I also look forward to these breaks to catch on all the things that pile up during the week and to spend time with friends and family.  I am not really competitive and I typically finish an event around the middle of my age bracket so these recovery days go a long way to keep me in balance with work and personal life.

Tomorrow we have “brick” workouts — bike rides followed by runs.  These condition our bodies to transition from biking into running as there is a tendency to feel like a pretzel after riding a long distance.  Depending on which team I train with tomorrow (olympic or half), I will either be doing short brick “repeats” or a long 35-45 mile ride followed by a 20 minute run.

Either way, it will be a good training day if the weather holds up.

We also got word that our first ocean swim day on Sunday has been postponed until the following Sunday.  I was really looking forward to getting into the ocean though the water temp is only in the mid-50s.  Oh well…