Epic Week Day 8: Sleep is a grand thing!

Oh boy was I grumpy and tired yesterday! I wouldn't have wanted to be around me. I just couldn't seem to shake my mood or my fatigue yesterday.

Zan and Robert came by and we drove out to swim at hagg lake and then do a bike and a run. Well the swim went fine. It actually felt really good to be in open water with no walls where I could just swim and not have to turn. It was interesting being in a wetsuit again. Now that my body position is better I totally felt like I was almost on top of the water. I didn't have to kick hardly at all and I felt like I was just cruising along. It was great. It took me awhile to put my "new" stroke into place but once I had it I felt like I could sustain it. Especially since I didn't feel like I needed to kick. My left hand was dropping some so I really concentrated on extending it out there and it finally came around. i did notice that my recover felt much different and even took a good deal more strength. next time i swim open water I think I'll check my wetsuit out a little better and try to get a little more mobility in the arms. I think I may not have had it fitted well. I don't remember it feeling like that in the past.

After the swim I got on my bike and it was all I could do to sit on my bike. I couldn't find a comfortable position to save my life. I was also on a new route where I didn't really know where I was going and I ended up going up a really steep hill that after Silver Falls the day before I was not ready for. It took everything I had to get up it. Then I took a wrong turn.... ARGH!!! Needless to say it didn't help my grumpiness.

So when i got back i didn't run. I was completely exhausted. I ended up going to bed around 7:30 and asleep by 8. I ended up sleeping about 12 hours, maybe more.... I definitely needed it.

Today I rode out to Crown Point. It was good to be back on a familiar route. I like my new position on my bike. It was certainly much more comfortable. And I think I like my new shoes except i don't know how you run in those. I feel like I slide all over the place. I'm tempted to just carry them to the bike mount and put them on there. I can't believe anyone could actually run on those. maybe on grass it would be fine.

I definitely need a cleat fitting though because my feet were cramping up. I think they need to be slid back a ways toward the ball o fmy foot.

The ride was good. I still have fatigue in my legs but not too bad. I felt strong most of the way and my run afterwards was good. I had a hard time bringing my heart rate down to even 153. It was staying in the upper 150's even when i felt like I was running really slow and easy. I only ran for 20 minutes so maybe I should try to run until I can get it down next time.

Tomorrow i just swim and bike to work. I'll only work on form tomorrow at swimming so that I can have a good ride on Wednesday.