Lots of biking

Well, I can say that I completed all of the workouts in my week 10 ironman program. I am not sure if I did them all with the recommended level of instensity. On Saturday I cycled for 5:15 hours which took me from Charlottetown to Cavendish, New Glasgow, Crapaud, Argyle Shore, Rocky Point and back to Charlottetown. I had hosted a dinner party the night before and had some wine and did not get to bed early. This is not ideal preparation for a day like this but that's the way things go. I did a half hour run after the bike ride so it was pretty much 6 hours of training. I then got cleaned up, immediately ate as much as possible and than tried to sleep for a while so I could join my friends at a BBQ. I woke up at about 8pm and went out with my friends.
The one thing I can say is that I seem to recover fairly quickly from these long workouts. Sunday am (after another late evening) i cycled for a little over two hours and felt relatively strong and wasn't really that exhausted by the day before.

I did oversleep a bit monday morning and was late for work. The next three or four weeks are the peak training period. Looking ahead on my training program, I don't believe there are enough long runs. For me to run a decent marathon, I need to have run a few 3 hour runs prior to the marathon. This somewhat advanced training program that I am doing doesn't seem to have many runs longer than 2 hours 20 minutes. So, I am going to do a 3 hour run this coming sunday and at least one more before the race.