Back from Cuba and my first BRICK training of the year.

I arrived back from Cuba Saturday morning and had to run immediately to a family funeral as my mom's twin sister had passed away unexpectedly. I drove home from Halifax airport, showered and changed into a suit and headed to the funeral. I flew overnight on Friday and did not get any sleep until Saturday night. I did some house cleaning and yard work Sunday morning to deal with my guilty feelings on those issues and then headed out for some moderately ambitious training given that I just returned from a week of drinking about 10 all-inclusive drinks a day. (I did teach aerobics everyday and swam a half hour a day as well)

I cycled out from Charlottetown today and added on some hills in St Ann's and then came back to New Glasgow and back into town via the New Glasgow Road. It was about 70 k. and I felt pretty good. There is a frigging dog at a place on the New London Road just behind my house that comes right at you. It is not particularly safe to go up that hill because it is steep and you are going slow. Because I know that, I went in an opposite direction so that I would be coming down the hill and you are going fast enough that he can't catch you. But, for a while after that I pondered taking some action as I am not that inclined to continue to put up with that. I don't exactly want to make an enemy of my neighbor but someone is going to get hurt as that is a popular hill for cyclists. In my law practice I have sued or taken legal action against the owners of two dogs for damages resulting from accidents caused by dogs. One was for a serious motor cycle accident where the person could have been killed. Those thoughts kept my mind occupied for about 5 k. heading into town. When I got back to town, I added on a short half hour run and in total it was about 3 hours of exercise. I felt ok on the run as well and my legs were not too rubbery. One of the things I am a bit cocky about is my ability to run almost my normal speed after biking. (my normal speed, though, is not as fast as some people's.) My normal half marathon speed, for example, would be about 1 hour 4o minutes; in a half ironman after biking 90 k., it would be about 1:45.

As I sit here a couple of hours afterwards, I am a little stiff and do feel like I did 3 hours of exercise. Tomorrow, I am going to try to up the swimming distance to 3000m. We will see how that goes.