Lake Placid, first full day
First full day of holidays on my own. I’m in Lake Placid (LP) for the Ironman USA weekend. It rained all day after breakfast. The weather network described it as “heavy”. I don’t think they were wrong. I decided to switch my off day tomorrow to today.
Hard to describe this as an off day. I’ve walked at least 10k in LP today. My Inn is about ½ to 1 km from most things of interest. I walked to breakfast; I walked unsuccessfully to find a coffee shop with wireless access other than Starbucks where I am now; I hit a bike store to get a lock for the bike; I hit the Ironman USA overpriced souvenir shop; I hit a book store to get some good reading for the rest of the weekend.
They have a nice diner here in town for breakfast although it is 1.5 k from the hotel. Tomorrow the Inn starts serving breakfast for the rest of the weekend. Lunch was also good but slightly fancier (crab cakes and spinach salad).
The atmosphere here is amazing. People are running, riding and swimming like crazy. Every other car has a bike worth at least 2 grand. Don’t show up here if you have more than 20% body fat (pregnant women excepted).
Tomorrow I’ll run 60 minutes with 10 minutes in zone 3. Yesterday’s zone 2 run was challenging. Partly this was due to travelling all day but mostly due to the constant up and down terrain here. In total it was only 20 minutes in zone 2 but I certainly worked hard to keep the right pace. This was originally supposed to be Tuesday’s run but some reason I total missed that that was the run for Tuesday. No harm.
Tomorrow I’m also hoping to do one loop of the bike course (90k). If the weather clears up this should be okay. I’ll do this at a nice easy steady pace. Nothing crazy.
Since the race is Sunday I’ll do my long run on Saturday otherwise it will be too difficult to get it all in. At least on Saturday I can rest for the remainder of the day if I need it.
Hard to describe this as an off day. I’ve walked at least 10k in LP today. My Inn is about ½ to 1 km from most things of interest. I walked to breakfast; I walked unsuccessfully to find a coffee shop with wireless access other than Starbucks where I am now; I hit a bike store to get a lock for the bike; I hit the Ironman USA overpriced souvenir shop; I hit a book store to get some good reading for the rest of the weekend.
They have a nice diner here in town for breakfast although it is 1.5 k from the hotel. Tomorrow the Inn starts serving breakfast for the rest of the weekend. Lunch was also good but slightly fancier (crab cakes and spinach salad).
The atmosphere here is amazing. People are running, riding and swimming like crazy. Every other car has a bike worth at least 2 grand. Don’t show up here if you have more than 20% body fat (pregnant women excepted).
Tomorrow I’ll run 60 minutes with 10 minutes in zone 3. Yesterday’s zone 2 run was challenging. Partly this was due to travelling all day but mostly due to the constant up and down terrain here. In total it was only 20 minutes in zone 2 but I certainly worked hard to keep the right pace. This was originally supposed to be Tuesday’s run but some reason I total missed that that was the run for Tuesday. No harm.
Tomorrow I’m also hoping to do one loop of the bike course (90k). If the weather clears up this should be okay. I’ll do this at a nice easy steady pace. Nothing crazy.
Since the race is Sunday I’ll do my long run on Saturday otherwise it will be too difficult to get it all in. At least on Saturday I can rest for the remainder of the day if I need it.
posted by --brian @ 6:17 PM
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