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August 20, 2006
4 Weeks till Lake Tahoe
Had a good week this week – was able to do several good bike rides, as well as a couple of good swim workouts.
Started out on Tuesday with an early morning bike ride, Wednesday with an early morning 6 mile run, then I took Thursday off. Friday was a 7 mile hill run in Paradise, then Saturday was the longest swim of my life – 3000 yards at In Motion Fitness. I wore my wetsuit, so that I can get better accustomed to having it on. This 1.7 mile swim took me just over an hour (1 hour, 3 minutes to be exact). Swimming just keeps getting easier and easier!!!!!
Sunday was a bike ride with one of my Durham friends – we did a repeat of the 53 mile Table Mountain loop I did last week. Even though this was a little slower paced than I’m used to, it still was a great ride. Very little traffic, and always lots of stuff to look at and talk about.
This was my last week of building mileage in the various disciplines. From this point forward, I will gradually taper down the amount of training, and increase the intensity of the sessions. This should put me in the best possible condition to do well in Tahoe.
By the way, my workouts with the Durham Masters was pretty shortlived - it seems last weekend some idiots decided to vandalize the pool - so now it looks like our pool is closed for the season. Thanks a lot, who ever did this!!!!
Posted by Dennis at August 20, 2006 03:08 PM