Thursday

Cora ready to roll!

Good morning! Thursday! Summer finally arrived, and I wish it would have waited until John did Ironman Louisville. As he said, displaying a good attitude and approach, "I signed up for it, thinking it would be this way." He will do well. I plan to go down as soon as the preacher stops on Sunday. Short sermon? I should catch the end of the bike, T2, and the marathon.

Yesterday morning I got off to a good early start. I like to be finished around 8, and I was doing 8. It went pretty well. I did not work that hard Tuesday night on the 47 miler, which set me up for a better run. It was humid but cool enough. The run was nothing to write home about, but it goes in the log book. I realized, thanks to Strava, my running shoes now have more than 400 miles on them, so it's time for another pair of Mizuno Inspires. I think I have had more than a dozen pairs of them.

I plan to get 30 running miles this week. I will let my bike miles slide down to around 150, I think. It looks like no swimming this week. Jimmy, the gatekeeper to the lake, is going to Chicago for the big Olympic Tri, along with Steve B. He is not tapering for it, but I'm sure he will do well.

Today, for the second week in a row, I am going to take the day off. Jimmy and Roy will be my partners. Jimmy wants 70 miles, including several hard miles. I think I'm ready.