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DAY OFF

It is a much needed day off today! Yesterday was master's swim and the eclipse adventure and with another big weekend of work outs coming...its definitely time for a night off to hang out with Donny and the boys.
I am feeling better and better about  my swim. Craig (the masters coach) told me yesterday my freestyle stroke is looking good! That was a huge boost! Now if i could just get the bike down. I am still getting used to the new bike...i've only had it for a while, so I need to give myself a break.
We are coming up on our half ironman in just a couple of weeks though, and I know its crazy hilly, so hopefully i will be ready!
I was reading the IMAZ tri email talking about where we should be 3 months til race time and it was saying we should already have a few 80 milers under our belts and feel comfortable. that is pretty worrisome! The farthest we have gone is 75 miles and we've only done it once!! EEKS!
The other thing that bothered me was it said we should be doing 20 and 30 min runs off the bike...I did that on my own last week...but we have only done 10 min runs off of the bike....hmmmmm? i'm trying to trust the process but its a little nervewracking when other people are training for a race the week before ours and are doing a long ride and 30 min run and then the same run we are doing the next day. why aren't we doing that too?? again...gotta trust the process i guess.
Still trying to figure out what the fuel is going to be on the race course. I will have to do some more investigating because I couldn't find anything other than Cliff on the website...well what from cliff will be on the course??
We have a bunch of people coming to watch us, which is super cool! Tom and Shelley are the latest cheerleaders to join. I'm so excited but also sooo nervous about it all!!
This weekend's ride is a 4.5 hour ride and 3 hours is don't get off the bike at all! The beast and I are going to be very close in the next 3 months!! :)

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