The Weekend

On Saturday, I opted not to do the Mother's day time trial and got a couple of hours extra sleep. I headed out on the bike about 8:30am and went out through Oyster Bed Bridge, North Rustico, Cavendish and New Glasgow and back to Charlottetown. The weather was great and I felt pretty good. It took me a little less than 3 hours. The good thing is that I don't regard that as a long ride anymore. I did my usual half hour run right after biking. A few years ago when I was training for my first half ironman, I used to bike 90 k and then run 20 k just to prove to myself that I could complete the race. Now, I wouldn't dream of doing that. I find that a short run after biking is pretty much all you need to get the feel of the adjustment from biking to running.
I didn't do any training on Sunday because of the weather. This morning, I swam 2700 m which included a 1000m straight swimming. This is part of my ironman training program. It was supposed to be a longer swim but i am going to have to get up earlier to do more than 3000 m. After work i am going to run. My training program calls for running drills like skipping, high kicks, grapevines etc... which I have never really done before. I might try and find a spot in Victoria park or on the trail where there are not many people around to see me.