Thursday, April 13, 2006

Tri Class #12: Bike Kilauea Repeats and Run

Yesterday's workout.

Starting from Triangle Park, we got on our bikes and did a loop around Kahala for a warm up, then we went over to Kilauea. Up and down 4 times, then back to the park for a 30 minute run. The run was 10' fast, 10' easy, 10' fast.

The bike went well, but I'm looking forward to just being able to charge up the hill like some of the more experienced riders. It sucks when I'm laboring along and a coach just goes cruising right by. I don't think they're even breathing hard! I guess that's why they're the coaches.

The run was pretty good too, except about five minutes into it, I rolled my ankle in a pothole. Hurt like hell for a moment and then seemed to be fine. I walked for a minute to see how it felt, and then ran the rest of the way. The ankle seemed a little tight, but no other problems. Today, it's just fine.

On a side note, I was told something that made me feel better about my time trial that I wrote about on March 1st. In that time trial, I was passed near the end by a more advanced cyclist, and I was a bit bummed about it. Well, at the workout yesterday, his wife told me that he said it had taken everything he had to catch me, that he had worked so hard to catch me that he couldn't do the run afterwards. Of course, it still sucks to have been passed, but at least I made him work for it.

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