Vampire Weekend

I spent the week thinking I'd do half of my 4-hr Saturday ride on the trainer and the other half outside. I couldn't even fathom riding indoors for four hours. I wanted to start at 4:30am because I also had to do a 1/2 hour run immediately after, but I realized on Friday that it would be too cold (for me, anyway) to ride outside at 6:30am. So, I had to suck it up and do all four hours on the trainer. FOUR HOURS pedaling and going nowhere. It was purely mind over matter. My MIL lent me the first season of True Blood on DVD, so I figured it was as good a time as any to start watching that. Wow! What the heck is my mother-in-law doing watching that stuff?? No matter. It made for very entertaining watching as I pedaled away in my basement. Nothing like a lot of blood, sex and gore first thing in the morning. I heard the first pitter-patter of little feet around 6:45 and quickly jumped off the bike and put it on Hulu where I could watch mindless sitcoms for the last 2 hrs.

My nutrition for those four hours consisted of: 5 sports bottles (4 sports drink, 1 water), 1 english muffin with peanut butter, and 4 chocolate Power Gels. 

Also, I had to get off the bike for a minute every hour just for a psychological break, and also for bathroom breaks, turning on the Wii for my son, refilling water bottles, and shutting off the soft-core vampire porn. 

I was supposed to stay in my Zone 2 heart-rate, but I was exhausted from running the night before, my legs were tired, and I stayed mostly in Zone 1 for the first 3 hours, spent most of the last hour in Zone 2, and then at 3:50 had to do 5 minutes of Zone 4, which was killer. My legs were totally spent. Amazingly, once I started running, I felt great and my heart-rate was right where it was supposed to be and my legs felt totally fine. 

The rest of the day was spent pulling my kids around in a wagon for an Easter Egg hunt, cleaning the house for my in-laws, putting together Easter baskets, and then in bed by 9pm to start all over again the next morning.

Happy Easter! This morning I had to do a 45-minute bike and a 90-minute run. I wanted to finish before the kids woke up, which is normally around 7am, so I was on my bike by 4:15am, did a 100 RPM ride while I watched another True Blood (an Easter classic!) and then ran out to Marblehead Neck and back before the sun was even fully up. I was home by 6:40! And it wasn't good enough! The kids had woken up at 5:30 and my husband had bravely kept them corralled in our bedroom for over an hour until I got home so I wouldn't miss the Easter festivities. It wasn't a good scene. The road to the Ironman is paved with Mommy guilt.

It was a hard weekend, but week 15 is done and my family hasn't disowned me yet. On to week 16......