It's all about the bike, at least tonight...

I'm focused on three things right now. Training, healthy eating and work. I was very proud of myself yesterday because I ate perfectly for the first time in a long time. No junk food, no late night snacking and I was back having protein whey smoothies. Since mid July, I maintained my training routine, but got out of my proper eating and nutrition routine.

I went to the dentist today and he told me I'm healing perfectly. I thought he was going to take the "gos" out of my mouth, it was bothering me and I tried to pull it out and was looking forward to him removing it. He then tells me that it is not "gos" but a "membrane" and that it has to stay in their to help the bone healing process. He said it will dissolve on it's own. Good thing I didn't pull it out.

I did my run this morning and my ride this evening. On my ride my mouth was open, as it always is, and was getting dry. I went to moisten it with my tongue and felt the gum flapped back from the wind. Ewe. For the rest of the ride it was drinking lots of water and trying not to let the wind flap my gums. It was gross.

It was my first ride with the new seat, shoes and bike fit. Right off the bat I could feel that my legs spun better from a better seat height. Then I could tell I was resting more firmly on the aerobars. When I went over bumps, I was more stabilized. I also felt less tension in my upper right back and neck, it was now across my back equally and it reminded me of how I felt last year on my old bike. Which is a good thing. My seat was also much more comfortable. I noticed it the minute I started riding. I still need to test it on a long ride, but my initial thoughts are that it is better.

I still think the shoes are too small and got a call that the new shoes a half size larger have been shipped. I'll spend time riding with both sizes and the right size should hopefully become apparent. I do like the single strap across the shoe, the shoes go on much faster.

I was a little disappointed with the ride. I didn't ride as fast as I normally do and I'm not sure if it was the adjustments to the bike or that I'm just tired. It was a moderate ride but I couldn't keep track of my heart rate because the heart rate feature on my Garmin wasn't working. I got a new battery today and found out after the ride that I needed to sync it back with my watch, so I didn't know how much effort I was putting out. Although I will say, intuitively, I wasn't going hard. I'd be shocked if the average was over 130 bpm.

Mod Run - 1:10:48 / 8.51 miles / 8:19 pace

Mod Bike - 1:46:13 / 54.88 km / 30.9 kph

Weight 182.6 lbs