So today was one of the workout days I've been dreading for some time. The always scary, brick workout. This is when you do a long bike ride and follow it immediately with a run. The run usually involves hopping off the bike and initially hoping your legs hold you up. Then the run typically feels as if you cut a tennis ball in half, and glued those halves to the bottom of your shoes. Then once your legs begin to resemble a normal feeling, you realize you're gasping for air and just hoping to finish.
Well, fortunately for me, nothing like that happened. I did a 55 mile bike ride in just over 3 hours. I hopped off and surprisingly my legs felt nearly as fresh as they did at the beginning. I went off on my run and to my amazement I had a hard time running at my typical slow pace, i was running nearly 2 min/mile faster. I had to force myself to slow down and pace myself. I wound up running about 2.5 miles in 30 minutes. Overall it wound up being a shade under 12 min/mile but the goal was to do it and feel good after. Granted, on race day i'll have to cycle twice as far and run 10 times as far, but it was a great confidence boosting day and made me feel very good about my cycling, which is the section I'm most fearful of on race day. I'm really glad to have had this workout and even more glad that it's over, at least until next week when I get to do it again. Weekly wrap up comes tomorrow night.
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