Primrose

awful sleep. I surprise myself but this is the easy one. Bike then run may be a very different story.

ever. I took most of an hour to drive home, get my bike ready, and get out there. Poor planning from a tired wolf.

Then I rode ten miles, turning in the fastest average speed I've ever done at over eighteen miles per hour. And I feel fine. All on three nights running of

my triathlon suit. But I could swim and bike in it very well. I found that even something so thin was remarkably buoyant and helped me. I did a 300 yard warmup then a 400 yard swim, like the race. Twice. The last one was 9:04. Then it was time for the slowest transition

They call it a Brick. I do not know why. Perhaps because doing two of the triathlon disciplines in quick succession is a building block to the full thing. Or perhaps because one feels like you've been hit by a brick. Maybe both.

A lot of new stuff today. I feel poured into

I have no idea what characteristics trigger this but it's definitely a real thing.

I do not have this. My late wife most certainly did and the stories she could relate were stunning.

I once heard that faking a phone call is a good way to get out of conversations. May be an idea.

the things that matter. Because, as I've been forcibly reminded this weekend, life is never certain.

to push for as long as I could and managed 2.5 miles of the planned 3. But I did eventually run all twelve.

Yeah, timezone silliness, lots on my mind. But it's mostly just I need to sleep more. It's time to start shedding things in my life I don't need anymore and focus on

Wolf fursuiter with black fur and red hair. Standing in a living room on a tile floor with paws raised to chest level.

I forgot the picture today so you get one of the ones I took when I first got my suit in May 2025, in honor of Snap. It was a slog again, only a twelve mile slog. Holding the target heart rate for the fast portion in the middle was impossible for most of it. So I just tried

today.

Yeah, just a minute going hard isn't long but I did that six times at a pace well under 8 and a couple times under 7. Seven miles this morning.

Always the least fun thing on a run is to run into someone's race. Thankfully, it was all over and the aid station was being packed up when I went by. I finally got some more rest and although it was rough getting going, I could do a lot of the fast intervals at a 5K pace

Unsure if that's kinky, odd, or both. heh

Can I eat the donut?

Well done on the ride and yeah, tri is really fun. Forgive me for not keeping up but did you finish that half?

No tale of inspiration or success today. Today was a slog. There are days when nothing works, when other factors make it next to impossible, when every step is a struggle.

Today was one of those days. A very sore four. Did it anyway. Have a great weekend.

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but I could hold a mid 9 and then a flat 9 for the fast finish. Nice.

A one hour 10K is actually pretty impressive. That such feels not only de regueur but like a warmup is really something.

But I was seriously exhausted yesterday and it takes my old wolf self longer than one day to bounce back now.

However, not done yet. It took serious work

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still in the water helped. I just don't know anything, really.

But, I did a 18.6 second 25 yard length today.

I cut my swim off early today and started a bit early as well because I have to deal with the taxes today. Erf.

1,650 yards today. I was shown a video of myself taken last time and I don't really know but I feel it's pretty awful. Just breathing with one lens of my goggles

I'll never buy an inkjet again. Get a cheap-ass black and white laser. Yeah, the toner is even more pricy than ink but one cartridge lasts forever with infrequent use and it never clogs.

Up to nine miles on the bike today. However, this ride was only two minutes longer than last week's at eight miles.

Am I great, no. Still really wobbly trying to reach my bottle while going. But progress.

For three weeks now, I've done a very long weekend run on Sunday--always over 15 miles--and a four mile shakeout Monday morning that was just torturous.

I'm calling these the Sore Four now. Ow. Erf.

on the bike. 1.2 miles in the pool. February was definitely time to get serious. 164 miles all up.

some of the shorter ones as I build back to being able to run a full marathon again, there were some pauses. Maybe a bathroom break at one of the parks spaced every 2.5 miles or so. But not this time. Sixteen miles; never walked a step.

33 miles running for the week. Eight

Nice hair, erf. Today's was, in one sense, easy. Just the usual heart rate limited run where I was kept under the cardio threshold the whole way, with the resultant pace steadily decreasing as I went along.

But I didn't want to stop. In all my previous long runs and even

Heckie, I wish sometimes.

just gets harder. All up, it was over eleven miles.

that second hard interval. Then it ran out again on a mid 9 to flat 10 three mile long run. And even the half mile cooldown at an easy jog was a struggle to finish. Today was also all pace based, rather than heart rate. So there's no such thing as slowing as I tire. It

more and more insistent that I was lying as it went.

Lifting has the concept of a drop set. You work to exhaustion, rest, then do it again with a lower weight, and so on progressively getting lighter but still hard as hell. That was today. I burned the tank dry completing