Making up is FUN to do...

Another late night and early morning. Or in other words, "living in the moment".

Today was a training make up day. The plan was to do a swim, run and weights. Instead, I also added an unscheduled bike session. When I was talking to Jamie last night, he mentioned he wanted to do a ride in the morning and I decided to join him.

Originally, I met Jamie on the bike a couple of years ago, and we hadn't ridden together once this year. To me, this was a "friendship" ride.

Even thought it wasn't part of my training plan, I wanted to do it. Jamie's been telling me he's so out of shape, I wanted to find out for myself. He's wrong!!! His riding was very strong.

What I found was that his speedometer was screwed up. It's not set up correctly and when he's going 30 kph, it says he's only going 27 kph. Without knowing it, if that happened to me, I'd be "depressed" too. Could you imagine being an multi-Ironman finisher like Jamie and pushing it and ending up with a sub 30 kph pace, I'd need Physiatric help.

We had a great ride, talked most of the time and it seemed that no matter what direction we went in we had the wind at our faces. We passed a couple of cyclists and shortly thereafter, the alpha male came screaming by us.

Now I don't mind being passed and beaten by a stronger rider, I'm big enough to take it. But when a guy passes you, stays a head of you for only 200 meters and then "bails", I call that a "pussy". If he passed us and stayed ahead for a few kilometers as we "tried and failed" to catch him, that's a "real man".

After the ride, I hit the pool. I had "mush-brain" from last night, which made the swim totally enjoyable. It was a weird day at the pool. They only had one lane open due to lifeguard training. In my lane was a guy that looked like a pedophile and a Japanese women that couldn't swim well.

The pedophile kept looking at the young kids that were trying to get their certification. I consider a guy who's in his early 30's with a gut that looks like he has a turkey in it and wearing tight Speedos a pedophile. I was creeped out just swimming beside him.

Today, I wished the pool had a "penalty box". The women in my lane was swimming so slow that if she was going slower, she'd be going backward. Normally this is not a problem, but when I hit the wall at the same time as her and she doesn't let me go in front of her and she tries to go in front of me that's crazy. I wanted to give her a two minute penalty for being so "stupid".

Before I started the swim, I realized I didn't have my swim shorts. They were missing, again. I wasn't sure if I left them at home or that the person that took my first pair from the YMCA, was sitting at home smelling the crotch of my second pair.

Instead of being defeated, I swam in my non-chlorine acceptable tri-shorts that I use for weight training. When I finished the swim, rather than NOT doing weights due to a garment issue, I did them in my casual shorts. Today, nothing was going to deter from catching up and finishing my training. Not even if it meant I was going to look like a "dorky 80 year old" doing weights at the Y, the only thing I was missing was velcro shoes.

Once I got back home from the Y, I headed over to the school track for my running speed work session. I was NOT looking forward to it. The track is never easy and the only upside was it was the first speed work session of the schedule and was a little shorter than most.

I was smart this time, I brought a towel with me to put over my car seat to absorb the post-training sweat. I haven't been doing it lately and Alyssa thought my car was smelling a little foul. With all the 40 C hot weather we've been having this Summer, the "baked sweat" smell is not the nicest of car air fresheners.

It was go, go, go all day. As soon as I finished at the track, I showered and Alice and I headed over to Jamie and Barbs to watch Rambo and have some beers in their back yard. Nothing is as good as "beer and blood" on a Friday night. I told Jamie that if he likes "Rambo", he's going to LOVE the "Expendables".

I have a story to tell about my Kegerator, but I'm going to leave that for tomorrow. I've got some more barley carbo-loading I need to do tonight and don't want to stay up too late.

I've also got a long ride planned in the morning. I'm starting with Jamie and tagging off with Shaw. I haven't seen Shaw since the last ride I met him on. I'm looking forward to catching up. After our first ride, he's now been a regular follower of the blog and probably knows a little bit more about me since that first ride.

Mod Bike - 1:22:40 / 41.84 km / 30.4 kph avg

Long Swim - 1:02:17 / 3000 meters

Weights - 45 minutes

Speed Run - 47:40 / 10.20 km / 4:40 km avg pace

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