During my injury recovery I really learned to love cycling again, I used to ride bikes quite a bit until I had a very bad wreck in LoToJa and quit riding completely. I turned down a ride last Saturday cause I had an 18 miler planned with Ryan, this morning I had a 14 on the schedule but really wanted to ride my bike. I had quite the internal argument with myself last night about weather I should ride or run. I finally realized the the fact I was having to argue with myself over something like that meant that I have serious issues. The only reason I was even considering running is so I could put miles on the mileage board. So this morning I went for a nice bike ride by myself. Drove to work and then headed up to Wasatch Blvd, I was going to just make a big loop but started riding up Little Cottonwood canyon and decided it would be cooler, less traffic and much prettier to ride up to Snowbird. It was a very difficult climb, there were times where I thought to myself I could be running up this hill faster than this, but it was very enjoyable, kept my HR up for at least a solid hour. This ride was worth at least a 14 mile run. Legs are a bit jelloy now, I may go out for a short lunch time run just to get the legs moving.
22.5 miles in 1:40 *****************************************
Afternoon run, for some reason I thought a nice "easy" 6 miler for lunch sounded like a great idea. Asked Ryan what his running plans were and he needed 6 so that sounded perfect. I convinced him to go run outside instead of the Gym, we headed out from the office under I215 to the CottonBottom, thought about stopping for Garlic Burgers and then headed down Highland drive, ran out 3 miles, thought I was going to die of heat exhaustion, begged some lady for some water and then headed back. Net incline all the way back and brutally hot. A mix between my downhill sprint yesterday, my Snowbird hill climb bike ride this morning, and the heat was just to much. Time to take it easy for a couple of days.
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