If I had $1 for every calorie burnt...

After today's workouts I set another milestone. Since I started my "fat to fit" comeback, I've now officially burnt over 1 million calories in 666 training sessions. 

Today's long ride had hot sun, wind, hills and stone chipped paved roads. It wasn't an easy ride and my legs were pretty flat from the beginning. I tried to be optimistic and figured Morden, which is a prairie town, is known to be hot and windy and this is an ideal training session to deal with those elements.

The bike was uneventful, other than I stopped to help a guy put air in his tires. He was a Mexican guy in blue jeans and a coat wrapped around his waist. The tires weren't flat but low. I pumped them up as he admired and asked me all kinds of questions about my bike. The bike he had was a Louis Garneau and much of it was carbon with Ultegra components. I don't know if it was his or if he's one of the migrant workers that work on the farms in the area and they supply it or if he stole it. I was a little paranoid and made sure I straddled my bike while I pumped his tires for him.

My legs and buttocks were sore during the ride and I'm glad my taper starts on Monday, that will give me almost 2 weeks to get some energy and strength back in them. I did a brick run right after and as hard as I tried I couldn't keep my heart rate down or slow up my speed without walking, and I just didn't feel like walking today. For the last 250 meters of the run I had my eyes closed much of the time because they were burning from salt in them.

We have some guys building a fence in our back yard and today they were digging the holes. They started when I left and when I got home they had completed 6 of them. The ground is so hard and full of rocks and they have to hand dig them. It is really hard work. When I got home and saw them working like dogs and frustrated, I realized I'd much rather train than do hard labor.

After blogging, which was tough because I kept rubbing my salty eyes, I had a shower and weighed myself. Before I showered I drank a large pitcher of water, probably 3 - 4 liters. Even with that I was 3 lbs lighter than when I started. I figured I lost at least 10 lbs today from sweating.

Long Bike - 3:19:03  / 102.99 Km / 31.0 kph / 127 avg hr

Brick Run - 30:05 / 3.77 miles / 7:58 pace / 147 avg hr

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