I made a decision last night that no matter what the weather decided to throw at us this morning I was going to get out and ride. Luckily at least when I first woke up - the sky was overcast, but it wasn't actually raining. So I got up - got dressed, loaded my bike into the car and off I went to meet my C3 buddies for a ride. We started off at the Inglewood arena, went along Old Base Line and then up Horseshoe Hill Road. I learned something today - when the name of the street has "Hill" in it - you should be very afraid of what is ahead of you. WOW - the hills were relentless. I think it was in the range of about 15km of rollers, with some of them being pretty steep. I actually had to get off my bike on one of them... man I felt stupid. But there was one shortly after that hill that was even steeper and I was able to make it up. Unfortunately riding with the C3 group reminds me how far I have to come. I have a LOT of training to do before Ironman. They are all such amazing riders - I think a big goal is to be able to keep up with them someday or at least some of them would be nice. The route today was about 45km because with the uncertainty about the weather it gave us the option to cut the route short if the weather got bad, or if the weather was ok we could keep going and ride longer. I opted to cut it short and stop at 45km (just shy of 2 hours). I realized as we were riding I should totally have been eating and drinking more but with all the climbing I just didn't. I am pretty sure this is why I felt completely drained after 45km. I went out for coffee with the C3 gang, which was awesome. So nice to chat and just enjoy hanging out after a ride. Then - I went home, put my bike on the trainer - and rode for another hour. It wasn't a long ride on the trainer, but the plan today was to ride for 3 hours, and I only did 2 on the road so I went home and got the other hour done. It's time in the saddle and it's so important to get the bike training in. It was also a bit of a breakthrough for me to actually get home load my bike on the trainer and keep riding after having done 2 hours instead of just having a shower and following that up with a nap. I feel like I really need to stick to my coaches plan. Sean knows what he's doing and I really want to do well this season so that I am going to be sticking to that plan as best I possibly can.
After my ride I ended up meeting a friend at Tims and by the time I got there I was SO FREAKING HUNGRY. I ended up getting chili and tea - but on my way home stopped at Sobeys, picked up some fish and went home to make myself dinner. Fish, basmati rice and veggies - actually it turned out really well.
So what's on tap for tomorrow, just the Toronto Half Marathon. At this point I'm just planning to go out and see how I feel - I'm not sure what my legs will let me do. This has been probably the biggest training week to date and so finishing it off with a half marathon is going to be tough. But since I'll be running on tired legs at Ironman, ok maybe that is the understatement of the year... I figure it's probably a good idea to get out there and race on tired legs and see what happens.
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