to not display mph and tried to push the effort I normally push across the flat 0.9 miles. I took a split across the dam. I did 2:03 into a little headwind which is a few seconds faster than normal even though I usually have a westerly tailwind. So I tested the same split going the other direction (with a slight tailwind from the NE wind) and did 1:58 (27.46 mph). I think I pushed a little harder going back but still not close to all-out.

So anyway maybe it's all mental but believing that the bike is faster is better than believing the opposite. So I'm pretty happy with my first ride. Once I tweaked the fit I was very comfortable for the whole 30 miles.

Now hopefully the position wasn't different enough to make me sore tomorrow.

Swim

• 23m
• 1500.00 yards
• -----

1x1500 easy felt great.

Run

• 20m 36s
• 2.46 miles
• 08m 22s /Mi

Easy rec center laps. Wanted to do 5k but ran out of time.