100k Ride

I wanted to get a 100k ride in at some point. Last weekend I hit the wall at 45 miles so I just quit at 56. This weekend I took more nutrition and ate more often and that helped A LOT. I didn't hit a wall like I did last weekend. I got pretty tired the last 10 miles, but still felt good.

Saw a bear today on my ride and only got stopped by 1 train!

Bonk

 Well after 9 holes of golf and mowing the lawn yesterday my groin muscle is not happy at all. So with golf out of the question, no running either, I guess I will go for a bike ride.

The weather was fantastic! 60's the whole time, light winds out of the southeast. Really can't ask for better weather. My goal was to go out for a 50-60 mile ride. Knowing I haven't ridden this far in 7 months I tried to take it a bit easier and used HR as the way to keep myself in check. Did pretty good for the most part.

I tried some new to me roads today and for the most part I liked them. I got stopped by a train 3 times. I cross 4 sets of RR tracks 2 times in the out and back route I took. Oh well, risk you take.

The last 10 miles I was fading fast. I was having a hard time putting out any sort of power and just ran out of energy. Now I know what a Bonk feels like. Wow. I guess I need to eat more during these rides.

Another Running Injury

 Well this week I was doing some brisk walking and I seemed to have injured my groin muscle again. This is so depressing. I was getting so happy with my running and now I am back to square one. Historically this takes me a long time to heal.

I dug out my rehab exercises and I will be doing those religiously, but it will still be a few weeks before I can run again.

Once again, running foils me.

Longest Training Run Ever

We have slowly been building up my long runs this spring now that I am back to running outside. I have been continuing to do a run/walk type of training and trying to work on keeping my HR down into an aerobic zone. I still struggle with running and I don't have much speed but I have been keeping up with these steady long runs for several weeks now.

So today was a 1.5 hour run. I was excited to do this. I have never run this far or this long before in training. In fact only the 70.3 I did last summer eclipses this in distance.

The run went great! I came close to a 10k PR and did that while not redlining my HR! 8.55 miles in 1:32. I am super excited. Slowly I am turning into a runner?