Ironman training week 30 - 3 weeks to go

Good lord, 30 weeks? And I've manage to blog them? That's the real challenge, here, trying to find something to say every week.

This week was not as originally planned, but overall I'm in a good spot to start TAPER. Although with the lack of running I feel like I've already been tapering for about 2 weeks, but hey, the 5 week long taper, it's the newest thing. Everyone is going to be doing it!

Swim: 9550m (biggest swim week ever!)
Bike: 246 km
Run: 6.67 km (damn it I'm claiming that .67)

Monday: rest day

Tuesday: 3000m swim; TR Elwell

Originally I had been planning to try a run, but after sitting at work all day on Monday, my achilles and shin were both aching a bit, and I figured I'd better go another day. Frustrating! And then the TR workout was this beastly nonsense which is just a hell of a way to end off the training plan. I remember this series of workouts from before Muskoka two years ago and they are not even a little bit fun. Especially since I've so been enjoying NOT doing VO2 max work.

Wednesday: 3050m swim

Again, no run. Getting frustrated, I finally made an appointment for a massage on Thursday and to see a new physiotherapist on Friday and get some potential answers/relief for whatever was going on with my leg/back/who the hell knows.

Good swim, though! How it ended up with an extra 50m, I dunno.

Thursday: TR - Polar Bear

Did this in the morning because I was home with the kids to take them to the dentist, and I figured I wouldn't be in any shape to do anything after the massage in the late afternoon. Last time through the two hour tempo ride for this training cycle! I am not going to miss doing that ride. Two hours steady effort on the trainer takes mental toughness. I wouldn't say it got easier the more often I did it, but I did learn some mental tricks to get through these rides that will hopefully serve me well on race day.

Apropos of nothing, Ironman training is one way to feel a lot more comfortable in a bikini...

Then a little time on the beach with the monsters before I got thoroughly beaten up, I mean, massaged. If I learned anything from that massage, it's that it's not just my left back/hamstring area that's super fucked up, it's also the quads. Which would then be confirmed by the physiotherapist on Friday...

Friday: rest day

I felt a weird combination of sore but also much better on Friday after the massage clearly loosened up all kinds of issues on my left side. Then I went to physio after work, which was even more eye opening - not only do I have the nerve impingement issues from the sciatica in my back, I've also got one in the front on the left side which was causing the shin discomfort. And my hips are out of whack and there's a muscle on the left side of my back that isn't activating properly and I'm pretty much a giant ball of issues.

So, got the physio treatment, and again leaving aside the general feeling like I'd been beaten up on the left side of my body, I could tell overall I was feeling pretty much normal again. Nothing like having a therapist wrestle your hips back into alignment to solve your problems!

Saturday: 163k ride

Aw these lovely folks. Fab of course, who is so freaking ready for this Ironman thing, and I can't wait to see him out on the course! And Zindine and Mellen who just did Lake Placid and thought 163k would be a great recovery ride, because they are awesome friends and possibly slightly mad. Turns out Zin is much easier to keep up to if he just does an Ironman the week before, so he'll just have to keep alternating ironmans one weekend, long rides the next, I guess. HA.

Also, BUTTER TARTS and CRAZY EYES

The whole ride felt fantastic, which is kind of mind boggling. A few years ago riding 100k was exhausting! Now I can churn out 100 miles and finish feeling fresh and not even really tired?! I guess that's what steady, consistent training can get you. It's really something what your body can adjust to and start to find normal.

Sunday: 6.67km run; 3500m swim

Running! Feeling normal!! Physio suggested a 40 minute run to test things out, so that's why the weird distance. The first couple of km my entire body was like 'um, we thought we were done with running? why is this happening?' but once I settled in everything felt normal and good. And so far no negative fall out from the run, so I think we are back in business here. I'm going back to physio tomorrow, and will keep the running short for the next little while, because the bigger picture here is to get to the start line in (less than) 3 weeks healthy, not to try and cram in some stupid amount of running now and injure myself. The fitness is there. The run was always going to be a run/walk, so there's no need to go nuts trying to make up for lost workouts.

Capped things off with a long swim that felt amazing. Now if I could just figure out how to hold that pace in a wetsuit...

I wanted to get in the Trainerroad workout I'd missed on Friday (Whorl, which is a very easy 1:15 spin, just for some additional aerobic time), but then our hot water heater died. Since I had no desire to take a cold shower after a trainer ride, I dropped it out of the schedule. Sometimes outside forces conspire against you!

So, now it's technically the first week of tapering, but that will really end up only applying to the long bike getting shorter, and I kind of feel like I've already started what with missing a bike and the lack of running. But if I'm not in shape for this at this point, there's not a lot to be done, so I'm just going to trust my training, follow the plan, and get to the start line happy and ready to go.

Good number. Let's get ready to do this thing.

Ironman training week 29 - 4 weeks to go

Well, cutting straight to the point, I'm not fully healthy, which is so immensely frustrating so close to the race that I can't EVEN. Especially watching my friends do amazing work at Lake Placid yesterday, which stirred up a lot of Feelings and Nerves and gah it's all so complicated and terrifying right now.

Swim: 8650m
Bike: 204km
Run: 16k

So, what's the situation. Wednesday my left achilles felt weird and stiff after running, which I did not care for, not one little bit. I wouldn't call it exactly painful, but just not right. And it kind of came and went throughout the day, sometimes bothering me, sometimes feeling fine. It was very stiff when I woke up on Thursday, so I didn't run, and again on Friday, although less so. I kept up cycling and swimming, but decided not to run, since it seemed like the smarter option than potentially creating a huge issue running on a possibly injured achilles.

Saturday was second verse, same as the first, so stiff when I woke up, but much less than it had been previously, and as I was driving to meet Christina to do a long bike ride, I also realized I was having some pretty significant sciatic nerve pain, and had been, again off and on, for several days. The sciatic stuff is something that I'm so used to sometimes I don't really process that I'm feeling it for a few days, especially since it comes and goes, and I change my sitting position to adjust for it without even thinking about it.

(Also just last week I was telling Zindine how happy I was that I'd gotten in the run volume I have to this point and my sciatica has been quiet, which OMG way to tempt the universe, there, smart guy. Let me just travel back in time and smack myself for that one).

Once I clued in I was also having sciatic pain, I realized what I was feeling in my ankle really felt more like an extension of the nerve issue, rather than an actual achilles problem (especially since massaging the area didn't find any tender spots or pain). I spent a load of quality time with my foam roller on Saturday afternoon working my usual trigger points, which did indeed seem to make a big difference, and I woke up Sunday morning feeling normal. No stiffness in the ankle, no pain in the hamstring, nothing.

That said, though, I'm feeling pretty skittish about a potential injury here. And paying perhaps too much attention to every little thing I'm feeling in my left leg ("wait, does my shin always feel like that when I sit cross legged at work? Does the outside of my ankle hurt now?! Is my right leg hurting now?!"). I'm feeling like I should be very cautious re-introducing running, since at 4 weeks to race day, well, I'd rather do minimal running and get there healthy than crank the volume back up and risk something going badly.

So, the plan is to do an easy short run tomorrow morning and see what happens. One day at a time, and if anything feels wonky or off, I'll be off to see my physio and get a handle on things. Hopefully this will all just end up with me being Super Dramatic about a minor slightly different than usual sciatic flare up!

With all that, I still got in some solid swimming and biking. This was always supposed to be a bit of recovery week before the last big two weeks; just ended up a little more tipped towards recovery than it should have been.

Monday: 2800m swim

Pretty fond of this Monday night swim time. The pool is empty, generally, other than that one guy who does the splashiest breaststroke of all time, but I figure that's just good open water practice for when I turn my head to breathe and get a face full of water instead.

Tuesday: 7.5k run; TR Rogers+2

Ah, before the week got stressful and weird. Still really like how the clouds look in the reflection in this picture.

Wednesday: 8k run; 2500m swim

Oh, you ran at sunrise and took backlit pictures? SHOCKING. Shut up, I get a kick out of these and I think I'm getting better at framing them.

The Wednesday evening swim is nice too, but the pool is usually busier, at least until the lifeguards shut down the waterslides and clear out at 8. But it is awfully nice to get it done and then go home and curl up in the king size bed, instead of hauling my butt out of bed at 5 am and going to work after.

plus after everyone else goes home I can play with my GoPro without weirding anyone out

(so in love with the new king size bed we got. I regret we waited so long.)

Thursday: TR Piute

Little spin. Got pretty sweaty by the end. Days with only one workout are weird.

Friday: TR Petit

Tried to watch Suicide Squad. Good lord that's a terrible movie. And I say this as someone who adores comic book movies and has watched the Captain America movies an embarrassing number of times. It's just really astonishing how very very wrong they got this one.

Saturday: 115k bike

No really, one workout days are WEIRD. But at least this one was super fun! Met up with Christina early and we did about 100k. With Fab away at a training camp I had to do the pulling (what's up with THAT), but we held a solid pace. I tacked on a bit at the end to get my ride time up to 4 hours and overall, really happy with how the bike felt. You know you are deep into Ironman training when a 100k ride isn't really even tiring...

Christina badly needed coffee. Always caffeinate before your ride, people!

I'M ADORABLE. Yes I deliberately matched one hair elastic to the jersey and one to the helmet. Shut up. Cycling is 90% style.

"Stop taking selfies and just pull already"

Saturday afternoon foam roller time, plus the spikey ball of pain.

Finished Suicide Squad. No, seriously, that movie made no sense at all. I now have to go watch Thor Ragnorak or something to cleanse it from my mind.

Sunday: 3350m swim

Really solid swim early at the gym. I debated running after because I was feeling normal but kind of did a risk benefit analysis and decided the benefits of two more days off running probably outweighed the risks of running. Since I would need to keep the run short to be cautious, there wouldn't be that much training benefit to doing, say, 8k. Plus it was pouring rain, so that wasn't super appealing anyway.

I spent the day glued to the Ironman Placid tracker, feeling alternately motivated and terrified, and did a lot of laundry. It was a productive day in its own right!

Now I see what happens when I get up and run tomorrow. Plan is ten minutes at a time, then see how it feels. Fingers crossed everything is back to normal and I'm just being a big drama queen right now...

Ironman training week 28 - 5 weeks to go

Right to the facts:

Swim: 5640m (?)
Bike: 305 km
Run: 39k (?!)

Explanation on those reduced swim and run numbers down in the Sunday section. Although any week where you miss a couple of workouts and still do almost 17 hours must be an Ironman peak training week...

Monday: 2600m swim

The kids were off visiting their grandparents for the week, so when Fab said he was thinking about doing a Lake Ontario swim, the gears started turning and next thing I knew we had a nice group headed down to see how the big lake was doing.

Got stuck in traffic so not into the wetsuit yet. Get it together, girl.

Taking GoPro selfies off shore is tougher than you'd think. 

Post swim smiles with Christina

The swim was slow, but good. The city seems to have the buoys marking the swim area much further apart than usual, which made sighting a huge pain in the ass and I kept finding myself suddenly heading out into the middle of the lake, until I realized I needed to keep the sun in about the same spot every time I breathed towards shore, which straightened me out. Previous years I'm pretty sure they were 150-200m apart, but this year they seem more like 300-400. Just took a bit of adjustment (plus they are tiny and hard to see!). Glad to have gotten down there on a calm day, as I heard things got pretty choppy for people swimming later in the week.

Tuesday: 16k run; TR Frissell +2

I had to take my husband to the train station Wednesday morning, so my usual long midweek run would have meant getting up even more ridiculously early. So it made sense to do the 16k run on Tuesday instead, even that meant tired legs going into the evening's threshold workout.  You do what you have to do to fit it in.

Bumped into Amy starting her run!

Sunrise. Not bad.

The run was slow and steady and overall fine. Then Trainerroad in the evening for 1:45 which was just uggggggggggggggggh because I'm sorry but Tuesdays are supposed to be an hour, maybe 1:15, tops. Knock it off with that stuff Coach Chad!

Wednesday: 7.5k run; TR Whorl; 3000m swim

Unusual Wednesday, but I was planning ahead to 1) have a rest day on Friday and b) sleep in Thursday because Thursday's workout was probably the scariest one in the whole plan.

Yeah yeah yeah sunrise silhouette, sticking with what works.

The trainer ride was a very easy (boring) spin, then a solid 3k in the pool after. If I'm remembering right, I slept pretty well that night! Much easier to manage that sort of nonsense with the kids away, that's for sure.

Also, I picked up the best burrito of my life after the swim. Worth it.

Thursday: TR Polar Bear (2 hours tempo) + 15k run

Yeah. Biiiiiig workout for a Thursday. I have not really been looking forward to this one, just because 3 1/2 hours on a Thursday is RIDIC. We have jobs, coach Chad! Augh!

But I was kind of looking forward to seeing how it would go, since it would be a pretty good fitness test. And with the kids away and my husband off on a business trip, what the hell else was I going to do with a Thursday evening? (don't answer that, I'm sure there's a million better things I could have done...)

Anyway, the ride was solid, and then the run felt...great. like the whole run felt amazingly easy. I upped significantly the number of calories I would normally take in on a 2 hours trainer ride, and then did a shot (literally) of salted maple syrup in between the ride and the run.

(what, that's not weird, is it?)

Lots of fluids on the run, just very focused on running easy and steady, didn't even stop to take any pictures, and it was really, really good.

So tired I couldn't figure out how to take a non blurry picture and just said to hell with it, there's like 5 people reading this anyway (hi guys!)

And the best part is, I get to do it again soon. HAHAHA. Man I hope the second time around goes as well...

Friday: rest!

Picking up the kids, back to regularly scheduled programming. Which of course meant...

Saturday: 165k ride

Long ride Saturday! So this got planned out early in the week, when as our route planner I realized I was SO BORED of our usual ride routes and wanted to head more north than usual. With 165k to play with, you can cover a lot of ground. Zindine and I rapidly realized that his group could do 100k out of Georgetown, and Fab, Christina and I could ride the ~30k to their meetup point and back to get in the 160 or so we needed. So that's what we did! We started at 6 am, had to make a minor detour around some construction, but still managed to arrive in Georgetown for 7:15.

damn that looks far

Then it was off to climb the hills of Caledon, getting almost to Orangeville, before heading back and making the obligatory bakery stop in Erin.

climb climb climb

Sugar twists so fresh they were still warm!

Mellen taking pro-level selfie while I'm trying not to look like my mouth is full of sugar twist

Really fun ride, and I finished it feeling really great. The hills didn't bother me, I was comfy on the bike, I got in my nutrition and fluids without having to force anything, and was just really, really happy with this as a training ride. Plus I got to see some of my friends doing Lake Placid and wish them good luck!

Sunday: unplanned rest day

OK, what happened here. This was supposed to be a long run and a swim. But back up to Saturday afternoon, where after I got home we spent a few hours moving furniture around to make room for our new bed (king size luxury for the win, yo) and shifting our old bed into the teenager's room. Good times.

Love the new bed, but I perhaps didn't do as much post-race hydration as I should have.

Plus, new bedframe, mattress, bedding, etc; well, sometimes that shit offgasses weird chemicals. Although I slept well Saturday night, when I woke up to get ready for my run, I was really dizzy and lightheaded. I pretty quickly made the decision to just go back to bed and sleep a few more hours (by which point it was getting far too hot and humid to run).

By around 8 I was feeling fine again, but at that point I'd already written off the day of training and figured I was better off taking a rest day. I certainly wasn't going to start a long run at that point. Heat and humidity are bad enough without full sun, and in case I was getting sick I figured rest was better. So I did a lot of laundry, took the teen to the mall, made a nice dinner, and basically had a super relaxing normal person day.

I'm not worried at all about missing the swim (in fact the swim plan I've been very loosely following only had two swims on the schedule this week, if I remember right), and although I'd have liked to get in the run, I'm not worrying about that either. I'm not trying for Kona or anything here and the run is going to be a walk/run/shuffle anyway, so being a long run down isn't really a big deal.

At this point, the fitness is either there or it isn't, and I've done the work. Just a few more weeks left...

Ironman training week 27 - 6 weeks to go!

I took two naps on the weekend, so I think it's safe to say we are entering the peak training weeks here.

Swim: 9050m
Bike: 248km
Run: 66km

I looked it up and that's the most run mileage I've done in a week since I trained for the Mississauga Marathon back in 2014! And then I was only running, not adding in all this other nonsense. That's kind of blowing my mind, to be honest. I remember how tiring I found marathon training, and now I'm running just as much but also swimming and biking? It's amazing what your body can adjust to, really, if you are patient in how you build it up.

Also my highest swim mileage ever, by 50m. (woo!). And a solid week of cycling, too, resulting in my highest training hours ever (18:26). So pretty much firing on all cylinders heading into a peak week this week.

(I really really don't know how I'm going to adjust back to normal levels of activity once this is all over. You can get used to a hell of a lot of training, it turns out, and it starts to feel really weird if I 'only' do a short workout or just one sport in a day).

Monday:  rest

Tuesday: 3000m swim; TR Stromlo +1

Sunrise as I headed into the pool

The husband was home with the kiddies for the week, meaning I was able to head straight to work from the pool instead of having to go back home, which seemed a good opportunity to do a longer swim. Felt solid and then went to work and had two breakfasts, as one does.

(three meals a day are not enough meals at the moment)

Trainer in the evening, short-ish efforts at FTP which probably do all sorts of good training things but I was caught up watching a movie and not paying attention to the instructions. It was good. Glad for a bit of a break from VO2 max to be honest.

Wednesday: 16k run; 2600m swim

Ironman training: Yes, there is a 5 am in the morning, and you should probably get used to seeing it

Do I enjoy getting up before 5 so I can run 10 miles before work? Not particularly. But I think these midweek longish runs are super beneficial, so I'm sucking it up and getting it done.

It helps if you spend most of the run planning out a fun instagram pic

Pool in the evening after dinner. I think this was some sort of form workout with a bunch of drills, but I can't remember. Didn't drown, so I'll count it as successful.

Thursday: 8k run; TR - Ragged

I love getting up at 5 am to run! really! No lie! Kind of a lie! Oh god is this over yet I cannot wait to SLEEP IN for like two weeks straight.

Morning run, evening trainer, blah blah blah etc etc and on until eternity. This is fun. Really. Totally fun.

Friday: 10k run; TR-Whorl

sometimes sunshine DOES fly out of my butt, yes.

Shockingly, another early morning run (I didn't run Monday or Tuesday so had to run on Friday. Rearranging things a bit this week because I really prefer to take Friday off running leading into the weekend). Easy spin on the trainer after work because the plan said so.

Saturday: 140k bike; 5k run

OK now THIS was fun. 140k with Fab and Christina. The weather was on the cooler side compared to last weekend, and the three of us just work so well together on the bike it makes things go so smoothly. We are all right around the same strength/speed level so we can ride pretty efficiently. Totally fun and makes the long hours on your butt in the saddle go by a lot faster! Plus it was a gorgeous day and gotta love enjoying the summer weather on two wheels.

After the ride the family and I went out for lunch, where I inhaled this nonsense in about 30 seconds. Blue cheese burger and onion rings. Yum.

I then regretted it when I went out for my easy 5k recovery run in the evening, but it was worth it at the time.

Sunday: 27k run; 3450m swim

Gosh I wonder if I got up early to go for a run on Sunday. Ha. Just typing all this out is making me feel like I need a nap. Ironman training is dumb.

I appear to be taking the exact same picture over and over again lately. Gotta figure out something more creative...

Long run, very easy paced, took my time. Felt really good through most of it, other than one bathroom stop and the last 2k or so got a little rough, but that seems to happen every run and is more mental than anything else. Stopping at the splash pad to soak down my hat helped!

Later in the morning, a solid swim workout. Felt smooth and controlled through the whole thing, without losing my form much at the end, which considering it was 3000m+ is really encouraging.

So, on to the next week, which is a bit of a bear and is likely to be one of the two biggest weeks of the whole training shebang. Not sure if I'm excited or scared, really, but the only way forward is one day at a time...

Ironman training week 26 - Specialty plan week 1

First week of the last 8 week block, which means things are getting close and it's time to build up that last little bit of fitness and then hopefully be ready to accomplish something cool in August. Basically a solid month of hard long distance training to go.

How'd week one go? I'm having some trouble remembering given my last two days were spent mostly doing stuff like the below, but I'll give it a shot.

Swim: 8500m
Bike: 226 km
Run: 57 km

Not bad!

Monday: 3000m swim; 8km run

Getting some stuff done on Monday because I'd had a rest day on Friday and wanted to space things out a little bit for the week. Early morning swim (finally managed to haul my ass out of the door early enough to get in a 3000m weekday swim!) felt pretty good.

Then an easy 8k in the evening, which I barely remember, but I do really like the Welland finisher hat. It's a nice lightweight fabric and a colour combo I don't have in another hat, so it's going to see a lot of use I think!

Tuesday: FTP test

Usually Tuesdays are intense, so this was a change. The new FTP test on Trainerroad only takes about a half an hour, and it only really hurts for maybe 8-10 minutes as you ramp up your effort as high as you can until you fail. Got a solid 10 watt increase leading into the last block, and I was glad to have had a day of mostly rest leading into the test.

Wednesday: 14k run; TR-Whorl

Woke up to the sound of an absolute downpour outside, but by the time I was dressed and ready to go it had passed over and it ended up being a dry run, other than the puddles. Solid 14, can't complain. Then in the evening I did what would normally be the Friday night easy spin, but with all the schedule rearranging I was doing for the week it made sense to get it done a little earlier.

Thursday: 130k bike;  6k run

No point in hiding your age when you are a triathlete - they just write it on your leg anyway.

Riding around in circles on a beautiful day

 A little bit different than usual. Thursday was my birthday (cue balloons) so I took the day off work and went for a long solo ride. Not going to lie, I got pretty bored by the end, but I was satisfied to get in the distance.

Nothing tastes better 100k into a ride than a can of ice cold Coke.

Short run in the evening, nothing fancy, just keeping the legs moving. And earning my cake!

Friday: 4100m swim

damn it should have turned on the backlight. I swear, I did swim 4100!

Birthday celebrations continued Friday morning when I went to the pool to do my age workout. I've always wanted to try the age x 100s swim, but until this year I didn't have access to a pool with long enough hours for the time it would take to swim my age.

In the end, swimming 4100 felt surprisingly easy! I guess all this consistent swimming is paying off in endurance. I swam the 100s on 2:15, which gave me a pretty generous 15 seconds minimum between each one, which I chose deliberately to try and be consistent across the whole swim. It worked out well; I did all but one 100 under 2 minutes and was pretty consistently on 1:57ish for most of them. I did take a short break halfway through to chug a bottle of sports drink. Better to stay hydrated, even in the pool!

So although this was more of a novelty thing, I'm glad I did it because it felt like a good confidence boost. Decent mental training, too, because that is a bit of a grind.

Saturday: Polar bear + 9k brick run

I was really, really not looking forward to this one. In order to avoid taking my bike up to the cottage for the weekend, I had to get up at 5 to get the 2 hour tempo ride plus brick done before we left.

Now, I love my trainer. I love Trainerroad. But I LOATHE both early in the morning. I would much rather swim or run in the morning. Something about getting up and getting on the trainer is just awful. But sometimes you just have to suck it up, and that's what I did. 2 hours tempo, one bathroom break in the middle. Did not enjoy it, but I did it.

Expressing my feelings about the weather when I ran into Amy during my brick run

And then the brick, which uggggggggh. It was a really, really hot and humid weekend, and about halfway through the brick that really hit me. The last 4k were pretty miserable. I had to lie down for about 10 minutes when I got home and then guzzle about 2 liters of water before I started to feel like a normal person again.

But then we drove to the cottage and got to do this about 5 minutes after we arrived and it was BLISS.

Kid jumps off dock for the first of many

Sunday: 20k long run; 1400m open water swim

The cottage isn't air conditioned, so that made sleeping Saturday night just super fun. So it was with great reluctance I pried myself out of bed at 5 am, but I knew if I didn't go early the run would just be a complete disaster. The humidity level was completely insane and even at 5:15 it was feeling pretty warm.

Fortunately, my brother was game for the run and willing to slow it down to stay with me, so we did two 10k loops. I actually managed to keep my heart rate pretty well down for the whole thing, and even with how hot and humid it was the run felt pretty good!

I have a little bit of regret about not tacking on another 5k at the end to at least get to two and a half hours, but when we got back to the cottage at the end of the second loop the lake was just too tempting.

Really how every run should finish

Later in the morning I did a short open water swim, mostly just so dragging my open water swim gear up with us wasn't a total waste of time.

Open water action pics via my mom

Lake creature emerges successfully

There was a lot of boat traffic on the lake, though, and even with my swim buoy I wasn't entirely comfortable with how close some of the jetskiers in particular were coming to the shoreline. Plus the lake was really choppy and the wake coming off the boats was making for some challenging conditions. So a half hour seemed like plenty to earn myself some lunch and an afternoon of relaxing by the water/on the swim dock with a few tasty adult beverages!

swim out to dock, dry off in sun, swim back to land, enjoy tasty beverage. Repeat!

Fabulous week capped off with an amazing weekend with lots of time spent swimming and relaxing with the kids. A great start to the summer of Ironman and the last training block. Bring on the next week!