Weeks 28-29- and 30 Time is a flying by.

With the increasing distances and intensity in the past couple of weeks, I have not had a chance to blog. Way too little time in a given amount of days I would say. So be it. But to summarize, after the 180K bike ride, I had an easy period in week 28 giving me a chance to rest, recuperate, re-energize and re-focus for the last couple of hard weeks left. I still had a long run of 32K. That run was not so great as I was trying to break in a new pair of shoes that day. Not too smart to start with a long run. The long and short of it was that I finished the run with very tender ankles from the stiffness of the new shoes.

The following week 30, the intensity stepped up again but since I was rested I merged into this hard week with little problems. The biggest news of all was that my shoulder was getting much better and my swims were so much more easier and at long last fun to be in the water. This week I also had a great ride of 120K and a long run of 24K that turned into 28K by mistake but whose counting. Everything is A OK.

The last hard week finally arrived and also completed that one feeling very well indeed. We capped off that week with a Tri relay with friend July and Darrell and myself with the anchor run leg. We all performed excellently that beautiful sunny day and I had a fantastic fast run. Our efforts for our team "The Cougar and Her Sugar Daddies" winning gold. 1 out of 1 in that category but who cares. Looking back at the results, we would have come tops in the mixed and masters category also. So we did ourselves proud. Even though my shoulder is so much better now I will keep my appointment for an ultrasound just to check it out and make sure my rotator cup is ok.

All the long hard work is now over and we now enter the 3 week taper phase. This phase will drop down the mileage drastically but Coach Al says the intensity still has to be there just to keep finally tuned and to keep the fast twitch muscles conditioned. 20 days to go before the big event! Yeaaaaaaahhh.......