This morning I had plans to meet with two of my friends, Ox and Cox, to go for a swim, bike, and run. I set my alarm for 4am but forgot to turn it on. What a dope! I was supposed to be at Jared's (Cox) at 5am. I woke up at 5:30am. I texted him and he said just to join us for the bike and run.
I drove over to Lake Saguaro and actually got there before they started to swim but decided not to join them. That gave me an opportunity to PAS. Jared had his wet suit on and finished before Ox. Neither Jared nor I realized that Ox was doing this serious as a time trial for his upcoming triathlon, so we didn't see when he took off.
Jared was kind enough to let me ride his wife's road bike since I haven't fixed my back wheel yet. I also borrowed a helmet from him since Ginger has chewed up both of mine recently. It was an aweome helmet, pink with flowers.
As we left the parking lot and hit the first hill I still hadn't figured out how to work the gears on Michelle's bike. I ended up having to jump off and push it to the top. Once I reached the top I was good and got into a nice rhythm. Now Jared was way ahead of me and Ox still way ahead of him.
Between mile 1 and 2 was the fastest. I averaged 31.3 mph and maxed out at 35.5 mph. It was freaking awesome. I was out in the middle of the street and didn't know or care if any cars were behind me. There was, but the speed limit was 35mph anyway. There were a lot of cyclists out this morning. This is a favorite area for them because of the hills. I made sure to yell good morning at them in my most manly voice so they wouldn't think I was a fruit for wearing a girl's helmet.
I finally figured out how to shift correctly on the hills. The plan was to go 13 miles. At mile 11.2 I hit the really big hill. I shifted to the lowest gear, but the chain still kept slipping. So I jumped off and started pushing again. Then I saw Ox running down the hill. So I rode for about 11.5 miles. Then I ran with him down the hill a while until I jumped on the bike and rode down to his parents who loaded the bike up, and I continued running with him.
The original plan was just for me to pace him in the run, but when I told Jared about it he wanted to come along. Then he talked me into joining them for all of it. Anyway, Ox wanted me to pace him at an 8 min/mile. He was going about 7:40 average. I only saw Garmin hit 8:00 once. He should do pretty good in his tri. So after 1.5 miles we were done. I turned around to run Jared in. He was half a mile back. I got 2.5 miles running in. It was pretty fun despite me almost ruining it for them.
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Day 83 P90X - Kenpo X - So much sweat. The horror. | 