June 16 - 21

Mon: 5 miles outside (mid-day run).  I couldn't get it in before with humidity the temp was around 80.  Not completely unbearable.  I made some adjustments for heat, or so I thought!

Tue: swim 1 mile, bike 12
tried out my new cordless headphones in the water.  took some adjusting, I'll need to keep playing with it, have to figure out cap and goggles with it.  put in smaller earbuds hope that will help next time.  it will be nice to have music in the water.  i was still able to keep count, wondered that.  felt hard.  it's been a few days since i've been in the water!  feeling anxious about open water swim.  it's an adjustment, i just want to get in there before the tri.  i'm sure i'd be ok w/o, but want to feel prepared of course!  mostly i want to try the wetsuit, never swam in that before, never tried taking it off for transition.  want to try that.

Wed:

Thur: 8 miles outside am.  Nice weather, felt a little tough!

Fri: 5 miles tml speed.  Glad I did it, went up to 10 speed on trml.  Ran 400's instead of 800's for most of them.

Sat: cycle w/ Matt, at least 30 miles.  Injured crotch right at last mile.  Hit the bar... ouch!
Ran 1 mile in there while M chgd his bike tire.
As I passed a guy he asked if he could 'tuck in'.  That was a first for me!  Said sure, he said he didn't know how long he'd last.  I told him I was sprinting to get to my husband ahead!  We got to M then went up to Salt Rd.  It burned my quads!  Was a good fast sprint!  Felt good to be pushed.

June 9 - 14

This was a down week for me... maybe I can think of it as a recovery week!  I did work hard the previous week.

Mon: swim 1 mile, bike 10

Tue: rest

Wed: 5 tml

Thur: nothing
Fri: nothing

Sat: bike 24.5 then run 6
I figured since I was on fresh legs I'd get this whole block in.  It was good.  I tried to focus on keeping my speed up w/ the bike.  Sometimes during my ride I settle into the easier level, I tried to keep it at a faster pace for much of it.  The wind was really pushing into me on the way home.  I felt it!

I grabbed my fuel belt and a gu, then took off on my run.  I need to practice this transition.  It takes me a minute to get my gloves off.  The first couple of miles not only were my feet numbish, my legs were too!  It is such an odd feeling.  Look at these first 2 miles!  Apparently I go fast when I can't feel my legs!

I felt fueled, around 3 I started to feel my legs again to settle into the run.  I kept a good pace and hope I can stay around this for race day.  Now I just need to add 30 minutes for my swim.
I need to get out and swim in the open water and try out my new wet suit.  Got that at a garage sale for $15.  I don't know if it fits, but it will work!

June 2 - 7

Mon - swim 1600 meters, cycle on spin bike 12 miles (30 min with 2 hill intervals), run 2 miles (tml 8 pace)

Tue - run outside, midday 4 miles.  this was a hard run!  i was hot and it was muggy.  started to feel down about my pace.  i need to get out sooner to give my body a fair shot at a good run!

Wed - out early for a run!  yea, i woke up early.  i told the kids i'd take them to school so i'd have time to run.  wanted to get 8 miles in, but tripped and fell around mile 2.  totally felt dumb, it totally hurt!  i tripped on a piece of sidewalk.  but, i made the choice to run on!  i scraped up my hip, hand, palm and knee.  couldn't fiugre out why my knee hurt so bad, the scrape wasn't too seviere, but then noticed i fell onto it, it has a good bruise.  i cut my run short to 6.5 so i'd have time to clean up before getting the kids to school.  but yea for getting up early.  i'm feeling the need to at least get one 8 mile in.  get nervous about my running miles dropping as i tri train.  want to have a successful marathon training.

Thur - easy bike ride w/ melissa.  i invited her out.  it was a good, easy ride.  great for a rest day.  started garmin late, went around 14.5  miles.  it was great to visit and ride with my friend!  not too much effort.  have been doing more situps.  don't do nearly as much as when i'm dancing, have to just stop through the day and do them!

Fri - 1200 meter swim.  400 m wup, 400 speed laps (50m then rest), 400 easy, 200 backstroke.  wanted to save legs for sat.  thur spent a ton of time reading about tri comp.  haven't even looked at a training plan for myself, wierd!  started looking thru swim and workouts, reading, educating myself.  thought i'd try some speed laps this time around.  don't really want to practice other strokes, won't use them.  may buy a bouy for my training next time.  i think i'll be fine this time around.  really don't have a goal for myself, want to see how it goes and how i compare.  never having done this distance and only being second tri, unsure of timing.  i think i can do the swim around 30 min, the bike 1:15 or 1:20 maybe, the run around 50 minutes (8/mile).  last brick i was still running 7:30 so i'm hopeful i can run closer to that pace.  so total time is what 2:40?  i'll shoot for around that time.

Sat - 11 mile run outside.
wanted to get a good longer run in for myself.  my legs felt heavy at first, but i got into my groove around mile 4 or 5.  felt good and strong.  ran up youngs hill... slower... but got it done!  drank at 5, chew at 7, that was it for fuel.

at home finished g-rade, had some water, a gu (salted carmel is the bomb!) got my bike ready and headed out for a shorter ride.  my legs felt ok, took me a minute to get into it, did some standing sprints throughout and tried to keep a faster pace for interval miles.  don't have any sort of tech on my bike to know miles or speed, for now just use garmin and judge based off of effort.

May 26 - 31

Run: 22 miles

Bike: 40.32

Swim: 1600 meters (1 mile)

Monday - Holiday!  Got up early to ride with Molly.  Rode Tonowanda Creek then hid our bikes and ran 3.  So proud of her running @ 8 pace.  Loved running with my friend!  On way back she hit a rock and crashed good.  We called Shawn to come get us.. ride over!

Tuesday - Swim 1 mile @ JCC then out to run on the trail... in the hot sun!  Yikes!  I do like the trail has more elevation variety.  It was a good run.  Hot, but good!

Wed - rest
Thursday - I wanted to just run.  This was a tough day, didn't feel like doing anything.  Just started with changing my clothes, then stepping out the door.  It ended up being a good run.  I decided to throw some tempo intervals in there.  It is hard to breathe right now with phlem still in my chest, heat and humidity, but we press on.  The leg seems to be healed, maybe it was the shoes?  It feels good to not have constant pain as I run.  Need to start getting out in the morning.  Mid-day is more difficult with the heat.

Fri - I need to get my miles up.  It has been a long time since I've just run an 8 or 9 tempo and a 10+ long run.  I am focusing more on multiple sports w/ the tri coming up, but don't want to lose my miles.  Need to pick a weekday to just do a longer run.

Sat - bike and run.  Got up and took off.  Only had 1/4 bagel.  Took Grade and a Gu also little G blocks.  Drank a little a couple of times during the ride.  At half way had 2 blocks.  Drank again before run.  Need to figure out when/how to fuel best.  Maybe at transitions?  Gu maybe at each?  Was going to go 6 miles for run, but didn't have liquid with me.  Didn't want to have Gu w/o some hydration too.  Stopped at 4.  Thought for sure I was running 8 pace or slower!  I'm quite surprised at my performance.  This tri will for sure be a challenge, no doubt about that!  Thought it may be easier, but after my long bike my legs ached and I was reminded that yes, indeed this will be hard!  I do feel good, feel like I could finish with fuel, but haven't strung all 3 together.