Five Hours +

How do you spend a sick day?

Well, if you aren't too sick, the new preferred method is to ride indoors while watching Coach Troy's Spinerval 100 mile tape. Only 3 dvd's are needed to get through this 5-5:25 hour workout.

Jan insisted for two days this is what I wanted and we would be riding in the basement on Monday. I said, "no, how about 3 hours"? Jan said, "no, you are doing the whole thing with me." "how about 4 hours"? Jan said, "stop whining and get on the bike."

Jan rode 102 miles, I made it less, much less, but then my trainer used to be in the Flintstone's stone age house. Also she is a much better biker. One set of intervals (after 3 1/2 hours of riding) is 12x3 minutes and the second minute of each repetition you stand and pedal in a hard gear. I could do about 15 seconds, Jan did them all.

She is a showoff.

Maniac

"She's a maniac, maniac for triathlons
And she's training like she never trained before
She's a maniac, maniac on the bike
And she's biking like she never biked before"

Jan and I spent the morning after Valentine's Day riding to Coach Troy's three hour excursion of the Lake Placid IM course. I was tired when we were done. But, there was running to do. Of course, why not? We only worked out three hours! Did I mentioned being exhausted?

So we trudged outdoors, Jan bopping along like a rabbit down toward the village, dragging the anchor that was me, along behind. I could not stay up with her and she was not going to slow down. Damn her. It was like running with Frank Q, except instead of one step ahead she was 10-20 yards.

We completed about 5 miles and the remainder of my day was spent lumbering around in my pj's, staying close to the tv and couch. Jan kept moving, but agreed not to workout any more.