We had our regular week of workouts with the few regular ripples of interruptions in between--a foot cramp in the overly warm pool, a stomach ache from too many burgers on the fourth, and temps that felt like 40-some-odd degrees on Tuesday. Yep, July 1, mark it in the books. Jason went for a transition run after a great bike workout on the trainer, and he had to don the long sleeves.
Saturday and Sunday we had a couple of genuine treats in our training world: heat and additional training partners. Our Ironman-trainer guy happened to be visiting family in the area, so he and his equally studly wife took some time out of their busy schedules to do their workouts with us. The iron-couple brought temps in the high 80s along with some stiff wind. Hooray, resistance training.
We have the genuine blessing of having friends nearby who are willing to do at least a part of our workouts with us on a fairly regular basis. If we don't have someone running with us on the long runs, we typically have someone riding a mountain bike and hauling water. Again, we are so blessed.
Let me say this: we recognize that we will not have someone to race with us, to run beside us or bike behind us on race day, the support sure is nice to have now and makes it a whole lot more fun. And beside, I'm fairly certain we will not be completely alone in Chattanooga. After all, there are about 1500 other people signed up. Or something like that.
I also had a wake up call this week when I received my training plan Sunday. In bold letters at the top, it said, "Ironman Specific Training." Dude!? What have we been doing for the past eight weeks? The real just got a little more real. So . . . only 12 weeks left!
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