Weekly Training Log: Week of May 25th, 2015 - Week #19: BolderBoulder, Beth's birthday, and a sprint tri

In Life: Summer vacation is here and life is better because of it.  Memorial day was Monday, and my sister and family were in town for it.  I got up and did the race, then went back to the start line to do the race again with all of them.  My son did the whole thing - the whole 10k by himself, and I could not have been more proud.  Walking/jogging a 10k at 4.5 years old is just awesome!

We did our annual post BB10k BBQ and had a great time with food, beer, and friends to celebrate my favorite day of the year.  Beth's birthday was then on Friday... We did dinner on Thursday evening instead to celebrate.

Finally, I did a sprint tri on Sunday and we had a nice little pool day after that with Aiden and one of Beth's friends.  It was an awesome start to the summer break.

In Training:  The week kicked off with a hard 10k race.

The Bolder Boulder was on Monday (memorial day) and I was going to see what I could do.  My run training has been MUCH more sporadic and has varied more in speed and intensity than ever before, so I wasn't hoping for much.
I did have a Bolder Boulder course PR in 35:31.  I ran a good race and was very happy with my result.  Oddly, I was very sore for the two days after the race.  I don't know if it was the intensity or the course that made me sore, but its really weird to have a 10k make me as sore as doing a Half Iron distance triathlon.

I also started to train with the Apex group this past week and had some of the longest swims that I have done in a long time.  It will be awesome to work with a coach and I hope to see some good improvement this season because of it.

Weekly Totals
Swim: 10,150 yds
Bike: 575 TSS - 160 miles (trainer and outdoors)
Run: 34.5 miles

All of us at the start of the Bolder Boulder

Action picture from the citizens race that started at 6:55

Splits from the BB - It's not an easy 10k course.  Fair amount of ups and downs, lots of turns, and at altitude.  I would estimate to be a minute to minute and half faster on easier sea level course.

We had signs on the kids backs to ask for encouragement - Their names were there and people yelled for them.  I think this helped get them through it.

Aiden in his first complete Bolder Boulder.  Im going to have to frame this one.

My Sister and Niece, Meadow.  She took a nice nap while her mother carried her for the 6.2 miles

Happy birthday to my beautiful wife

Action from the Colorado Sprint Triathlon on Sunday

After sprint tri - Sunday fun day