Recovery Week going strong through the weekend:

Saturday we did an easy 3 hours on the bike. That meant we only had to do one (yes, only one) loop through The Canyon. No one particularly felt motivated on this ride, but all of us were thrilled to only have to be on the bike for 3 hours.
(Yes, that last statement is the kind of statement an Ironman athlete "in the thick of it" would say!)

After the short three hour ride, we had a 20 minute run. After gearing up, all three of us walked... Yes, that's right... we walked our run.

It was kind of harmless at first. All three of us walking down Goldilock's residential street. Looking like we were facing the last fight in some showdown to save the city. At some point you'd think someone would push off and motivate the group to run... but no one stepped up. And no one was going to complain either. The fact is, the walk just felt too good.

Midway through 2010 Shannon's conscious got the best of 2009 Shannon. And I spoke up, "You know, I'm not going to complain but should we be running now? I'm perfectly happy walking, but I felt I should ask..." To everyone's surprise, Adult Supervision said this was good enough for her. We all knew Goldilocks wouldn't complain. Even with the debut of his new running visor. Let's just refer to it as a walking visor instead.

Perhaps, it made us feel better. Perhaps we wanted to "log" 2 miles. Or perhaps we just didn't know what else to do with our extra time having only did 3 hours on the bike... but we didn't walk for 20 minutes. We... geared up and looking the part of runners (i.e. with water and electrolytes, water belts and running/walking visors)... we walked the 2 miles it would have taken us to run for 20 minutes.

Sunday, Adult Supervision finished up her longest LONG run with 3 hours in Huntington. I hear through the grapevine she survived.

Goldilocks and I were scheduled to run 8 miles. However I text'd him at 7am to postpone so I could sleep in (I still refuse to admit I was a little hung over from the night before). Run time moved to 4pm... Ok fine! We didn't end up running. Instead we went to the 3pm showing of Inception.

So, net, net: This week was a wash. Next week we have our last LONG, LONG, LONG ride (7 hours). And Inception was a good movie. Kinda long and confusing at some parts, but overall a good thriller!