this weekend was hot, hot, hot

if you read my last post, it's clear that the trip to tennessee was scraped. after much back and forth discussion about the high chance of the ride getting rained out, we decided that we would enjoy a staycation and enjoy we did. we rode out butts off. since we didn't get to do the 3 state-3 mountain challenge we agreed we still needed to do 100 miles no matter what and seeing as our weather here was in full cooperation, we set out saturday for a century in the hills. for those who read my blog and may not be familiar with biking jargon, a century is a 100 mile ride. remember way back when (about 2 months ago) when i was whining and complaining about our unusually cold weather here in florida this year? and remember i said i had a new appreciation for hot weather and would never complain about the heat ever again? i meant it! but i do want to say that this weekend, we hit record highs here in florida. on our century ride saturday, we were riding in the 90's. the computer on my bike registers the temperature and at one point registered 110 degrees, i kid you not. however, i think that was because we had just stopped at a convenience store to grab our last bit of fuel and the heat off the pavement was super hot. once we got rolling again, it dropped into the mid 90's, which is more realistic. i felt every bit of that heat but kept remembering how irritated i was with the cold weather we had, so i embraced the heat this weekend. today's 51 miler was no different but i was just glad to have finally put all of my cold weather gear away for a long while and work on my lovely tan lines. by the way, the Neutrogena age shield sunblock is wonderful...no raccoon eyes from this weekend's activities in the sun and i'm undoing the weird sun blotches on my face, as a result of  last week's swim at 2:30pm, which i will never do again. i'll stick to early morning or later evening for my swimming sessions.

anyway, back to the century ride. it ended up being 6 of us heading out at 7am. the last 25-30 miles were really hard. thankfully when we made our last fuel stop, i stuck my head under a water spigot and that really helped cool my hot head off. all in all, we had a really good ride and i'm glad we decided to stay in town instead of making a 10 hour trip up to tennessee. i don't travel well at all, especially in cars. i need room to stretch out and things hurt when you are all cramped up in a car for so long. we found out later that it did not rain afterall for the 3S3M ride but no love lost here. again, i was glad to not be stuck in a car for yet another 10 hours coming back. i think it's safe to say, and my j-man agreed, that it's just a big pain in the butt to sign up for events that are so far away...there is just too much unpredictability involved. therefore, we will not be signing up for any more out of state bikiing events, period! we ended up getting in way more miles staying at home anyway, so good all the way around in my book.

the casualties of training are catching up with me lately. after all 305 miles i put in this week on the bike, let's just say, i'm not real comfortable on a bike seat right now. today's 51 mile ride was painful but i did it, but big OUCH! and i even lathered up with bag balm too but it didn't help at all. i think 250-275 miles on the bike per week is my limit.

overall, this week was another good training week. here are the numbers:
ran:
total time: 3:15:00
total distance: 25.0 mi.

biked:
total time: 14:56:15
total distance: 305.20 mi.

swam:
total time: 2:08:00
total distance: 5600 m.

i'm looking forward to the florida international olympic distance triathlon coming up on may 15th. i am ready! a big congrats and shout out to fellow blogger Bob at One hour Ironman who finished strong at the Ironman in St. George, Utah yesterday. hope everyone had a lovely weekend...back to the grind tomorrow.

much love and peace out!