hey baby, your legs must be tired

back in action! thursday was a normal bike/run, i had planned to do 1:30 bike and then a :45 run at least but i bumped into an idiot on the road who had gotten a flat tire and had only brought with him those plastic things to take your tire off (my usage of terminology is amazing, right, mel?). he asked me for a pump but it didn't fit his replaced inner tube, so he asked me for a patch to repair a hole in his inner tube. i was sort of annoyed and i wanted to yell at him, "do you think i got up early so i could wait for you to use my stuff?!" but pansy that i am didn't say much but kept looking at my watch. so that cut down my run time and i was hit with a craving for a peanut butter and banana sandwich, making my ride back slightly faster.

friday i decided to bike to the pool, do masters, bike back to my place to drop off my bag and then do a ride, giving my ankles a break from running. since i am so good at time management, i had to bike kind of hard to get to the pool, and then found out that our workout would be mostly kicks. what luck.. Alpha Male was actually nice to me, which was a bit of a relief. afterwards i biked back home and then did intervals of 5 mins race pace (trying to do the big ring at high cadence) + 2 mins break. my legs thought all this leg work was a little unfair but tough luck, ladies.

then saturday was beach day!! since the driver wanted to leave early to avoid traffic, i got up at 5 to run, but apparently i needed a chaperon since it was dark. it was a decent run for me but probably a bit easy for A, since he was gliding along while i was trying to keep up. we ran for about 1:30 and then i had a couple nice naps on the beach.

sunday was sbr day w/ maija and supposedly some other aquaholics. maija and i went swimming in new providence in an outdoor 50m pool and i realized that my back/breast are awful but i can't be motivated to improve on them. i mean, working on free is enough and it's not like if a shark is chasing me i'm going to do backstroke. it was really nice to tan and swim at the same time, though, b/c i haven't done so since london. the next event was to bike and run the buckman course with A and some aquaholics who were going to do the tri, but it turned out that it was only A, maija and me. coach maija gave me some good tips on both the bike and run, and i was quite tired then and going with the mentality of "just finish." i was watching maija zoom ahead of me and thinking, "how does that girl have all that energy? must be the organic gatorade." maija was like a porsche, A like a bmw and then here comes e, plodding along like an 87 camry with duct tape on the side. i was pretty wiped out when we were done but superA biked it home while i chilled out in the car.

so vacation is officially over and i must say it got better and better. can't wait for bike and bbq in coundown, 7 days!