July 11th & July 12th Training

July 12th - Sunday

Killer workout today. My teammate picked me up in the morning at 7:30 AM to go Marin College. I don't usually wake up that early ever! Last night was a bachelorette party too, but try to be tame, so I could be functional for this big workout. I'm glad I went home early now. Started the morning with 5 minute warm up (probably about 4x50's), then went into drills. We did more drills then usual. Then, we did a ton of laps of just going at L3 or L4 to get our hard rate really pounding. In the end, we did a total of a mile swim. I was starving after the swim, so had a lara bar, then onto a hour run! This was the longest run we've done so far. I felt super dehydrated 1/2 through the run. I'm going to have to buy a water belt for future runs. It may be ugly, but style will have to be forfeited. After the first 30 minutes, I seriously couldn't think about anything except about how thirsty I was. I started to dream about fire hydrants! I thought about going to some fast food place I saw in the distance to get water, but didn't want to lose team. Finally, I snuck off for a moment and drank out of a hose at someones house in Marin! That's how desperate I was! I'm starting to realize my bike and swim are a lot stronger then my run.

July 11th, Saturday

Started out the morning with an 18 mile bike ride in Blackpasture in Marin. The ride was awesome. It was so beautiful in the morning. The hills were definitely doable and we did a great loop. The last hill kicked my butt a bit, but I felt pretty strong on the bike. After the bike ride, we had a picnic lunch and 5 honorees (Leukemia patients / survivors) chatted about their story. It's was very inspirational and sad. I immediately started crying. It's amazing what they have gone through, or what they are still going through. A few of the honorees were very lucky to have a match in their family for bone marrow and some thanks to Team in Training are able to use a drug that was funded by Team in Training. Unfortunately, their are so many strains of the disease, that the drug doesn't work for everyone and sometimes your body doesn't take it. 20 years ago though, if you had Leukemia you died and today thanks to all this research and funding the survival rate is a lot better.