9:00 AM - Up early for a recovery ride. Sunny outside with a temp around 54 at the start. Projected to get up to 75 degrees today! Yikes! Windy yet again today. Ugh! Went down Parkis and Crane Road to Jockey Street into Charlton and back. Felt really great and no soreness really after the first mile. My quads were sore from the last few days of riding, but I really felt good overall. Funny thing I saw for the day today: At about mile 11 in Charlton I was cruising down this back road and I watch a woodpecker fly onto a mailbox. We have a staring contest for a few seconds and right as I get close he decides there must be bugs in the green metal mailbox and starts hammering away at it. I think it gave him a headache because he flew off shortly thereafter.
Total Time: 1:29:58 Total Mileage: 23.76 Average Speed: 15.8 mph
MY SINCERE APOLOGIES ONE AND ALL FOR NOT CONVERTING MY CROSS TRAINING MILES. THAT WOULD MAKE COMPLETE SENSE. I DID A LOT OF READING ON IT LAST NIGHT ACTUALLY AND FOUND MOST TRIATHLETES USE 1 MILE BIKE TO .3 MILES OF RUNNING, THOUGH SOME GO AS FAR AS TO SAY IT SHOULD BE .4 MILES. I'LL TAKE THE MIDDLE ROAD AND USE .33. AFTER LUNCH I'LL GO BACK AND CONVERT EVERYTHING. AGAIN SORRY FOLKS. IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN. - BENN
1:00 PM - My mom is in charge of the school store at my dad's school so she decided she wanted to bike to and from there today rather than drive the car to save a bit of gas. She asked if I wanted to go with her and of course I couldn't say no. I love doing stuff with my mom and she's just an absolutely amazing and inspiring woman. The funniest thing she said though on the bike ride was on the first hill when she goes, "Oh crap! I should have taken more 3,4 DAP" (The 3,4 DAP is a special medication she's on for her myestenia gravis that's not FDA approved but by giving talks about her condition to a medical college in New Hampshire, down at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and then at UC Davis Medical Center in California, she is on a trial where she gets the meds for free. So it's really great!). It was hot out. Maybe 70 degrees and sunny. But we had fun. And as a bonus we made money at the school store today! $2.60! Huge pay day! No seriously it was because she said we normally only make about .50 cents. And the little ones were so cute!
Total Time: 50:00 Total Mileage: 10 miles Average Speed: 12.0 mph
*Wow two monstrous days in a row! 33.76 miles of biking today! Now headed to my brother's track meet. The first one of the season that I actually get to see! Too bad he's on the injured list :(. Oh well. Should be fun! | 