I woke up to some chilly temps. I was suppose to meet Jason at 7am. It took me a little longer than normal to get ready. Way too many clothes. Booties, legwarmers, armwarmers, gloves, wind mittens, I cant even tell you how many jerseys I had on. By the time I opened the garage, Jason was there waiting for me.
We headed out on the TT bikes, down the training race course and took a left on the Plains blacktop. This is the smoothest road out there. We had a slight cross wind on the way out. Jason was not feeling up to par and was struggling to stay on my wheel. I wouldn’t say I was going hard but at a constant effort.
We made it out to New Berlin and Jason and I lost contact. I told him I was going to flip when I hit the end of the Waverly blacktop. I made it to the T and flipped waiting and waiting to catch Jason, I came back into New Berlin and still had not caught Jason. I figured he just headed home, but to my surprise, I found him at the stop sign huddling up next to building.
We road back in together for the most part. 56 miles, I couldn’t have planned that to be any closer to the 70.3 bike distance.
After dropping Jason off, and putting him to rest… I put the running shoes on and headed out for a run. My legs felt good and I made it all the way to Chatham road and back for a 10k.
Running off the bike is one of the most important things I have been doing a lot more of this season. And lately I have not been pushing myself as hard (speed wise) on the bike. Everything I have been doing is race prep, and the brick will do nothing but make you stronger.
Enough of the training stuff, we headed to St. Louis for the weekend.
