Since Hallie's team had their first swim meet (Evansville Relay's) on Saturday, she was unable to train with me on Saturday - and since this was the first Saturday I have been in town and it wasn't supposed to rain - I knew I was going to go riding no matter what. My wonderful cousin Cliff volunteered to ride with me! :-) I was responsible for calling to wake him up, then we had plans to meet at Ray Becker and Old Henderson. Thankfully Cliff did answer his phone when I called and agreed to still ride with me even though he was out late Friday night. We didn't have a set route or distance we were shooting for, we were just going to ride until we were tired. When we started riding Cliff made the comment, "Wow it's a perfect day to ride - It's not windy at ALL!" Of course he would say that, not 10 minutes later the wind picked up. hahah It wasn't terribly windy - but I hate riding against the wind. I felt good while we were riding and chatting - but Cliff just couldn't keep up (hahah jk Cliff) He did ask if we could stop and take a break - which I thought he was kidding but he wasn't! I told him we would head towards USI and he could take Hogue home and I would keep going to get some more miles in. He found out the hard way that he should ride without having something for breakfast - he had to stop two more times because he was just exhausted. But he's a trooper for going as long as he did. I added on another 15 miles or so which I probably would have gone longer but I wanted to make sure I had plenty of time to eat and get ready for the MD game. I did make myself run for twenty minutes when I got home - which it's been awhile since I've biked and ran. That is definitely something my legs are going to have to get used to. All-in-all it was good ride and good run. Thanks Cliff for being my training partner.
Until next time. Jenna
Just a suggestion for when you both really get into the training and something i did this season. Long as you keep your miles up in your running, you should not have to worry about doing bricks. Sometimes a brick after a long ride is not a great idea cause you may be so tired that your running form would suffer and may cause an injury. Keep up the hard work and quit complaining about the wind.
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