Lake Placid Weekend

Haven’t blogged for a while but thought I would try and do some this weekend while I’m away for my annual weekend in Lake Placid to help, cheer and watch the Ironman USA event. It’s always a fun event with over 2000 people starting every year. Imagine that many people starting the swim at the same time. Mayhem to say the least.

We have small group of us that go down each year. We get together throughout the weekend but have plenty of time to explore and train and shop.

Today is a recovery day. I ran short recovery run with Jo-Anne (a.k.a. the wife, commander-in-chief home fleet) this morning. Nothing else planned for the day for training.

I’m also bringing my bike down with me again this year. It will be a lot less distance this year as I’m only there for 3 days hence I won’t probably have time to do a full loop. Part of me is okay with that. ;-) Okay maybe a big part.

I should have time for at least one swim in Mirror Lake. It’s fun to swim while all the buoys are in place for the race. The first couple of buoys are more than enough for me in general as I don’t swim that far.

Tomorrow I have a two hour run scheduled. That will be the big training event for the weekend. I’ll probably do two one hour out and backs so that I can refill my bottle half way. That’s always the challenge when you travel to find places to get water. Within the town of Lake Placid there a few spots but you very quickly get out of town on a long run.

Time to hit the road. Had my first coffee at Bridgehead and will get one for the road as well.