skhill, that's terrible! What a jerk.

This week was something of a recovery week for me. I had a 40 minute run on Tuesday and then just 4 hill repeats today, half the normal number, basically another 40 minutes.

Saturday is a brick workout, Sunday an Olympic-distance race simulation (will likely be pool/gym as it is supposed to rain AND the water's not warm enough). Next week, baselining the LTHR. I hope to do it outside on my real bike/roads and not on the trainer/treadmill like last month since I was traveling. May 2 (week from Sunday) I'm running Bloomsday, the local 12k, and I hope to get down to 1:05 and toward 1:00... 1:07 is a 9:00 mile and 1:00 is an 8:00 mile. Last year I did 1:10, a 9:28 mile. I'm stoked, but the 4 hour bike ride the day before always makes it harder. Maybe I'll do my long bike ride on Friday and take Saturday off. Hmm....

First week of May steps up to 16-18 miles on the weekend (from 12-14).

66 days to Ironman. Recently entered the "yes, I can do this again" phase from the "ah, that's really far out, no big deal" phase. After starting brick workouts, I feel good about my decision to continue training in VFFs and do still plan to race in them. Really crossing my fingers that it's not HOT, but I'm going to start training with endurolytes to see how my stomach takes them just so I can adapt. If it's hot I know I won't survive without electrolyte replacement and gatorade is yuck.