| Sleep | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Body Weight | 7:00 AM - 180 | ||||||||||||||||
| Body Fat | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Breakfast | 6:45 AM – cereal 8:30 AM – tea, 8 figs 9:45 AM – almonds 10:30 AM – chocolate | ||||||||||||||||
| Lunch | 2:00 PM – pasta, greens, 2 pieces Fitness Bread w/fake meat and cheese, Stonewall's Jerquee, yogurt, tea, 2 carrots w/peanut butter | ||||||||||||||||
| Dinner | |||||||||||||||||
| Workout Food | water | ||||||||||||||||
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| Therapy | stretching, 25 min sauna | ||||||||||||||||
| Time of Day | gym – 5:30 AM IMA – 12:00 PM race – 7:00 PM | ||||||||||||||||
| Workout Type | active recovery | ||||||||||||||||
| Weather | 50, dry, sunny | ||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 15 miles | ||||||||||||||||
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| Results | |||||||||||||||||
| Equipment | Town Bike | ||||||||||||||||
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Argh... not much sleep last night. Why does that happen? Probably a million reasons. I woke up at 3 and that was all she wrote. :(
Core was okay except my obliques felt sore like I had really worked them recently and I know that isn't true...
Today I accompanied Andy G to the IMA. He jumped into a spin class and I stretched for 20 minutes and then hit the sauna. YES. Man, did that feel good. Of course I was totally dehydrated when I exited but that's easy to fix.
About one hour before it was time to head out and drive down to Pacific Raceways I started having doubts. No one else on my team was going so that meant no HOV lane, no help with the cost of gas and no one to work for/with and the course was the flats. My least favorite. I made my decision literally walking up the stairs to grab my bike; I was not going to race today. Instead I took a longer route home and judging by how tired I was I made the right choice. Man, I was really crawling.
I opted to ride home along the Seattle waterfront through Myrtle Edwards Park and as I'm cruising along this guy on a yellow Schwinn Varsity complete with stamped dropouts, streamers on the grips, jeans and boots passes me and has the audacity to say, "Good going!"
Game on.
I'm usually not a passive-aggressive commuter and I got over needing to not let anyone pass me on the Burke Gilman Trail ages ago but this flipped some internal switch and I sped up.
This guy was really flying! And I was on a single speed with platform pedals. But my competitive nature won out and I reeled him in after a few corners. When you have to coast around the turns you know you are going fast.
After disposing of Mr. Good Going I was back to my 5 mph crawl home. Climbing up to 1st Ave from the waterfront was killer... it's just two blocks but it's steep. When the lights are red I try to get a running start at the hills on the flat of the intersection (not much space to accelerate) but it's never sufficient and I have to muscle the majority of the climb. Sometimes it's okay and sometimes it's really hard. It's never easy. Riding up Pine was like a slow walk up a huge flight of stairs. I stood pretty much the while way and just turned over the pedals.
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