This week shall be known as “The Week of SNAFU’s”
Monday – swim/run 60 minute run (some stroller some solo) with 2x 4.5 min Z4/6.1 miles/72 degrees. I did the intervals solo plus a little extra, then took the twins for a short “running snack” to finish up the workout. 45 minute swim/2000 meters After we hung out a home a bit I started to get them ready to go to daycare so I could finish my workout and head into work. I went to open the car to put my stuff in and realized it was locked. I went back in looking for my keys. No luck. I went back outside and peered in the door to realize that they had been locked in the car. Bryan, who had also happened to forget his phone at home that day, had to leave work (after someone hunted him down at the school, because surprise his office calls were forwarded to his cell phone!) and come let me in the car, so my swim got cut short for the day.
Tuesday – ride. 60 minute ride with 3×5 min Z4/18.4 miles/18.4MPH/70 degrees. This one went off without a hitch luckily, and I averaged about 20.3 for the interval parts of the ride.
Wednesday swim/run. 60 minute swim/ 2500 yards. Not a SNAFU for me personally this week, but many others got their swims cut due to chemical issues at the YMCA pool. Considering they wake up before 5 am for this swim, I could definitely sympathize. 60 minute run with 1x 7.5 min Z4/ 6.39 miles/9:39 average/82 degrees. Its sad when its been so warm out that 82 “feels like” 88 feels relatively cool. We missed the group pic but I took a couple at recovery drinks (and food, of course) to make up for it.
Thursday ride/run quick change. 46 minute ride/14.27 miles/18.4MPH/75 degrees. 14 minute run/1.48 miles/9:27 average/75 degrees.
Friday long run. 75 minute run/7.33 miles/10:14 average/73 degrees. I really tried to keep this run at high Zone 1/low Zone 2. I managed to do pretty well until the last mile and a half or so and then I got annoyed and started speeding up a little. I’m going to need to practice more self control for race day here.
Saturday long ride. 3.5 hour ride/61.3 miles/17.4MPH/73 degrees at start. So the group decided to start this ride at 6am in hopes that we could beat some of the heat at the end. Great in theory, not so great in practice, at least not this time. Someone fell before we even left. 5 minutes in and someone had a flat. 20 minutes later someones bike was making a whistling noise. 20 minutes (ish) after that, someone had TWO flats (pothole). All together we ended up with 5 flat tires (among 3 people), 3 falls (myself included), a dropped chain, a funny whistling noise, a bee sting, a overheated rider and a partridge in a pear tree.
My seat issue still isn’t solved, and I was hungry an hour into the ride so going liquid only isn’t going to work so well.
Sunday. rest day. Took the twins to Hilton Head to meet up with an old college roommate.
Total Training Time: 10 hours 45 minutes
Training Thoughts: Oy Vey. (I said this Saturday and someone said they hadn’t heard it said in a very long time haha)
Journey To the Finish Line 
July 5, 2016 at 9:55 am
Saturday was a crazy day for everyone who rode. Tami, Nikki, and I went to run/yoga on Folly Sunday and apparently Tayloe crashed her bike and ended up in the ER on their ride, plus the comedy of errors on the Summers ride (Richard told us all about it at Folly bc he ran with us). You’re still smiling and got a lot of training in which is a good thing! And I’m glad you had fun at HHI :).
July 10, 2016 at 4:55 pm
The only good thing about snafus in training is that they will help prepare you for any snafus during race day. We all know that perfect race days are far and few between. Knowing how to handle issues that arise during training will be a blessing in case it happens in the middle of a race.
Hopefully this past week has been better!! Regardless of what is thrown your way, you got this!!!!
🙂