What ever it takes!

Felt icky this morning but for some reason jumping in cold water makes it so you can't really tell how your body feels.  I wanted to swim in the outside pool but there was a big sign saying it was closed.

2400 meters in ~55 minutes, then 20 minutes of weights, Bench press, shoulders, abs.

Not sure if I'm just going downhill, or just not feeling it today for some reason but 7 Elliptical miles in 59:50 was about all I had in me today.  Did some weights for 20 minutes after.  Back and legs.

I'm definitely getting better at swimming, Getting the whole breathing on both sides down.  2400 meters in ~55 minutes w/bathroom break.  30 minutes of weights.  Leg press, Bi's and Tri's.

Plan was to meet Dave at work and go on an early morning bike ride, he texted me last night and said he was to tired and thought it might rain, when I woke up this morning it wasn't raining so I decided to stick with the plan and just go alone.  1 mile into my ride I met up with a group of 9 other guys and asked if I could tag along, they said sure.  We went up Big Cottonwood canyon for a bit then turned off and went parallel to Wasatch going South, up Little Cottonwood to the turn off and then down to Wasatch, looped around through some neighborhoods and back.  22.2 miles round trip, I felt really great the whole time and was able to keep up with Mike (the group leader apparently) and on the hills I usually was able to pull ahead.  I'm glad to see I'm in decent shape still, I made them all feel bad when I told them I didn't ride bikes and this was only my second bike ride in 4 years.  They meet every Tuesday and Thursday, I think I will try and join them, I'm also trying to figure out logistically how to start commuting to work from home, it's a 20 mile route and I think I could easily handle it 2 times a day.  If weather permits I may ride home from work tonight and back tomorrow morning.

Rain stopped around 3:15 so I decided riding my bike home would be fun, Had a nice tail wind going South and made it in good time.  1:15 for ~25 miles.  My Garmin died half way home.

Since my car was at work I had no choice but to ride my bike back.  Pretty hammered from yesterday and my butt was really sore, so my time was pretty slow compared to coming home.  Followed the Traverse Mountain road around Draper, even though I thought I knew it didn't, it sure seemed like it should have linked up with Wasatch Bvld,  But when I got to the end I found out it didn't.  So I had to backtrack back to 123rd down to 13th East and back up the brutal hill climb up to Wasatch Blvd.  Caught up with some older guy and ended up riding up Little Cottonwood canyon with him for a bit and then went back down the canyon to my work.  Route ended up being 26 miles in 1:34,  it's a really great workout but if I'm going to commute  I think I need to find a little flatter route.  I'd like to get my commute down to 1 hour if I absolutely need to and just make it longer for harder days.

Feeling sorry for myself for not being able to run UVM today, I just woke up early and went to the gym for a swim.  While I was driving there at 4:30 I thought about all the people that had to wake up at 3:00 to catch the buses, that made me feel a little better.  (suckers)

2400 meter swim in ~53 minutes,  my times are coming down.  I may need to up my swims to 2 miles instead of the standard 1.5

Went to lunch yesterday with about 15 other FRB'ers.  That was fun, it was nice to meet other people.  Most of them had no idea who the heck I was but I decided to un-hide my account again since I told people where to find me on the blog.