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Brian:
Week 6 tri update: 4500m swim, 28.2mi bike, 11.6 mi run. Highlight: I did speed work running and swimming and felt strong. Lowlight: Used 10 inches of rain and hoops as an excuse to skip 3 workouts.

Week 7 tri training summary. Swim: 3950m. Bike: 69.4 mi. Run: 19.1 mi. Highlights: 38 mile ride in 70 degree sun and 9.5 mile hill run with Su. Lowlight: Continuing shoulder soreness from swimming. Still can’t get to sleep regularly before 1am.

Susan:
3/8 – 14: The upside of delayed flight testing in Florida was the chance to run in warm weather most afternoons. I even did intervals one day to make the most of my 45-minute time window and got 2 solid hours on the 11th around the bayou. Four days, 30.8 miles. The warm weather felt terrific. I opted to get outside instead of lifting, but I did pushups and crunches in my hotel room.

3/15 – 21: Two coworkers and I have gotten into a pretty good routine, so we ran two days at lunchtime this week. I cut out “early” on Thursday to run a long loop with Beej. I logged 18 miles yesterday, first to Parker River and back – couldn’t resist hitting the beach for some barefoot running and getting my toes in the ocean a little – then the last 3 with Beej as an easy cool down. My ankle stabilizers are sore but yoga this morning loosened things up. FIVE days (in a row!), 40 miles. Happy spring – it was so nice to hear the birds and get to enjoy the reservoirs, ocean and marshes!

My favorite anecdote of the week: a mom, daughter and hyper son are leaving the beach the same time I am. Son takes off running as mom yells after him “NO RUNNING on the boardwalk!” several times. He’s listening but not really wanting to obey, and it’s clear he’ll take off running again at the slightest excuse – for example, someone like me to takes off running… on the boardwalk. Not to undermine the mom’s discipline, I ask her if it’s ok for me to run on the boardwalk, and tell her son that I got mom’s permission. She laughed and thanked me. Most of the parents we encountered yesterday were teaching their kids good trail manners, staying to the right and announcing their passes, and they need all the encouragement and support they can get!