Back to back bricks....whooo!

Thursday and Friday were brick days. Thursday was a long lunch with a 20k bike and 5k run...it went pretty well. I just set up a quick transition area in the parking lot of work, using the bike rack on my vehicle as the center. Shoes and water by the tires. After the bike, switch shoes, lock everything in the car, and grab a drink....it works great. The bike was faster than I expected, and the run was average.

Friday I got off work a bit early and did a 40k bike and 10k run in the heat. I'm acclimating myself to the heat, mostly for the Portland Triathlon but also for the Rexburg tri. Portland is over 100 degrees this week! So I need to be ready for that. This brick workout was with no gels or other nutrtion like endurolytes...and my times came in at 1:12 for the bike (very average) and a 52:00 for the run, which is two minutes faster than the last 40k/10k brick run time on the same course (actually 6.6 miles). The big difference was starting the run off the bike.....I started out at a much faster pace this time. I wish I knew what I did to make that happen. Very happy with this workout.

My weight is starting to drop, mostly from working out in the heat I think. Last year, I bottomed at 172, and I'm hoping to get to 170 this year. I'm at 176 this morning, fully rehydrated. Losing five pounds really does make a huge difference on the run, and a noticeable difference on the bike.

I successfully turned off the computer at 9:30pm every night this week. I'm able to sleep a little better, but it's still a struggle to get to sleep. If I could get to sleep, then I could get up and get in easy morning workouts that help so much in losing weight because you have to work off the reserves from the start.

Today was the Pocatello Triathlon....the hometown race. I realized Friday morning that I hadn't registered. Now the price was up to $50 for a spring. I decided a need to give back a bit and that I'm just not paying $50 for this race....So I volunteered. I ended up counting laps, which was actually really fun cheering everyone on. It was a beautiful day for it, too!

Spending the afternoon with Baby Paul. He's almost crawling and wants to stand all the time.