The train keeps rolling on

Here's a quick catch up on the last few days. Saturday brought an early start (well, I guess we weren't THAT early) and spectacular weather for the first ride of the year over to the North Shore. It's hard to believe that we nearly hit June before getting across, but at least we finally made the most of it heading out to Horseshoe Bay, then up onto the Upper Levels and over to Cypress for the climb up to the first lookout. After cruising back home from there, I did a little 5 km jaunt off the bike to see how my legs would respond. I think "poorly" would be the word. My pace was good, but it was only near the very end of the run that I started to smooth things out and feel like I could actually do this whole bike-run thing.

Sunday was our first trip out to Sasamat Lake this year for practice tris with the club. We did some work on swim starts, which was fun and horrifying at the same time, and then I got in two swim-bike-run repeats that were about 600m-11km-1km each. I don't remember the hills out there being as nasty as they were on Sunday, so clearly I've lost a bit of my climbing fitness, but overall both training days went well. Especially considering Wednesday and Thursday evenings were both tough workouts.

With four high intensity and/or high volume workouts in five days, my body told me that the start of this week was time to take a little breather before the final 8-10 days of building for Victoria. I took Monday and Tuesday completely off except for my bike commute to work and with the rest, this morning's swim felt fantastic. Put in 3,000m in the pool and I'm excited for more bike-run repeats with the club tonight!

In other news, I enjoyed watching the Wings roll through the weekend to a 2-0 lead, but had a few rather choice words for the referees during last night's game. Hopefully Detroit will get the next one so that they can win the cup at home this year!