Of Mice and Marathons

PM: 5k walk w/ Megan. HR 78.

Three goslings hatched. I spent a good deal of the day getting as much grading done as possible. Felt a bit better. Still not getting out of bed until 11-12.

PM: 12.7-mile ride. HR 143.

Planned on a longer ride after I got my grading done, but my electronic shifter battery died. It actually died in a good place and I didn't have to far to go back home. I did some single leg drills as my pedaling technique has gotten pretty bad.

Submitted grades just a bit ago around 8:30 PM. A definite PR. It helps that I cut a bit from the course schedule to help students (and myself).

Feeling a good deal better, but not completely. I expected it will take a few more days to feel mostly normal.

PM: 56.8-mile ride. HR 163.

It was about 68 degrees when I rode. Solidly sunny and the winds were light. It was the ride I needed. I guess this is technically the first day of summer for me, which sounds very privledged. Going to more agressively work on the house hunting progress and work on transitioning my course to online. We were doing more classes online in the fall anyway with the renovation of a building, but I expect we might go fully online or at least have a larger portion of classes online with the pandemic (official decisions still pending).

Late: pushups and PT routine (been lazy about this lately but it also makes sense).

PM: 7.3 miles, averaged 9:42. HR 150.

Overcast and kind of wet and humid (not complaining). Felt pretty solid running and overall mentally today. I looked at some houses online and tried to look at some realtor ratings but everything is so scattered. It's not like looking at product reviews online (and maybe it shouldn't be).

More rain tomorrow, so no riding likely but I'll get a run in.

PM: 5k walk with Megan. HR 82.

Felt pretty solid today.

PM: 10.2 miles, averaged 9:42. HR 157.

Felt great. Sunny, dry, a little breezy. Lower 60s. HR was higher than perceived effort, but I didn't feel like I was pushing too hard. Just out of shape. But with no running races and up-in-the-air bike races, physical and mental health and the like are what I'm in it for.

Ate an embarrassing amount of spaghetti and meatballs. Going to do two long rides this week. Probably 4-5 hours tomorrow and around 3-3.5 on Sunday. Roads likely are in great shape and it is going to be around 70 both days. Going to mark out a draft of a route now.

Night: light core, AIS, and PT

PM: 73-mile ride. HR 158.

Around 70, decent winds. I got pretty beat up after 2 hours and spent the next 2.5 hours feeling decent at times and terrible at others. Just needed more water and gels. I ran out of gels, but still had two and I took some dates with me. Those worked quite well but don't have sodium.

Longest ride so far. Last August I did around 70 or 71.

I had spaghetti for both meals today. I cannot recall the last time I had it for lunch.

I ordered War Fever that Rob recommended. I ordered it from Amazon, which wasn't what I wanted to do. The company has done nothing but continue to profit off of this. Amazon claims that it deprioritizes non-essential items. This is partly true. What the company doesn't tell you is that it charge ridiculous shipping costs if you want it a week earlier (still technically deprioritized).