Final week before the Equalizer

Final week going into the Equalizer run on Saturday. The weather looks nice but the temperature is border line right now on what I want to wear. Right now I am going to have to wear pants over shorts. Didn't want to do that, but anything under 40 degrees I decided was to cold for shorts. Also, I don't feel ready. I haven't ran much in the past 2 weeks because of work and this week I can't really run since it is taper week plus I have a million and a half things to get done at my house before it gets to cold out. Friday is the prerace dinner. Kind of weird to me because who wants to eat a huge meal the night before you have to run that far. It should be on Thursday night. I probably won't eat much there, but hey, it is included in the race fee. This week I am going to try to run 3-4 days 2-4 miles just to get my body loosened up and use to running again. And start drinking water, but not as much as I drank before the Ironman. Holy crap, I do not want to have to pee that much again.

Chrissie Wellington = Awesome

A very busy work week has kept me from my daily triathlon reading, but I finally have had a chance to read up on this past weekends Ironman Championships. I knew Chrissie had won the women's, but didn't hear anything other than that. She is awesome. I would love to train or drive a car beside her while she trains for an entire build cycle just to see what kind of workouts she does. Great Job Chrissie. Back to work for me.

Equalizer Run

Training for essentially an ultramarathon hurts. Why would anyone train for just a marathon? To much running, lol. The last couple weeks I have been running about 4 days a week with 2 of those days 5 miles, one day 10-12, and a long run of 14-18 miles. My IM training was not this, but I think it helped me a lot that I could spread out my run days more and extend my aerobic run with a bike effort. I have not been on my bike in about a month. I don't ride outside in the cold mostly because I just don't have the gear to and I have been super lazy about putting it on the trainer. I have gone to a couple spin classes and water aerobics to fill in my "extra" training time. This week I will be at work for about 12 hours a day because I have a project due next week. It sucks because I really need this week to get a final good workout week before my race next Saturday. On top of it all, I am sick. Sunday I ran 18 miles and came home and didn't do anything the rest of the day. I am pretty sure that is when I started getting sick. I had no energy and later that evening I had to blow my nose all the time. Yesterday I could start feeling it in my face and head. It's all in my sinuses. Great. I hope it doesn't turn into an infection. I bought sinus med this morning and will pop those pills all day. It actually gets worse at night because I am laying down and it all runs into my head. So I will continue sucking down water and pills. I am also pretty sure that when I was walking through the skywalk into work, I had snot just about ready to drip from my nose...Nice.