On July 11th I completed my first century of the year, the Harpeth River Ride. It was an organized ride through Franklin TN and surrounding areas in Williamson County. Lance Armstrong was even there, but I only saw him on stage shortly before the ride began. He did ride the 100 mile route but with his personal SAG team. It was very very hot. I felt great except for the last 5 miles when the heat got to me. However this was a great confidence boost. Apparently I was holding my head incorrectly as my neck started to really hurt after 60 miles or so. I was looking up too much. That is something to work on.
I also recently attended traffic court for my ticket for not stopping at a stop sign on my bike. I am still really pissed about this whole thing. Why this overweight deputy felt the need to issue me and other cyclist citations is beyond me. I noticed that during the traffic court all of the sheriff’s deputies seem to have weight issues. I don’t get it. Why are these law enforcement officials overweight and obviously out-of-shape? As a resident of this county I find this embarrassing. Anyways, the judge enforced the ticket. Now I will be heading to traffic safety school for 4 hours because some stupid deputy decided to harass cyclist….
My training is going well. I am competing in a sprint triathlon this weekend and a half-iron in about 2 ½ weeks. These will be a great test for CFE and my programming.
As far as my switch up to include some LSD, I have been fighting over training symptoms at time. I think I will pull back a little on this but lean towards longer interval and tempo work on the bike and run. I believe I can get by with 13.1 being my longest run, but 30 miles on the bike isn’t long enough. I will need to sprinkle in some longer distance.
