Bricks

With this weekend's off road tri weighing on my mind I decided to do a brick of sorts yesterday.  For those of you non tri geeks, a brick is when you combine two disciplines into one workout.  For example, for regular tri training you might swim for an hour and then go for a bike ride.  For me, I'm not too concerned about the kayak to bike transition but the bike to run should be interesting.  I know that I don't have time to really train at this point but I can at least get the body used to the transition to some extent.  With that in mind, I did a mountain bike commute home last night, rolling home with roughly 1 3/4 hours of ride time and then I laced up the running shoes to go for a run.  B's buddy Rachel was over and her mother and brother were there to pick her up so when Owen saw me getting ready for a run, he insisted on going as well.  Who cares if he only had crocs with him.  I've got to admit, he kept up quite well for close to 20 minutes.  Sure, I didn't run full speed but for a 7 year old in crocs it was quite impressive.

One of the perils of my mtn commute is that there is a 3 mile section that I alone use so this time of year it can get overgrown in spots.  I swear, there is a trail in here somewhere.

flashing the bods.  I'm not really flexing but I am rockin a nice farmer's tan.

off we go

Thursday will be more of the same except this time I'll actually hit some hills on my run so that I can realize just how unprepared I really am for this weekend's race.