Swim: Need to find a way to entertain myself on the long swims.
Bike: good, nothing exotic this week
Run: Good...at my slow ass pace.
This week was a big struggle for me. Not anything to do with training, it was more just finding the time to train! I had to do a lot of (unpaid) overtime at work this week. I've been working on a short for the dvd of the movie "Hop". I'm really happy with my animation in it, but they just didn't budget enough time for us. So because I wanted my shot to look good, I had to put in a few...actually a lot of extra hours into it. I still have a couple more days on it, but the hard part is over, now I'm just in clean up mode. I'm happy that bit of stress is out of my life and I can actually go home at a descent time this week. That should help considerably with my training.
Training this week was a bit of a let down. Nothing bad really, but I had so much fun on my ride to San Diego that it almost felt like a race. By that I mean the excitement of it. After every race there's always a period of the bubble bursting. I'm sure there's a proper term that is eluding me at the moment, but it is past midnight, so my brain isn't firing on all cylinders. But anyhoo, I think you get the idea. Aside from Hop getting in the way, the week was fine, just nothing too exciting.
My bike ride on Saturday was just heading north on PCH. My typical training ground. It was a 60 mile ride at race pace. There was a little excitement in the first half of the day when one of my teammates couldn't get on his breaks in time for a red light and took out another one of my teammates. Everyone was ok, but a little beat up and bleeding. Thankfully everyone was ok.
There was a cool event going on while we were riding, and I'm a little pissed I didn't take some pictures...but its was the San Fransisco to Los Angeles Aids ride. The riders had been going all week, its about a 600 mile ride, and this was their last leg. So on the way back we just blended in with them. We totally felt like posers having everyone cheer for us, but really, they were on our turf anyway! haha! The plus side of having so many riders on the road was that it actually gave you race like conditions. It was great, cause we could latch on to some of the speedy groups and ride pace with them. Two groups stood out to me..."Team Popular" which was all in Hot Pink...and "The Easter Bunnys"...somehow appropriate considering Hop has absorbed my life this week. The bunnys were going about 24-25mph, which is a pretty good pace. It was a nice way to end the ride. That was followed up by a 6 mile run. Today, I did an hour on my trainer, then followed that up with a 9 mile run. Legs are a bit tired and looking forward to my rest day tomorrow.
Its getting close to my Half Iron, only 3 weeks til I head home to Indy! I feel ready for it...much better that I did when I did Vineman last year, I was scared to death...currently I'm just scared to death of Wisconsin...so that's improvement...I guess!
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