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Monday 4/2 After the swim some of us hung out in the sun on the docks while a group of others went wake boarding. AAAHHHH, training weekend, life's tough. There were about 400 people rolling in on Friday for training weekend. Friday night about 20 of us had a big pot-luck and hung out around the fire. Later, we had all team meetings to go over Saturdays' courses, and I had a second volunteer meeting. Back at camp almost all of the guys got their toes painted (power colors, of course!), and we saw a beautiful red night sky thanks to some storms on the sun. Saturday started early. Wild pigs in the campgrounds, people snoring everywhere. Up at 6am, ready by 7:30 - taking off on the bike by 8a for a 56 mile hilly loop around the lake. It was a fast ride. Up Beach hill and out the park (hill, hill, hill, etc.) out to Lockwood (where it flatttens out for a while) and back up into the hills. Over the metal bridge and up nasty grade and then down Nasty Grade. Five gazillion more hills and then back into the park. One final insult coming up to the rangers station and then down Lynch hill, back to transition. I was around the lake and back in at 4:05, averaging 14 miles per hour. My race day goal is 15, so I still have a little work ahead of me. Nasty grade wasn't as bad as riding up Mt. Diablo (which we did last weekend), and the view from the top... VERY nice! Saturday afternoon we headed out to the boat docks for some swimming practice. I spent an hour or so on a surfboard and headed out to swim after the team had exited the water. It was a nice long swim at a slower pace. I haven't been in my wetsuit since January!! Got back to camp and had dinner, more team meetings and back to the camp fire. Sunday was daylight savings time. That was a cruel joke. More pigs in the camp grounds. At 5:30a, which was really now 6:30a got up to get ready to run. Down to transition and ready to go at 8:30a. It was a hilly 13.1 miles that I, being Polish, was able to successfully stretch into 15 miles. I didn't want to run in the first place! I had a hard run and learned a few lessons, not the least of which was not to drink any wine the night before a long run... My run time was about a half an hour slow with no one to blame but little old me. That's why they call it training weekend! Had luch then a dip in the water and a little sun bathing (this IS California, after all!) Back to camp to pack up and head for home. Stopped along the way for burgers and shakes at In and Out burger, a well earned treat for a successfull weekend. Now it's crunch time though. No sweets, no burgers, no slacking. Just hard core training until race day when I'm going to fly like the wind!! Wahoo! |
