Saturday Brick

I took some advice this weekend and did not do a 50 mile bike/8 mile run like I was thinking.   Griff told me it would be stupid and I would hurt myself so I took that advice and did a 1 hour bike and a 1 hour run.  This was a great workout and I wish I had been doing more of these.  I headed out early and did a ride in Rock Creek Park with 2 hill repeats and then headed home to jump out on the legs.  I felt really good after the ride, sucked down a vanilla bean GU and headed out with a bottle of Gatorade.  I ran 7.5 in approximately 1 hour and the legs felt like rocket ships!  I was a little stupid, however, because I ran with no socks (thought I would test it out before Timberman) and I killed my feet.  I have several sore spots today and one mammoth blister on the instep of my right foot.  I think I will take a few seconds at the Timberman bike to run transition to put on some socks. 

The strange thing about this is I think I could have run faster considering I had to run on the outside of my foot from about mile 4.  Also, I realized after this brick that I am going to need a coach this next season.  Especially because of Ironman CDA.  There is no way I can figure out an adequate training schedule with the schedule I am trying to keep.  Just last week, I once again lost track of what I should be doing because work went ballistic (Massive Reorganization) and I spent several evenings in meetings preparing to transition 4 new employees to my division.  I missed a couple of workouts, but chalked it up to fate (I think I am going to take advantage of a longer taper).