Week 16 Wrap-Up

Work struck again in week 16--more of the same project fun that Erin has been dealing with non-stop for the past couple of months. We had another plant start-up this week and, as we were short on available people in my group, I helped cover some of the "fun", which meant my training got all sorts of messed up. I ended up with two off days--Wednesday and Saturday both as I was at the plant both days. The good news, though, is that I was able to slide a good chunk of training into Sunday and Monday (technically week 15) as it was Memorial Day weekend.

After cramming in as much as I could during the fairly chaotic work week, I headed to LaPorte, IN on Sunday morning to do some training with Sue and Michele at their cottage. We biked 75 miles in the fairly brutal heat, humidity, and wind on Sunday (and since I didn't get there very early, we ended up doing it in the heat of the day)--it was actually a pretty good day to practice race-day nutrition (Perpetuem and Hammer Gel seem to be working pretty well), electrolyte replenishment (still haven't figured out how to take Endurolytes while actually riding, but I took advantage of stop signs, traffic lights, etc. to take them), and hydration (God bless my Camelbak...). When we got done with the ride, Michele and I took off for a 6-mile brick run--by that point, it was about 4:30 or so in the afternoon, but still crazy hot and humid. True to my form, I took off too fast, which made it a rough run...plus it's a lot hillier in that area than where I'm used to running, so it was fairly brutal. Got it done, though...and with plans to do my long run for the week and a long lake swim the next day (Monday--day 1 of week 15 instead of in week 16), I called it good...

Here's the roll-up...

Swim: 1:57:00 / 5150 meters
Bike: 6:00:15 / 102.48 miles
Run: 3:11:45 / 20.55 miles
Total: 11:09:00 / 126.25 miles