Four weeks to Ironman Arizona!

This last weekend was a pretty tough one. On Saturday, Greg, Danny and myself ventured North (North-West really) to do the "Georgia Ride" with the added pleasure of the double secret, slightly inclined, direct headwind, kick-you-in-the-crotch, Lacey's Place loop. Danny and Greg did this loop a year or two ago by accident.

It was a very windy Saturday as we headed to the Georgia border in our tri-geek non-drafting style. The wind was pretty much at our backs (or sometimes a cross wind) on the way out. We crossed the Georgia border, and then made a left turn by the Shack By The Tracks country store. This put us into a direct headwind...and believe it or not a slight incline that seemed to last the whole way?!? Danny was in front hammering out a painful pace into the strong headwind...but, we were only going 17-18 MPH! Greg wasn't feeling well, so moved up to draft off Danny, but Danny thought he was going too slow...so kept getting faster. Yeah, that was a lot of fun...not. We seemed to head in one direction forever, and I was wondering if we were actually on a loop...or were we going to end up in Atlanta. We finally made it to Lacey's Place and refilled our fluids. We then started back home into a headwind, and at best...a cross wind. The day ended with a little over 123 miles and a 50 minute T-run afterwards...about 7 1/2 hours total.

On Sunday I met up with Dr. Pain (Lyndon) to do an easy 2 hour run doing loops over the downtown bridges. It was a beautiful day and we had a good run traveling along the St. Johns river. Once back, we had some biscuits smothered in his mom's homemade pear preserves. I've never had pear preserves...and they tasted great!

Next week the long ride & run are shorter, but at a slightly higher intensity. Each week the length of the key workouts become shorter...except for the swim...there are some pretty long swim sessions planned the next couple weeks, so we'll see how those go.

Sween