Busy Weekend!

Today's workout:
35 mile bike ride: 2:20 min
3 mile run: 45 min

So today was awesome, I blasted 3,100 calories this morning! This was our last big training weekend before our upcoming triathlon in Chicago. Next week we have a tune-up sprint tri and then we will start to "taper".

So today we did a 35 mile bike ride (2,800 calories!) followed up with a 45 minute run (300 or so calories). All of this was followed up by a nice plate of blueberry pancakes and syrup, which probably negated my great calorie burn :)

The morning wasn't looking too good though. When I got up it was thundering and by the time I had to load my bike it was pouring down rain. I looked at the radar and it looked like it was headed right where I was going. But I was already up and I just can't get back to sleep once I'm upright, so I figured this is our last tough weekend and maybe the weather will cooperate. Worst case, we would all end up at Starbucks or breakfast if we didn't ride.

So I made the 30 min drive up there and when I arrived, everyone was sort of sitting around waiting on the coach to arrive and no one had unloaded their bikes yet. So coach rolls in a little late and says we're going and we'll probably get wet on the ride back. So low and behold, the weather stays really nice and overcast for most of our ride. Our ride started out with the normal 16-18 mph warmup for 5 miles, then they love to kick it into gear. If they do 20 mph I can hang, but past that I just can't handle. Well today they decided that 22-23 mph would be a good pace (and no there was NO wind). Well I managed to hang for about 2-1/2 miles before my heart wanted to beat out of my chest. So I ever so casually swung out to the left and dropped off the line :)

Of course we get back for the run and sun has come out and is heating everything up. A couple people on our team totally ran out of steam. One girl had to be picked up she was so beat. I think alot of them hadn't ridden that long a distance in a while (or ever) and hadn't fueled properly while we were out. It feels kinda "easy" riding the bike (as compared to running) and it is harder to fuel up, cause you sorta need to stop to suck down a gu or pack some stuff in your back pockets, but I don't think anyone but a couple of us bothered to keep gel'ing. I had one powergel and a 1/2 pack of sports beans. I got back from the bike and had a great slow run. The heat was killer, but I usually double-suck at running coming off the bike after a ride that long, but I was happy. I think 6 miles would have been doable today, but we were only doing 45 minutes.
All in all, it was a good training weekend.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention yesterday that it was the first time ever that I was I able to do pull-ups on the assisted pull-up machine! Yeah I did about 5. I also did the assisted tricep dip, but I can manage to always get a couple on that. Of course I had the weight offset on the machine set to the maximum :) Still I have NEVER been able to do a pull-up on this machine, I was so excited :)