The day was a blur...

I was up early today and was at the Oakville YMCA by 8:30 am for a 4000 meter speed swim. I wasn't looking forward to it, but I managed to finish it in 1 hour and 36 minutes. I felt good and even on one of the 100 meter intervals I did a 1:38. I didn't want to miss this swim as I figured it would be a real confidence builder before the race.

When I got home I jumped on my bike to do a 2.5 hour ride before leaving to Louisville. Early in the ride I met up with another rider named Alan Adcock. It turns out that Alan lives near me in Millcroft. I'm glad I met up with Alan, he's a great guy and riding with him made the ride so much more enjoyable. Alan is also an Ironman triathlete who hasn't been able to compete any longer due to a knee injury, which is a bumper, although he still looks like he could compete. We ended up going for around 2 hours and 45 minutes and covered 79.5 km at a 29.7 kph pace. It was a little slower than I would have liked, but I couldn't have went any harder and kept my heart rate at 139 bpm. As it stood, I ended up going over 139 bpm quite a few times. During the ride, we went by a dog and it started to chase me. I've never had a dog be so determined to catch me. After we went by the dogs, we picked up the pace, so I figured he would quit chasing, but he didn't, he started to run harder and got within a couple of meters of me. I couldn't believe it, I ended up yelling at the dog and he stopped, thank god. I just had this vision of this dog doing something to me that would stop me from doing the Ironman.

After the ride, I stretched, had a quick shower and packed up the truck and was out the door by 3:30 pm. The good news was that I felt physically great, it didn't even feel like I trained today. We drove half way to Louisville and ended up in Toledo by 8:30 pm. On the way I started to get a runny nose, I sure hope it's not a cold. It did get a little better once I turned the air conditioning off in the truck, but I think staying up late to watch the Olympics and training 10 hours in the past 3 days is starting to take it's toll on me. Mark Allen told me to be careful, because some of my symptoms sound like I could be over trained. We got to Toledo and had a great meal and I had a couple of Amstel lights, I decided I'm not going to change my diet too much. I've got to go with what got me to the playoffs:)

I got some NyQuil and I'm getting to bed early with no wake up call, so I hope that helps.