Biking and Running

Well, I definitely need to get better at writing these posts in a more timely manner!  But the good news is I've not been overly slackerish.

Firstly! New bike! YAY!  Finally after lots of searching and waiting and such.  I ended up with a 63cm Cannondale Six Carbon 1 With upgraded crankset from the FSA to Dura Ace, to get to 180mm cranks.  I will post pictures shortly!

Saturday I went with a friend and road the Puddle for the Ducks charity ride, of course I had to try out my new bike.  We went out and did 37 miles.  It was pretty good except for the last 7 or so miles.  Between massive headwinds and, my complete lack of shape, it was pretty brutal on me out there.  But the first 15 miles were awesome.  We casually cruised around at 19.5 mph.  I must say, new bike is yummy goodness for the road!  She's definitely a keeper!

Then this morning, I went for a nice 3.5 mile run with another friend and took a nice little spill on the way out.  But got up, dusted off and had a decent run.  Slow but it was cold in the wind and so hard to move fluidly. 

I did use the T6c for both of these rides, but still have to really look over the data to see if anything exciting happened.  I'm getting more and more familiar with it, so hopefully soon I will know what I'm doing and be able to use it to train with properly rather than just collecting the data!

Enjoy!

Where have I been??

Yeah, MIA for a couple of weeks.  I've been working out a bit, except last week.   Last week was a bust due to insomnia.  And this week didn't start much better since I missed out on swimming yesterday.

But I did run today.  It felt like a pretty crappy run, very slow and painful.  I ended up with blisters on my feet due to my socks being end of life and all stretched out and bunching on me now. 

But once I got home, I looked at the stats of the run, and was, shocked.

Using my T6c, I have it auto lap every mile, and here are my stats:

1. 8:51 min/mile
2. 8:19 min/mile
3. 9:18 min/mile
4. 5:19 min/.54 mile

So even though it felt crappy, it was a decent run.  I just need to get my sock situation fixed, and keep those blisters from coming back.

Even though the numbers say it was a good run, I still feel like it was a bad one.  But at least I got out there and did it!  That is the first step to improvement!

Some other interesting tidbits:

• Average Speed: 6.7 mph
• Max Speed: 20.2 mph
• Max Heart Rate: 190
• Average Heart Rate: 144
• Calories burned: 555
• Total time: 31:47
• Total distance: 3.5356 miles.