Testing Day Recap!

Sunday was a blast! It was nice suffering on the bike with everyone else, it made it a lot easier to push myself. I took it out pretty fast at the beginning, and my legs started to feel the hurt after a few minutes. I'm super competitive though, and had to keep it up. I just kept thinking to myself "you want to be an Ironman, if you can't take the hurt for half an hour, you're screwed." I was pretty pleased with the results. I know that the trainer doesn't correspond to real life, but it's nice when you see good numbers up there. I was pretty surprised at my power, I honestly didn't think that I would put up numbers anywhere near that. I'm fairly new to cycling, and although I know I have good legs (partly from water polo) I still don't really have confidence in my cycling ability.

I think one of us from the first group should thank Mary for the scheduling. It was so nice getting into the pool after sweating in the "pain cave." I was surprised with how well the swim videos came out with the Train-This Coach Cam (Trademarked, Copyrighted, and patent pending, I think). I figured it would be harder for her to keep everything in frame with the camera on the other end of the broom, in the water, with no feedback of what she's getting. Color me impressed. I'm anxious to get the analysis back, although I think I know some of what she will say. My right elbow definitely needs to come up, and I've always had trouble keeping my head down. We'll see what else Mary has to say. I'm just glad she didn't fall in!

The best/most interesting part of the day was lunch at the vegan cafe. I wasn't too adventurous, I just got corn chowder and and a spinach salad. It was good, especially the chowder. I loved meeting everybody. I sat next to Stephanie, David, and the Debs. They're some of the nicest people I've met! I can't wait for more team activities, it was great.

This weekend I have a water polo tournament. I'm pretty excited, I think there's only going to be one real game, against Kitchener-Waterloo. I'm planning on getting up early Saturday to get in my ride, then heading over to Webster to help set up the pool. Then I'll get my run in somewhere between games. If any Train-Thisers are curious about what water polo's all about you're more then welcome to come check out some games! Let me know, and I can tell you when the Rochester team's playing. That's all I have for now.

186 days to IMLP.
192 until the wedding!