All you can do is tri

Yesterday was the typical long training day. Had a friend, Mike, join me for once. We did a 1 mile OW swim in roughly 40 mins.  I’m getting more and more confident with my swim in the wetsuit.  Still having to get used to rotating more than usual and my deltoids being sore from the restriction of the suit.  But all in all, it’s going pretty well.  Since the suit helps keep my feet up at the surface though, it’s making my lower back arch more than I would like and making it sore.  Guess I’ll have to work on my core bit. 

We refueled with breakfast and then headed out for a 30 mile bike ride. Right before we left Mike jokingly said, “You haven’t had a blood transfusion recently or are doping? ‘Cause I don’t ride with dopers….” I retorted, “Have you seen my socks?!?” He looks down and sees that they say “Dopers Suck”. I thought it would be fitting to wear them on the last weekend of the TdF.  I’m not so sad now that I’ve missed the whole thing due to not having cable.  The Tour de Dope has been no loss for me.  Maybe this will change cycling.  Maybe not. 

We had a good ride.  Spent a lot of time between 17-19 mph and even a little time at 22 mph on our way back.  At the end of our adventure was a large hill.  A very large hill.  Similar to the 7% grade 1 mile hill of STP.  It wasn’t so bad on my road bike during the STP because I have the typical 3 chain ring on it.  My Cervelo has the typical TT 2 chain rings which are not useful for climbing when I’m used to climbing in my comfy 3rd ring of the road bike.  I think I was going 3 mph during part of it.  About 100 yards from the top, I could feel my legs start to shake as I pushed on the down stroke.  I’d already decided to add a third chain ring a long time ago, but I’m pretty dead set on it now.  That was painful.  Before the hill I could’ve probably done 15 miles more.  After the hill, I barely had the last three miles in me to finish. 

Six mile run tomorrow instead of today since my lower back was feeling vulnerable and my tendons were feeling tight despite stretching. 

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