Lunch Run, easy bike cruise after work

Had a nice, hard run at lunch in warm and very humid conditions....the humidity is not common here. Anyway, 6 miles in 48:00.35, missing my goal time of 48 flat by .35 seconds. I'll rationalize that by saying I started my watch earlier than normal (at the door of work instead of the street, adding several seconds. It was a good run.

After work, I did a "cruise" on the bike out to Century High School and back. This wasn't a recovery ride, but simply a time to get some miles on the bike. I wanted to go easy because of the hard run at lunch and planned race-distance brick (40k bike, 10k run) tomorrow morning. It was fun to cruise. Finished in 41:38, with heavy winds (headwind out, tailwind back).

So tomorrow I'm doing a full race-distance brick. This will be only the second race-distance brick I've done this year, the first being the race in North Dakota in June. I need to be doing more of these, but I've run out of time. This weekend is the last weekend I have to do it. Next weekend is the Pocatello Tri, followed by a weekend fishing, followed by the Rush Tri, followed by the Portland Tri....then a few weeks (including Labor Day fishing) to the last tri of the year at Bear Lake. Time has caught up to me, and I'm not ready! I know I can finish, the problem is finishing in my goal times. I just don't have the endurance in my running legs that I want coming off the bike. And I've forgotten what it's like to do the entire 10k run after the bike. The whole "season" has gone by so quickly already. If I didn't love fishing in the backcountry so much, I could be a much better triathlete for sure!