Another Epic Weekend

The week preceding this weekend was far from epic, aside from me crying twice in 6 days, once on the bike while headed down (or up, since apparently the people who built the road thought it'd be fun to create a hilly road on the way down to the lake) to Folsom Lake. It wasn't pretty.

So I told myself I had to make up for the shitty week this weekend. Despite the record high temperatures (yesterday was 101 at least and today was at least 108) I got 101 miles on the bike on Saturday that I followed up with a 5 mile brick run. At the very end of this run I ran up Scarborough Road, this super steep road in my friend's neighborhood. Since the first time I tried to run up it I had to stop midway and put my head between my legs, I was proud that I made it all the way up without stopping. Then today I ran 20 miles in the morning (finished around 1140am when the temperature was already 98) and then 9 hours later, did an easy 3.5 mile run. This totals 101 miles biked and 28.5 miles run in one weekend. I actually ran 57 miles this week total since I decided I didn't want to swim anymore. That's the most I've ran since early 2008. Luckily, to make up for the current detesting of swimming, I bought a long-sleeve wetsuit today.

AND to top this weekend off, Jocelyn came to visit and do some heat training for her upcoming iron in Korea. It was fun to see her and go out to dinner with her and some of my friends from work. Unfortunately we didn't get to train together, but she would have kicked my ass anyways!