Star Wars on the road...

I didn't want to get out of bed early this morning, but I knew I had too. If I didn't, I wouldn't be able to fit in all my training and I had a missed weights session I needed to make up from yesterday. I'm glad I did, it was a beautiful morning.

Once I get running, I get into the zone and the time flys by, especially now since I've started listening to podcasts. Either my heart rate monitor wasn't working right or I had heart palpitations. It would go from 130 bpm to 157 bpm and back down. I think it was the technology because for the last two miles of the run it stayed around 130 bpm.

I managed to get my weight training done at lunch time. It was the first time I realized I had a little more weight around the midsection and that it's got to go. The mirrors don't lie. I guess I shouldn't have had that McDonalds McFlurry last night. But I'm not too worried, it took me a month to put it on and it won't take me more than a month to take it off. It's probably only about 5 lbs.

I was motivated to ride when I got home from work but then it started raining and I didn't want to ride in the rain. Instead, I ate and had a nap, I figured I'd be riding tomorrow. When I woke up the skies were clear and I was still debating if I should ride, it was getting late. Then I got a shot of motivation by eating some popcorn twists. After I ate them I figured I better get on the bike and burn them off, which I did. I didn't get out of the house until 8:15 pm and didn't realize that it's starting to get dark around 9 pm. Forty minutes into the ride I had to stop and take out the removable shades from my sunglasses because it was so dark out. Luckily I was able to still ride with the prescription inserts, if not, it would have been a scary ride not being able to see anything.

For the last 30 minutes I rode in complete darkness. It was so dark that when a car would come in the opposite direction, they would blind me with their headlights and I couldn't see where the side of the road was. One time it was so bad I had to stop until the car passed. I wasn't so worried about cars coming from behind because I was wearing a high powered flashing red light that can be seen from a mile away. Also, all the critters were coming out and I big old raccoon was sitting at the side of the road looking at me as I passed. I was just hoping I wouldn't run into one of his cousins on a downhill. The coolest part of the ride was the lightening bugs. I could see them all over the place and on one downhill they were coming at me and I felt like I was in the movie "Star Wars". It was worth riding in the dark just to experience that sensation.

Mod Run - 1:11:40 / 8.55 miles / 8:22 pace / 137 hr.

Weights - 45 min

Mod Bike - 1:43:48 / 52.64 km / 30.3 kph

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