"TGIF"

It was quite a "Good Friday". I felt a little spark of excitement today as a result of my workout. Here's how it went.

I headed out on my bike around 11:30 with an air temperature of about 7 degrees and a wind of just under 20 km/hr. Not ideal, but not bad either. I headed out into the wind as usual, and 15 kms in I was still debating how far I would go. I actually took a route I had never gone before as we had an unusal NE wind, and at one point I wasn't even sure exactly where I was. Fortunaetly I have a pretty good sense of direction and I got my bearings back. In the end I rode 83.5 kms in just under 3 hours, which I was happy with.

Part 2 of my workout was a run immediatley after my bike. I had worn my running clothes under my cycling stuff and so all I had to do was strip some stuff off, and change my shoes. I was back out on the road within 5 minutes. If you have never had the exprience of trying to run after spending an extended period of time on your bike it's hard to explain what it feels like. For some time your leg muscles simply do not fire correctly. So today I decided to try something different. A couple of minutes into my intended distance I took a one minute walking break. Then I went about 3 minutes and took another one minute break. I continued this pattern, increasing my run portion every time until I was prettty well running continuously. In the end I did the block with a total of 5 mins walking. The really strange thing is that I still did it in 39 minutes which is a normal time for me for a long run. That's when the little spark of excitement came. Near the end I realized that I felt almost normal and I could have kept running....I was real tempted.

I feel good! It was a "good Friday"!

Here's proof that I still had energy left. After I had something to eat I went to the garage and whipped these up....well actually only the larger one. I made the other one yesterday. I was actually assigned the task by Claudette but I did it willingly.

I wish to dedicate day 205 to Steve Fletcher, the guy who first got me into triathlon many years ago.

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."---Robin Williams

"From a little spark may burst a flame."---Dante Alighieri

love

peter