Well, it has been a while since my last entry. I will try to make it brief. I went out two Mondays ago and almost didn’t make it home. It was the day that it got up over a 100 degrees here. I went out first and did 63 miles at a 19.5 mph average. I felt good the whole time. I then put on my running shoes and took off for what I hoped to be a two hour run. I ended up only making it 45 minutes. I think I got a bit dehydrated. This is no exaggeration, I weighed myself right before I took off on the bike and I weighed 13 stone, when I stumbled back in from the run, I weighed 12.5 stone.
A couple of days later, Claire and I took off for Tahoe to camp on Fallen Leaf Lake for 5 nights. I had big plans for some long rides and runs. I was still a bit discouraged by Monday’s brick and started thinking about not doing the Vineman at all. Anyway, I didn’t get out for any long bike rides, but instead enjoyed riding the bike trails with Mathilda in the trailer and Claire on her own bike. I did go out on a couple of great runs. Both of the runs consisted of running around Fallen Leaf Lake. The first run I added in a run up the side of a mountain to Angora Lakes. The first run was 2.5 hours and the second run was 1.5 hours. I felt really good on both of them.
While in Tahoe, I was pretty sure that I wouldn’t do the Vineman, but after getting back to Sonoma County, I decided that I would do the race, but I would drop out if I got too uncomfortable. Since then I have gotten in some riding to and from work, and a couple of hour runs. I was planning a long ride for Sunday, but Claire and I will be heading in to work instead.
The big lesson that I have learned from this is that a bike shop owner should not plan on doing full Ironmans during the summer. The shop has been super busy and I have been unable to train like I would like to. I shouldn’t complain, I love my job, and a business owner shouldn’t gripe about being too busy, but… Anyway, that is all I have to say for now.