And I thought I was doing so well

I went out to the West Orange Trail today. I love that place. It is 19 miles from the Buddhist Temple to Killarney Station. I saw when I went out there today, the flyover over 436 is finished. I'll have to ride back that way. The problem is you have to ride through a REALLY bad section of Apopka to get to the very start of the trail. I mean so bad there used to be the outline of a body from a murder victim on the trail kind of bad. I don't need to go to the trailhead that much.

I did my first brick of the season. I didn't run the whole way. I was tired after about 15 minutes, it was 85 degrees, winds gusting to 20 pmh and I didn't have any fluids. I really need to get a new bladder for my camelback. I did run/walk for 57 minutes though which is the longest I've done that in that kind of heat. I am definitely going to have to train for that if I want to do the half-iron.

I did run/walk a little more than five miles and then immediately did an out and back for a 38 mile ride. When I started the ride, I measured how far the run was and it came back as 6.12 miles. I knew that wasn't right, so I started looking for markings from trailhead to trailhead. At the end of the ride my mileage read 44.44 miles and I knew the ride was about 38. I figured when the battery died back in April on my computer, the thing wasn't set for my wheel size. I was bummed. I thought I had done a 60 mile ride a couple of weeks ago and it turned out to be only 51 miles. As soon as I was done I went straight to Locomotion and got that adjusted.

I felt fine today, no soreness or anything. I really need to make up my training calendar this week to get ready for Maine and see if Clermont is even remotely possible in October. I just keep telling myself you aren't going to win it, just finish it.