Iron Tuesday

I'm doing an ironman distance spread across the whole week (link for monday). Here's what I feel like after tuesday:



about to explode. Or is that face just trying to push out a fart? Who knows. Iron week day 2 is in the books.

Got it all in as planed, 15 more miles on the bike in 45:xx. Took it a little slower today, and finished with a scream: Chamois Butt'r take me away! Chafing is not fun. I want to think I know how Ryan feels now, he put 100 miles on his bike today and claimed he had the ass of a Mandrill afterward. I'm not that bad. But 67 miles in 2 days is a fair amount of time in the saddle. What? 30 more bike miles tomorrow? wow.

After work I went back for a 10k run. Covered the 6.2 miles in 57:58 and felt great. Actually, when I was done I was really hungry. But this run was supposed to be a predictor of a potential finish time in the SafeRun 10k in a couple of weeks. I knew that my legs were pretty shredded from all the bike time, so I wanted to see how consistent I could be for that distance at a decent pace. I think the goal of breaking an hour and PR'ing the distance is well in hand. My current 10k pr is 1:06:10 as the run leg of an oly tri. I am really looking forward to this race now. The run burned 1003 calories it said. Afterward I started to notice some nipple chafing. I never think about putting band-aids on if I'm not running at least 7 miles. But with all the bike time too my tech shirts are putting the hurting on. And I have to keep that bare chest sexy for all the swimming still to come.

I did not sleep enough last night. Damn you The Bachelor Women Tell All! And I'm loving the winter olympics. Can't seem to get enough of them. I also have not been eating enough. Nutrition during the workouts has been good, everything feels clean while I'm exercising. But I have got to work on the recovery tonight. Tomorrow is a 1 mile swim and 30 miles on the bike. Then Kelley comes up here on thursday and I told her I would take her out for a nice dinner. And I'm looking forward to that.

Iron Week totals so far: 1250 yds swimming (out of 4224), 67 bike miles (out of 112) and 6.2 miles running (26.2 total). I'm getting there. Exhausted, but I'm getting there.