Day 41, Happy Easter!!!!!!!

Day 41: Today was a long bike ride day and it completely kicked my butt! 5:45 am came early this morning since I have been lacking major sleep, but training calls. I headed out to Cartersville to do the Donkey ride again. Since Misty and I wanted to get in extra miles though we started riding at 7:30 and did 20 miles, then met up with everyone else and had a nice 52 mile ride. There was a good group of us that got together for an Easter Sunday ride! The weather in the morning was perfect it was cloudy so it kept a nice temperature. When Misty and I started out for the 20 miles I knew this was going to be a tough ride. My legs were so tired for yesterday's run. I could tell my cadence was down and this was not going to be fun. I survived the first 20 miles but it was slow and I knew that I had another 52 to do now at 9 am. We finally joined up with everyone and on we went for 52 miles and to my surprise  my legs we feeling ok. I think they just turned numb to the pedaling pain, but all I knew is I had to keep pushing even on the hills when they did hurt. I kept telling myself I have no idea how I am going to feel during Wisconsin Ironman so push through everything, because there is no giving up! About half way through the 52 mile ride with everyone the clouds that we were all loving went away and the sun was out and it was HOT!!!! We all pushed through and had a nice stop at the donkeys to feed them!

Then it was back to the Bud plant to finish up a total of a 73 mile ride!!! It took a lot longer then I had wanted but you can only pedal so hard when your legs just are not feeling it. After the ride Misty and I headed out for a 3 miles run which seemed like the hardest run ever. I ran the first 1.5 miles then did a walk/run the last 1.5, I wasn't happy about doing the walk/run but it was almost all I could do at this point. I forget how much my body hates running in the heat so I am really going to have to figure this out in case Wisconsin is hot. Also with this being my first full week back from almost two weeks off I was really feeling it every where in my body and it really showed me I really need to kick it into gear. So I am going to apologize to all my friends now that if I seem to disappear for a while I am just really focusing on this training so I can have the race of my life in Wisconsin, I am so excited to be able to race Ironman Wisconsin!

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - Vince Lombardi