Well, as I'm sure you've read in Mark's blog, the relay marathon turned out very well. It was a tough run for me because it was very lonely with not too much to look at, but I managed to keep up a decent pace and finished it out without anything on my body breaking down. I was incredibly pleased with that. My teammates were awesome... both for running so well and letting me do the long leg considering I was the slowest of the three. Very cool for not worrying about finishing place as much as fun and getting in good training time. It was a lot of fun.
Last weekend was pretty hectic... Saturday went downtown to check out the Lake Monona 20K race. I love that course... it takes you on all these little roads that border the lake. It is very pretty! I was then dragged out to the land of the "horribly hilly hundreds" good times... Did 40 miles with some intense hill climbing. Not super impressed with my ability, but it is guaranteed that it will make the Ironman hills seem like anthills. I'll have to continue going out there... as far as doing the actually ride on June 12th? TBD.
Turned out to be a nice day weather wise. Good workout as well.
Sunday I actually had my chance to run the 20K Monona route in the SNOW!! Yeah, it was crazy... May 2nd and snowflakes as big as my head were dropping out of the sky. Like running in a snow globe. Very pretty, very strange and very wet. Kept my mind off the running though so that was nice. That was my longest run ever... making a jump of 3+ miles. I was happy. It was slow, but I felt like I could have gone for a lot longer... The biggest deal of this... I know I am capable of running that Madison Half Marathon at the end of May. I was worried about that.
Afterwards we headed over to help at a road bike race... well, kind of. Pretty much just hung around watching em race. Don't think I'll ever be interested in racing.
I guess that's it for now. Can't even begin to tell you hard frustrating it is to try to get a bike that I want! I just want it to end! That's all the detail I will into for now. Happy training all!
