August 9, 2007

Training is going pretty well. The races this past weekend were helpful in terms of running fast, since I've missed track session sthe last several weeks. I wasn't as fast as I would have liked in the races, but that's OK. This morning John Womack and I did a quick track session consisting of a 1 mile warm-up, followed by 1200-1000-800 at 5k pace, with the last 400 of every interval broken down as 200 jog and 200 hard. We finished with a 1 mile cool-down.

Last night, Mike McLamb and I rode in the awful heat on the Baldwin Trail. After a 6 mile warm-up, I rode 3x17 minutes at 40k pace with 3 minute recoveries between sets. After a 3 mile cool-down, I put on the shoes and ran 2 miles at about 7:30 pace. Did I mention it was hot?

Tomorrow I'll swim, and then do the Open Road short loop Saturday followed by a run. I'm thinking I might increase the run on the brick up to 4 miles and maybe work on the nutrition strategy.

I feel like I'm sharpening up for the HOT. I can't imagine the conditions being any hotter than they have been the last couple of days.