One stinky workout...

For the past two days I've been debating if I should do tomorrow's 10 mile road race. It's Good Friday and everything is closed, even all the pools. I haven't done a race this year and quite frankly I'm interested in seeing my current race shape and feeling some pain and suffering that you can only get from racing. The race starts at 9:40 am and I'm not setting my alarm tonight. I'll only go if I wake up naturally and fully rested. If not, I'll just do my own long run.

If I do race it's going to be interesting. I haven't done any tapering and the last two day's of training have been harder tempo workouts and weights. Not the recommended training sessions to do before racing, especially doing lots of leg weight training 12 hours before a race. I don't really care because I'm not really going for time, I'm going for the hardest I can run under the circumstances and I want to feel some pain and an endorphin high.

My tempo bike was pretty good. I can tell I'm getting stronger I was able to catch a couple of guys who had at least a 5 KM lead on me. I was also hoping there was a strong rider I could have found going my direction, I would have liked a little fun competition. On every ride this year my middle back is sore when I get home. It's either from the cold weather or it's from the positioning on the bike. It's annoying but I don't want to change the positioning until I know for sure it is not the cold weather. I can hardly wait until I can ride without a jacket, tights and Bootees.

When I got home it took me about an hour to warm up and then I did some weight training. I was open to staying home and watching some TV and doing weights on Saturday, thinking that postponing them would help my race performance. But there was absolutely nothing on TV worth watching and I figured I may as well get them over with and I'll just run the best race I can under the circumstances. When I got to the gym I almost passed out. I forgot that on Monday I rushed through the weight session to finish before they closed and I had worked up a shirt soaking sweat. Well, the shirt smell reminded me. When the smell of my own shirt bothers me, I know it's bad. I really tried to stay away from any women at the gym, I didn't want to gross them out. The guys I wasn't to concerned about. It takes a lot to gross a guy out and I could care less if I grossed them out. I would actually wear that as a badge of honor. That's one of the differences between Girls and Guys. Guys like grossing each other out.

Today, Alyssa was invited to her schools "Principal's Breakfast" were she received recognition and a certificate of achievement for how well she is doing in one of her classes. All year she has been working really hard, I don't think she has one grade under 90%. It's a good thing she takes after her mother.

Tempo Bike - 1:16:03 / 39.06 km / 30.8 kph / ave hr 136

Weights - 45 minutes