Team McAlister

This past week took its toll with work, travel, and odd weather.  However, it began with a little training time on the rollers on Monday, followed by a nice little 24-miler on Tuesday.  The trip to DC was brutal though and killed 3 days and included one night with 2 hours sleep and one with about 4 hours.  Friday and Saturday were spent trying to sleep and re-gain some energy.  Today, though, ah yes, today – 53 miles; 3 hours 30 minutes, inclusive of everything imaginable – high cross- to head- winds the entire ride; a couple of stops; and, some stretching.  The ride went well and felt good.  I have no statistics at all since I had no cycling computer mounted.  I actually liked the freedom of not being tethered to the electronics and just enjoying the riding.

is paved with good intentions, I’m sure.  I really meant to make the open water swim yesterday.  But, I was tired and over-worked, the weather was threatening, and the water nasty. So, I skipped it.  And, the weather was bad this morning, so I missed the Tri Training group ride.  BUT, this afternoon I did get in a nice little 20-mile ride in the first stages of a thunderstorm.  Didn’t get struck by lightning (obviously) and barely got sprinkled by the rain…but I was still leg weary from Thursday’s ride.  It was good to get that in though!

Tags: cycling, Weather

Okay, the weather has stunk!  And, the riding has been confined to elliptical rollers.  But, today the rain broke so I jumped out there for one of the usual 40-milers.  Great roll out…about 20 miles in the first hour.  I hadn’t counted on 100% humidity though, so I was totally under prepared.  No food… dumb.  Plain water… double dumb.  Hit the wall on the return and dark caught up with me… had to be sagged in.  Did I mention that I had to fight with my computer?  My usually reliable Garmin appears to be losing its mind and is practically useless recently.

Tomorrow has a 1000 yard open water lake swim available to the CARVE members that I’m thinking about.  I hear the lake is pretty nasty though.  yuck.

Tags: cycling, Weather

It’s finals time, so not a lot of time to train… Just as well, since it’s about as humid as Swamp Thing’s butt-crease right now. I did manage a 3-mile trot today, but not having run for the past week and a half combined with the humidity made it pretty unpleasant. Weather’s supposed to clear up today and be nice into the foreseeable future so hopefully I’ll make time to get out and enjoy it before leaving for Little Rock.

Tags: running, Weather