I made it home from Disney

I made it home from Disney World, and it was actually pretty fun. Yeah the working part of the trip was a drag, but my work ensured to entertain us during our off time. Tuesday night after work I got in a little recovery workout, and then went to Epcot with the work folks. Dinner was served in the Grand American Ball and was followed by the Epcot Illumination water and laser show. Wednesday was another jam filled day of work meetings. After work I ran about 8 miles through part of the Disney 70.3 course in the Disney Wilderness Lodge and boy was it bugging hot! When I say bugging hot...I really mean bugging. When I returned from my run I was covered by these small black bugs. I guess considering Disney was built in a swamp, there still is those little creatures present.

Thursday was a travel day as I didn't get back in town till Thursday evening around 5:30 PM. Jen and I got our bikes ready, met up with our friend Heidi Austin (who just moved back in town from Pensacola FL) who also says she has biked with your favorite blogger Marit. When Heidi told me this, I thought, man is it a small world! After an hour warmming up with Jen and Heidi, it was time to kick it up a notch for a steady 45 minute tempo interval. My legs were still a little heavy from Eagleman, but they're coming back.

Friday was a very busy day. We had to get in a swim and a run today and neither one of us could get out of bed Friday morning, so we decided to do both workouts last night. I headed directly to the pool after work for close to 4000 yards (which consisted of 3000 yards of pull / no legs). It was a really hard workout, but not as hard as the track workout later that evening. The track workout last night was 5x1000's at 20 seconds faster then 5K pace per mile. Can you say OUCH!!!

So that's that. This weekend should be a good one filled with hours and hours of suffering as I've officially entered "Ironman" training.

posted by Chad Holderbaum @ 10:12 AM Comments: 1