Week 5: Back in it

Swim - 0 miles

Bike - 84 miles

Run - 21 miles

Total Mileage - 105 miles

Total Training Time - 9 Hours

I came back from Puerto Rico last Monday fresh from vacation and slowly recovering from a 3-day fever.  I was itching to get back into real training and just in the nick of time, I received a challenge on my F-Cancer initiative.  I owe my latest motivation to train to this challenge which was to train 100 miles in the month of March.

It wasn't till Wednesday though that I actually did anything, but I knew that I could easily hit 100 miles if I just followed my plan.  I of course accepted the the challenge, but I wanted to take it up a notch and finish off the challenge in 1 week.

I followed my plan the best I could with some short bike rides and runs during the week.  The weekend was where I really wanted to turn up the volume.  I typically hold my weekends for long rides and runs.  On Saturday, I woke up and took advantage of the beautiful weather.   I ran 12 miles around Manhattan mostly on the West Side Highway route.  On Sunday, I took my long ride and although I was only supposed to do about 2.5 to 3 hours, I managed to stay on the bike for over 4 hours.  The last time I did this route, I was training for my half ironman and its always an epic ride that has me seeing all kinds of things.  I basically start from my house and head straight up north across the NJ/NY border till I get to Harriman State Park.  While in Harriman State Park, I get some hill work in on tired legs.  It was a great ride until it started raining and I ended up descending about 7 miles in rain basically freezing my ass off.  In all, I ended up riding about 65 miles.  During this ride, I see the craziest things like ponies, a ton of deer, hasidic jews on bikes, a chapel in the middle of the wilderness, etc.  The list goes on.  Next time I go on this ride, I'll take pics just to show everyone how ridiculous it is.  Anyway, thats it for now.  Week 6 is off to a great start and I'm hoping to get even more workouts in.  Updates soon.   Thanks for reading.