Global Warming my @$$!!

I always do my part to help reduce waste, conserve energy and recycle whenever possible. This is in an attempt to help offset the effects of global warming. If everyone does their part we could have a huge impact on our warming trends. That being said...I'm sick of this friggin' winter! We haven't had this much snow in 15 years, look at the picture above and add more to it. This weekend we had a snow/ice storm that dumped about 40cm on my driveway. Thankfully I have a neighbour who lets me use his snowblower so I was able to clean it up without breaking my back. I, like Mary Lou, will now stop talking about the weather, unless it gets worse!

On to my updates...

Well I'm back running again and am virtually pain free. I put in a few runs this week and have been fine during and after them. The hard part was getting back into it. My endurance seems to have fallen a bit and my HR seemed a little high while I was running. I did a brick on Saturday with a 2:50 bike and a 50 min run, bike was hard with some 85% intervals, but I felt good, then came the run. I actually had to go to a neighbours house to use their treadmill as it was in the middle of the snowstorm and could not run outside, and it was to crazy out to drive to the gym, so they were kind enough to let me run in their basement. My goal was to get into a 75% run and hold for 40 min then taper down to 50-60% for the last 10min. I did the 40 min OK but then slowed the treadmill down to get a drink and could not get started again, my legs just died! So I walked the last 10 min at a fast pace. The next day I had an hour run and made it through alright but my legs were still a little sore from the previous day.

Not much change on the bike and the swim, still plugging away on the trainer with some good drills in the Sub-LT zone and LT zones. I always feel like I'm not going to make it through in the LT zone but when you finish it always feels great. Most of my swims feel that way as well, not being that great of a swimmer, every drill seems daunting. When I finish a workout I'm always surprised that I swam that far. It was only a year ago that my swim workouts amounted to about 400-500m, now I'm at 3000m. Still trying to get faster, but it is coming very slowly.

I'm off to New York this week for some training at Cadence with Dianna. She put in my calendar that I was to have an easy day on Tuesday as it was going to be a tough couple of days in NY. That scares me a little. My last trip really wiped me out and I know she will be expecting more. Since I am only about 8 weeks away from Florida 70.3, I really need to get going so this week should be good. I am really hoping the weather is nice also so I can get in an outdoor ride and run. I also get to pick up the rest of my prizes which include 2 helmets, bike shoes, a wetsuit, nutritional supplements and a pair of the new ZOOT running shoes. I tried them on in October and they are super light, so I'm excited about running with them.

Well that's it for now,
Stay warm and keep training, spring is just around the corner,

Scott