Pain in the butt- setback!!!

All setbacks during hard training are a pain in the butt!! I had a good week going before the pain in the butt setback visited me! I flew out to Utah to do the Moab 1/2 with the clint, jimmy, scott and tyler. I trained during the week and on Thursday Jimmy and I went down to St george so I could ride the course. We headed down early Thursday morning and I started at the water and rode to the Vejo store- 50 miles. The ride went good and I felt pretty strong. I kept a good pace and rode steady. Jimmy was a good support partner and helped made it possible. We finished up and headed to In and Out and enjoyed a burger!! We then headed to Moab for the race on Saturady. We had a really good time there and the race went good for me. I locked in at a good pace and then at mile 9 i had to pee so i stopped and Scott kept going and I was to catch up so I peed and took off. I couldnt catch him where I thought i should so I assumed he picked up the pace to leave me. I caught him at mile 11 and was putting the hammer down- 7:20 pace so I just continued the pace to finish line. It felt really good and took heart rate to 160 and held it there. My legs and all felt good. We all went out to dinner and had a good visit!! I will leave my pain in the butt setback alone for now!!! I am off to weak week of training due to setback but will report something next week. Race time was 151.36, 8:28 pace and the last 4 miles were 7:30 pace.

Body still holding....

Well another week has past and still no injuries!! My body is holding up and the knees are hanging in there. I do have a lot of pain during the nighttime which keeps me awake but seems to ease up during the day. I had a big week of training with a long brick on Friday. I swam 1:20 min swim at 5:30 am and then went home to ride the bike 6 hours which included some steep hills and then I ran for 30 minutes!! It was a long day of training. I had a rest day the following day and my body needed it. Overall not a bad week of training but tough mentally with thoughts of "Why do i put my body through this?" I have those thoughts a lot. However I did get to ride outside for a few hours this week and that felt really good!! I needed to get outside!! I am heading to Utah to run the Moab half and do a training ride in St. George on Thursday. I am excited about riding the course! Well one more week down and cant wait to get this done!!

Pain in the butt...

Had a pretty painful week of training! Due to a very painful situation involving a certain body part in which I smash as I sit on the seat of my bike made riding extremely painful!!! I had a 5 hour ride, a 3 hour ride, and a 2 hour ride to complete this last week. I completed the rides but suffered extreme pain!! I did make a trip to the Doctors office and exposed myself to him for help!! He helped some. Also, I still cant stand to pedal due to a knee problem so that made the ride more painful due to staying seated the whole time. Of course all rides were completed on the indoor trainer due to snow etc. My long run this week was an 16 miler with lots of hills like the st. george course. My knees had a rough time with the hills. My (2) two plus mile swims went pretty good. Overall it was a pretty good training week and my body is holding up pretty good! Mentally I am trying to stay tough but all this indoor training makes it pretty hard. So each day I am getting closer to race day and not really sure how my body will perform!! I need to not worry about it because its is out my hands- all I can control is how much and how hard I perform my training! Lets hope its enough!! Keep you posted!

Another week down..

Well another week of training has past!! Not really sure how many more weeks of this indoor training I can handle. Snow Snow Snow that's all we know!! This week I put in a couple of two miles swims, I had a 4 hour bike ride for my long ride and my long run was 14 miles. I did 1.5 hour bike and then jumped off and ran on treadmill for 1.5 hour. I had an easy run on Tuesday and easy bike on Thursday. This week was good on the amount of training I put in. My knees are tender but they are holding up. I lost 5 pounds so that helps some. Well I cant wait to get this thing done so life can get back to normal for all. I am taking my bike out to the Moab half marathon this month so I can ride the St. George course again and see how I perform. Should be interesting!! I will post again next week.