I had a couple of everyday- kinda- base- runs (my fav kind btw, 7-8 miles at 8:30 pace FTW!!)
I also had a track workout which happened to be the first since November. I felt good and was happy with the numbers although looking back they were downright slow compared to what I was running this time last year. Like, way off pace! but now that I'm thinking back...
LET'S REFLECT shall we?: this time last year I was downright injured (from overdoing it) was still running 8x800's FAST (dumb) was still banging out 50+ mile weeks like it was NBD (dumb dumb) was racing almost weekly (dumby dumb) and was training for a marathon and to be crazy fast simultaneously. (oh gahd the humanity, wtf woman?!)
Ahem.
Suffice it to say, I may be slower but I am in zero pain. And have clearly grown as an athlete as well as a logical woman (I am eager for Eric to read that sentence as he may or may not agree...!)
Because I am on the brink of being a truly amazing multi sport athlete and therefore must declare my prowess on the mountains of the coast (yes they exist) I took my hot exclusive dating partner future hubs fiancee to Bah Hahbah for a 24 hour vacation.
When we vacation we cycle ALL the miles cos that's how we roll, bitches.
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| We started off the weekend right with TONS of pasta and champagne! |
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| Looking out over Frenchman's Bay. On a hella beautiful day, daaaaayum! ACADIA I LERRRVE YEWWWWW! |
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| Oh yes. We are a hot athletic couple! By Thunder Hole. Many agreed that Thunder Hole is a TWSS. |
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| I did get a little too excited when I walked by the MDI start! I'm NOT wishing the summer away but I AM excited for October!
Anyway. We had a great time. It was a totally decent workout, obviously, as we cycled 28 something miles which is a lot for a lame-o like me. I mean a terrifying Bradley Wiggins type person, duh. If he married me and then changed his last name he'd be Bradley Bradley hahahaha. I kinda love him.
ANYWAY. This is about my vacation with my EDPFHF and not about my secret boy-biker-crushes (yeah, the abbreviation? try typing exclusive-dating-etc a few times and taking a shortcut seems fun!) It was a lovely day for a romantic bike ride up enormous hills and such. We stopped a couple times to take in the view, which was amazing as always but we kept up a pretty steady pace. No lounging, no slacking! We met up with a biker gang that I plan to join at a later date. Eric almost suffered an untimely death when a tour bus came very very close to running him down (crisis averted!) Many moments of excitement as you can plainly see.
Cycling doesn't kick me in the teeth quite like running but it sure makes me ravenous. Seriously,we got off the bikes and I was all "GIVE ME THE FOODS MUST EAT ALL THE THINGS!!!" which was terrifying to everyone within my general vicinity.
A really fun day though. Excited to go on more cycling adventures as the summer continues!
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My friend and I are doing the 50k lobster race in rockland in July! Come join! It will be my first biking thing, well, except for the tris I have done. I'm going to plan on doing Acadia next year. Suppose they'll have another budget crisis and stay closed later like this year?
ReplyDeleteSo awesome that you are biking all of the time with Eric now...and you have the best gear and all of the fun.
ReplyDeleteI get MUCH hungrier biking than running. I've never been to Acadia.
ReplyDeleteI will agree biking makes me ravenous while I'm still biking. Running makes me feel sick for awhile afterwards, then ravenous. Either way, I eventually want to eat a house and possibly a barn I get so damn hungry!
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