Tri-ing to stay young!

Week of Feb 17 to 24, 2008

Wow; Finally a complete week! 3 hours on the road, 3 hours in the pool and 3 hours on the bike.
It is getting harder to get up at 5:30 in the morning for pool swims. I can’t wait until May (April???) when we get into the lake.
I went for my first decent bike ride on Saturday; 60 Km out past Matticks Farm and back with a sensible ¾ hour stop at the farm for coffee and cookies. The scenery was great … so good in fact that I almost had a head on collision with another bike on the Goose (I was on the wrong side of the trail) and would have run two all way stops if Bob hadn’t yelled at me. I’m going to have stop driving my bike the way I drive my car. It was a rush to get on the new bike. If this bike doesn’t take at least a half hour off a ½ Ironman ride it will definitely be the fault of the rider!
I glad that my friend Tom has me out running more regularly. We are hoping to get out for 2 long (ish) runs each week. 1 to 2 hours/6 to 12 miles. We did 6.1 miles in 1 hour this Tuesday – fast for an old guy like me! Or at least fast enough to earn an oatmeal and raisin cookie and coffee. Our goal next week: A Tuesday and Thursday run AND two oatmeal and raisin cookies!