My legs feel like jello

Hey all,

I thought I'd try to keep this bloggin thing going a few days, see if I can get into it. Just like running I'd lost my mojo and the only way to get it back is to do it more often right? The last couple of days have been good, yesterday I had a good run finally. I did somthing different, I forced myself to run with someone slightly slower then I usually run. At least for the first 30 minutes I kept with this gentleman. He didn't seem to mind and I even asked if I was annoying him. I know some people don't like it especially on the bike. ;) But we've NEVER DONE THAT(sarcasm). Anywho as soon as he dropped off I kept going and picked it up having done a "proper" warmup. I know it sounds crazy, who woulda thought doing a proper warmup would yield results. After that I found my legs and increased quite a bit near the end. My 90 min. Z2 probably creeped up into the Z3 by the end, but hey I really needed the confidence booster. I felt great at the end.

So Chad Leslie and Greg showed up for the swim and they were all excited about the new IM. Anyone else interested in St. George Utah??? Sounds interesting, I did some research on the place, there's some bad and some good things. I'm a lil leary, not quite convinced on it yet. The biggest thing is it's a May IM which means long long trainer rides. I'm getting better aquainted with the trainer, but could I handle that??? Def. not at this point, maybe by next spring I could. Oh well it was the topic of discussion before we started the swim. We did some kind of descending thing. They moved the bulkhead during one of our sets, which actually made one our 50s 60, and our next 50 75 as they moved the bulkhead. It makes for an interesting swim. Somtimes it seems like the wall has moved when you get tired, here it was actually moving. I didn't get clothes lined like last time with the flag thing that they drape across at the 5m marks. Nice of them not to do it this time. One of the last sets we did 4 x 50 all out. So I come into the wall just behind Greg and he mentions to me, "You didn't look like you were going very hard". I wasn't thinking and quickly stated that no I cut the gas before I got to the wall. Greg is usually not a slave driver, but this clearly made him frown. He tells me at that point somthing like, "No, I want you to drive alllllll the way to the wall" Do it again, this time push harder, effort wise then you've ever pushed. What a dumb ass, mental note*** don't ever tell your coach your sand baggin it, bad idea. Anyways he made me do a 5th one too, big meany. I really pushed like he wanted and nearly paid the price(as well as everyone else swimming near by) by barfing into the pool. Man I can't remember ever bein that nautious. Oh well lesson learnt, pay attention to the little things, one detail in itself won't make a big deal, probably won't affect the outcome at all on Aug 30, but a little thing here, another there, yet another there...... well you get the picture DETAILS!!!

Todays bike was good, I'm really likin these MAP intervals, they hurt like heck. I had about 3 sets of them ranging from 45-90 secs and 4-6 of them with a break inbetween. I'm sure most of you guys in the class will have had the same thing, I think I'm a phase behind them since I started a few weeks behind with the indoor sessions. I checked the distance to St. George Utah, I'm allowed to do an IM and Lisa likes the idea of me bein done the race early summer which gives us more time for other fun summer activities which don't interfere with training, ha ha. or the other way. Utah is close to Vegas so we could do some things there, not that we're big gamblers but neither of us have been to Vegas so it would be nice to do. Spring should be here shortly and I'm lookin forward to training with the group again, I miss the comradery how ever you spell that. I think Greg was talkin about doin Edworthy hill or maybe tuscany as soon as the temp gets into the double digits. Gotta get the bikes tuned up, oh well that's it for now, hopefully I'll blog again soon, later,

DP