I biked the Veyo Loop this morning. The wind was fierce and I have never done any cycling in that kind of wind, so I was extrememly slow. I had been on the bike almost 2 hours before I took my first nutrition break, and then all I had was some perpetuem. An hour later, I drank the rest of my perpetuem bottle, and had a few honey-roasted peanuts. The ride ended up being 58.5 miles, and it took me 4:26:49. By the time I finished, I had absolutely nothing left, but I knew I needed to try to get a transition run in, so I drank some gatorade and ate a couple of cliff rocks, switched shoes, and headed back out the door. I made it about 2.5 miles before my soleus locked up again, so I quit at 4 miles...and it took me 38:23 to do that much. After yesterday and today, I'm having serious doubts about whether or not I can actually DO an Ironman...but I'm going to put that out of my mind and keep doing the stuff I'm supposed to do, and not worry about it. |