Wednesday, August 10th 2011

Swim:  4,000 meters

Run:  25 km  (3 hours scheduled, but it took longer)

Core:  missed workout

Comments:
Mario ran with me (again) … my schedule said “3 hour fat burning run” which I took for a long, easy run.  Wrong.
On the drive to the area we were going to run, Mario told me we were going to run “exactly 25 km … and the run course is challenging.”

My body/legs are very sore from the squats and then the massive climbs we did on the bike the day before.
50% of todays run was on mountain trails with several long climbs up and down. 
Going down hammered my legs.  Mario had run well ahead, but kept turning around and coming back to check up on me.

After 2:50 (only 10 minuntes from the finish of my schedule – I was still far from the 25th km) I started to walk … I couldnt run anymore because my legs were so sore.  This is the first time I have walked in a training run, and I think it hurt more to walk than it did to run.

All in all, not a great day.  My legs, and body are very sore and I missed my core workout in the evening because I was too tired to go to the gym to do it.
Tomorrow (Thursday) I have 7 hours of training scheduled ….a 5 hour bike and 2 hour run.