20-mile Easy to Moderate Bike Ride

Completed our first bike ride of the season, 20-miles easy ride with rollers from Foothill High School, Pleasanton to Calaveras Road in Sunol and back. It rained prior to the bike ride so the roads were still wet. My bike, clothes and gear got splattered in mud. Loved seeing the fall foliage on this route.

I rode with my friends Helen and Cori. I've known Cori for the past 2 years from the Marathon team and I convinced her to try something new and join the IronTeam. She's new to road biking and did great today. I see her soon riding up front with the Kenyans and leaving me in the dust.

Running with Max

Early this morning, I completed yesterday's run workout and ran a total of 5 miles.

I love running in Clayton when everything is greening up. The only thing I hate about the run is that it's a quarter-mile uphill climb with about 600 foot elevation gain to get back home. The positive thing about it is that this will make me stronger.

Here's a photo of Max, my running buddy. He's 13-years old now.

Back in the Saddle

This evening was the first time I've sat on my bike seat since Vineman on 8/1/09 when I road 112-miles. We had a one hour spin workout on our trainers where we focused on pedaling drills. My area down "there" needs to toughen up again after 3 months off the saddle. Did workup a sweat with the one-legged drills.

Coach Dave leads a fun spin workout. I generally love his music selection...except that one time when he had a Bollywood/Slum Dog Millionaire selection.

On the Road Again!!!

After a hiatus since my Ironman event on 8/1/09, I've decided to train for another Ironman! Which Ironman is still up in the air...trying to decide between Ironman Canada, seeing if I can improve my time at Vineman or possibly Ironman Arizona. I've rejoined the IronTeam for my second year and this time volunteer on the team as staff to help ensure goals come true for the newbies on the team.

Yesterday was the kickoff of our season at U.C. Berkeley, where I graduated 20 years ago!!! Kickoff was held at Wheeler Auditorium. We had a full day there in our first Iron University where the coaches went over the plan for our swim, bike, run and strenth training workouts for the next 10 months of our lives.

Today, I completed my first run (5 miles) and strength training workout. (I made a promise to myself that I'll do a better job in adhering to the strength training working than I did last season.)