Weekend Wrap-up

OK.  So a nice solid long weekend passed, even with dealing with some weather as well.  I decided to go long on Saturday with the ride and Sunday with the run, even though this was supposed to be a recovery week.  Was able to sleep in and hit the road at 8:30am and did 53 miles over 3 hours.  Felt good, had a nice combo of flats early and some hills late, and never got the HR into the 90% range.  Sunday was going to be a 1h/2h brick since I needed a long run, but it rained all day long.  About 6pm the rain stopped, the clouds stayed, and I hit the road at 7:30 for a 2h 06m run.  I only covered 11.75 miles so ran at a 10:46 clip, but the goal was a low exertion long run.  My heart rate only was out of zone 3 once on a nice 500ft climb over .75 miles.  That is a killer hill at mile 8.  Good news was I felt very strong at the end and could have put another few miles on with little exertion.

Goal for the weekend was to make up the long ride & run missed last weekend, but not kill myself heading into two tough weeks.  Mission accomplished.