Thursday - Oops!!

   The Summer. Where did it go? I'm at least not the only one whose training gets in the way of blogging and who has just not had time to blog. I'd rather run or ride than blog any day. So, I've lost a month of posts. Oh well. I've gotten some good training in. I'm enjoying the speed workouts at the track and had some enjoyable rides afterwards. Bricks on Friday. Those Sunday runs have gone well. At least until I pushed 3.5 hours Sunday and got some nice micro-tearing. Hmmm that's fun. It'll slow me down but not stop me. Wednesday nights have continued to be enjoyable trail runs with the gang up on the mountain. I had a steller run a few weeks ago. I was in the zone legs, cardio, blood sugars, and all. Man that was a heavenly ~12 mile almost 2 hour run. I wish I could have more like that. Just changed out the trail shoes last night also...as Sundays run tortured my feet and I knew it was time. So I slipped on a new pair of Brook's Cascadia 4's.....man those bad boys are awesome.Funny thing is it's been raining the past few days so I knew Wednesday night's trail run was going to be a degree of sloppy. The runners store had a grey and darker grey model of the shoe on the wall. I thought that would be great because man I'm gonna probably trash these poor shoes within the first 10 minutes out. Wouldn't you know it the shoe I like happens to be the Cascadia...trick is it's not grey..it's bright yellow and with with some black striping on it. I laugh to myself knowing their beauty is doomed. It's gonna happen at some point on the trail anyway, why not the first run out. Who cares my feet were in heaven at least.

Wedneday - Brick

Run: 5 miles
Terrain: Flat and Hilly
Time: 0:36:13

Pre-Run Glucose: 71 mg/dl (uh-oh)
Post-Run Glucose: 146 mg/dl
Intake: 3 shots of Hammer Gel
Run Pump Status: 30% of normal

   Tonight I would be doing the "Ride of Silence" and so I made it a workout event evening by getting a run, and a few extra miles on the bike, in. The run felt good. I never felt bad at any point during the run and I was pushing it tonight. This pace is kind of fast for me. I normally run a ~ 8:30-9:15 mile pace. Comfortable. I rechecked the distance and was a little shocked I'd done it that fast, but well I am training, so it's gotta pay-off sometime right!


Ride: 32.36
Terrain: flats, rollers, and some very hilly stuff
Time: 0:59:13 (20 mile training); 01:26:30 (12 mile "Ride of Silence")

Pre-Ride Glucose: 90 mg/dl
Post-Ride Glucose: 138 mg/dl
Intake: 5 glucose tabs, 1 granola bar
Ride-Pump Status: 30% of normal


   The training ride felt really good. I couldn't believe I was cranking at the speed I was at times. This is just proof I need to do the hill training, with the .9 mile climb at home, more often. As for the Ride of Silence, this was the first one ever held in Chattanooga. Read about it. The event was held in memory of David Meek who was killed last March here in Chattanooga when a delivery truck basically hit his bike.