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Best way to replenish and be ready for the next race. Sleep! Your body has the natural ability to repair and be ready for the next challenge with Sleep. Thanks to Lisa Mikkelsen for this simplistic, but very valuable advice!
I am running the Reach the Beach relay on September 16 - 17th and want to make certain I am properly prepared and ready for the century so I checked in with Lisa, former coach and expert!
In other efforts to be prepared for this large endurance events, I joined up with the Greater Framingham Running Club crew this morning. Phyllis Lowry, The Leonards, and Jeff guided me through the Callahan state park for an 11 mile trail journey. Running on trails through Callahan is one of the greatest Sunday morning activites. Accomplishment before 10AM! Lots of jokes were thrown around about lack of fires and tires, and perhaps the run would be too easy for me and I wouldn't be crowned Warrior Queen when arriving back at my car. :P Funny Group!
As soon as I arrived home, I jumped on my bike to meet Coach Jeremy for a long ride. We planned for 40 - 50 miles. I fueled up a lot before the ride, but only felt "good" for the first 1.5 miles! I pushed hard up hills, but completely fell apart on the flat windy parts. I felt awful for poor Jeremy having to druge along as I druged along! But he's a really sweet guy and lover of biking so I try to tell myself that he's happy with his community service and likes to ride anyway! We biked all the way to Bedford and Lexington. It was mighty hot outside at 1pm so I suggested riding over to Walden for a quick swim. I already chalked the ride up to "getting the miles in" and breaks were welcome at every occasion. And we broke - we found a "watering hole" in Bedford, but it was $9 for the watering hole, but we gazed at it just the same. I broke the stares with a promise of better things at Walden Pond. And the quick dip in the pond was exceptionally awesome and re-charged me for a couple more miles - but unforunately, we had more than a couple miles back to home base. Do you remember when I mentioned I was tired at 1.5 miles? I also meant to bring a GOO on the journey, but ran out too quickly.
ICE CREAM
Ha! Jeremy had a solution for my lack of energy. We got ice cream in Lexington center. I had a big huge ice cream cone of Dinosaur Crunch. I was so delirious and tired that I didn't even scrutinize the name enough or test it to find out that Dinosaur Crunch was really just Vanilla ice cream with blue food coloring and a couple sprinkles. It was super tasty just the same, but an actual crunch might have been nice?
We made it home and I did not fall. Victory for the weekend! check plus!
Also bike computer did not work for this ride........... BOGUS!
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