Easy ride

Took an easy short ride so I could get home in time to mow the lawn. Kind of chilly out (low 50's) so actually had to wear a long sleeve jersey! Got in a nice 18 miler, just enough to loosen up but not work myself too hard... still tapering for the ride on Sunday morning!

Running on Norfolk Naval Base

Running at Norfolk Naval Station while on base for the Scientist to Pier trip. Couldn't run last night due to the TORNADOS!!! SOOO, had to wait to run in the drizzle that was this morning. Started off running towards the piers, took a wrong turn so never actually made it (still almost a 6 mile run) since I had to be back at the Bachelor Officer Quarters in time for breakfast. The rest of the trip was great, toured a nuclear submarine (USS Newport News), a frigate and the Stilleto experimental research vessel. It is built entirely of carbon fiber and is designed for scientific and engineering tests! Looking for a reason to take that baby out for a ride! Has a maximum speed of 51 knots and NO WAKE!!!

Running in the drizzling rain...

Running with Trinity. Added a little extra loop out Farmington, over Bryan point and then back to the usual course to add on about 1.2 miles. Felt ok, still having issues getting into a rhythm again. Felt 100X better about 2-3 weeks ago... miles in 8:25, 8:22, 8:01, 8:02, 7:35 and then the final 1/3 mile at 7:12 pace

Stormy weather, so back on the trainer

Well we had our baby Lamaze class in the morning, had some errands to run, then came home just in time for the weather to start to turn to crap. Therefore, had to do the Spinervals Muscle Breakdown video. A decent ride, but then again it was on the trainer so how could it be?

Bumpy Rose on Mt Carmel...

Riding Mt Carmel route with the Rose Hill edition. Thats three hills with > 10% (12 and 11%) grade and two more at 9%. Felt fairly decent most of the way, but started getting really sore in my lower back and hip flexors. Need to work to stretch those out as they REALLY killed my ability on the return. Overall it was a decent ride for a Friday afternoon in the warm sun! Now off to Mike P and Rachel's for a burger and a couple beers!

Tempo Run

Running with Trinity on a Tempo Run. Went out the same 4 miles I ran yesterday, but attempted to keep pace below 8 min/mile. 8:14, 7:45, 7:43, 7:37 were the splits. Still having some issue getting into rhythm again and legs were still a bit tight. Overall felt good, but not great.

Recovery Run with Trini

Running with Trinity out Accokeek Loop Route. After feeling crappy last couple days (been really stressed with work stuff, recoverying from the bachelor party and from my long ride Sat), decided to go for a nice easy run to loosen up. Started off at 9:10 min /mile, then dropped to 9:05, 8:46 then finally 8:27. Kept my heart rate low, just wanted to work out the tightness... think I succeeded!

Biking on Trainer - until legs said NO

Still recovering apparently so had to cut out of my workout 1/2 way through. Not a good day. Hopefully a good nights sleep will solve this.

Out for a ride... 80 degrees again!

Riding MT Carmel but decided to extend by staying on RT225 to RT210. Felt ok, meant for this to be a fairly easy ride, turned out to be a bit more than I expected, but overall ok. I really need some discipline to keep myself from going hard tomorrow. Perhaps the bachelor party tonight will leave me hurting enough tomorrow so that I won't be able to go hard? Beer, the natural anti-workout...

Tough Run with Trinity

Running with Trinity. Felt tight and tired the whole way (it was 80 degrees) and so did Trinity, poor girl kept falling behind and looking up at me with sad eyes (black fur ain't no fun in the sun!), so we cut it short and did 4.3 instead of the 6 that we were planning on. May be overtraining a bit so need to think about taking it easy tomorrow and/or Sunday.