Today instead of the normal long ride our training program called for doing an Olympic distance triathlon. It’s a little early in the season for doing those in this area so we just did a 23 mile bike followed by a 6 mile run. Well, I guess the run was supposed to be longer but I went the wrong way.
The bike ride was an out and back. I think I over dressed for the bike today, my legs were getting warm and had to open up the jacket at one point. I almost got dropped just before that on Ipswich Rd!!!!! I was able to recover and draft out to the turn around and that is where I picked up a 2 minute penalty from Coach Bri who caught me drafting. After the turn around I was able to pick up the pace a little bit and managed to push the average speed to 19.6 for the total ride including the ride over.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/82758033
Then the run, yup, this is where I DQ’d! That does not stand for Dairy Queen either. Although I could go for a Blizzard right now. I thought we were doing an out and back run as well, apparently on the way back I was supposed to turn at a different spot than I did and cut the run short by about .4 miles. So, I didn’t win any awards or trophies today. I was happy with the run though, after the first mile I was able to do negative splits and hold 7:30 pace for the last 2 miles.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/82747965
The slow ride home http://connect.garmin.com/activity/82757978
Weight: 165.5