Sunday, April 27, 2008

start hard, blow up: Sunday Brick

i took the entire week off. excuses include: busy with work and school, vog in Hilo and Sulfur Dioxide levels in the "not so safe for breathing" range.

So today we do our weekly brick. Today is the first of the "train the race course as much as possible" series that we are probably going to do from now until race day. Of course I forgot all my swim gear and showed up late. What a douche I am!!!! 

TnT showed up at 8am and we got our shiznit together and rode out of Hapuna. I immediately forgot to turn right and do the short loop down to the Mana Lani. Durh..... But I was working on my cadence (keep it high and effort in the moderate and lower range, concentrate on repetition instead of strength) and it was going well. Todd dropped me a bit south of Lapakahi park, but soon enough I came over a hill and there was Todd, a female biker with some nice road rash wandering around in the road and some dude in a rental SUV. Luckily for Team Boom King we were just there to help. Apparently the bloody lady, Kerri I think was her name, just found herself on the ground attached to her bike. The SUV didn't hit her he had stopped to help when he saw bloody biker lady. So Todd and I helped the lady regain her bearings and evaluate damage. Soon enough Tammy showed up and Team Boom King did what we could to help Ms. Roadrash adjust her seat and bars. Then once she seemed to be sorted out we resumed our ride. Todd and I went to the Honu Half turnaround at O'opolu (spelling?) and back to Hapuna. We nailed the timing right around the 2:30 mark we were slated to do on this Brick. Tammy showed up soon after. Then we got our asses on the run to Puako and back again. It was hot. Effing A hot! Plus we had just completed a 50 mile bike ride. I did not reach the end of the Puako road this time around. But I did nail the run timing almost exactly at 1:05 as per the training menu. 

Then I sat around next to the locked cars wishing I had been smart enough to leave a bottle of water in the bed of the pickup. Todd had the keys. And of course he showed up last. Luckily Tammy had a few buxorz and bought us each a bottle of water. LIFESAVER TAMMY!!!!

Then a dunk in the ocean. Some post training endorphin/fatigue laughing fits on the beach and lunch at Tako Taco for me. TnT went southward to CostCo(w).

I'm concentrating on time and miles instead of pushing myself into arbitrary heartrate/effort zones. I did this entire brick at a 150-178 heartrate as measured by my borrowed heart monitor. I rarely felt like I was pushing my heart or respiration. Mostly I'm trying to avoid a knee blowout while I continue to build my base and slowly shave my times per mile.

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