Klineline

So I experienced this little lake/reservoir for the first time last night.  I got to try out the screaming fast wetsuit in real open water.  Of course I didn't put enough body glide on my neck and have this massive chafe mark.  It's from my shoulder material/collar rubbing.  I know that I will just body glide my entire neck.  I don't have any tinted goggles as I gave them to Orion as part of his welcome to triathlon training package so I was having trouble sighting right into the setting sun.  We swam about 30 plus minutes and my shoulders felt fine in the wetsuit so that was good.  I also was able to take the wetsuit off pretty quick by myself so that was good practice.  I figured out that I will take the top part of my wetsuit off first before removing my goggles/cap because I shot my goggles about 30 feet when pulling my arms out.

The biking has been going great down here.  I destroyed my old flat loop on Wednesday.  I pulled the whole way and just put in some good tempo the entire way.  We'll see how the hills go today but I'm sure they will hurt me.

My hamstring feels pretty good and I almost felt like going for an easy 2 mile test run yesterday but I held off.  If it continues to improve, I'll run easy 2 miles on Monday as the start of getting back.  I figure a couple of 2 miles days, then I'll start running 4 miles a day and after a week I'll just put in miles.  I won't do a tempo run until probably 3 weeks to go and just put in a "mini" base period.

It looks like my fellow IMC PFer is coming out to Virginia for a couple of weeks.  He'll be fairly close and plans to come up to my place for a weekend for some training fun.  I'll take him out on a good ride and hopefully get some swimming advice as he's one of the super fast swimmers I met last year.

The weather is nice out here.  No humidity.  It's almost too dry as I keep waking up in the middle of the night with dry mouth.  My skins all dry, it's crazy.  Everyone was saying it was hot on Wednesday but it felt pleasant to me.  I forgot to bring a sweatshirt, pullover or jacket which sucks in the mornings here.  It gets cold.  I just didn't think of it because its rarely below 70 degrees in DC these days.

I ate with some co-workers at the Original House of Pancakes and it was so good.  I love that place and definitely miss it being out on the east coast. We're having afternoon snack at work which will be great as I'll eat up for the big ride tomorrow.

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