Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Triple brick?

I've heard real triathletes talk about a "triple brick" and I think I may have done one of those yesterday. Based on what they said, it didn't seem that official "triple bricks" have a bunch of teaching children and meetings and driving in the middle, but close enough. 


Yesterday, I swam before work, and then biked and ran after work. See, I even got all the sports in the right order. I thought it was the first time that I'd ever done all three during training but then I remembered I've done two swim/bike/run events that the triathlon club has hosted. Still, those felt more like races, they even had transition areas set up and everything. So, this was the first time I just did one on my own/with my training buddy.


Lily and I did a loop of the BWI trail (plus a little extra to make it a full 15 miles) last night, followed by a 30 minute run. I think I need to man up and run a little faster on these bricks, even though I'm tired because it's past my bedtime. It's only 3 miles or so.


By the time I got home it was around 9pm, and I needed to leave by 5:10 am to get to Lily's to run the following day. As I whined about yesterday, that really isn't enough sleep for me, but I only have 2.5 days to go until spring break, so I guess I can pull through. Obviously I didn't waste any precious sleep time on showering at night, so that helped.

We did 6 miles this morning, and they were slow. I need to run faster. That seems to be a common theme here. Despite being slow, it was a good run, except I felt so out of breath. Who knows what my problem is?


As usual, I don't have any pictures, so I'll share this one of two of my favorite things ever combined.

Blurry, yet awesome.

12 comments:

  1. That is the best "Hey Girl" I've ever seen.

    Again, I can't believe you don't shower before bed. Jeff would kick me out of bed. He won't even sit next to me if I haven't showered after a run. :)

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  2. Ugh, I literally groaned out loud at the lack of shower thing! I'm so anal about showering after workouts :)

    PS I'd be happy to even run at a 9:30 pace so nice work!

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  3. These people are funny. Last night I was so tired and feeling like crap after spin, and by the time I got home I wasn't sweaty anymore, so I went to bed without showering. BAM, confession revealed.

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  4. The real triple brick is bike-run-bike-run-bike-run.

    LET'S DO ONE. OR FIVE.

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  5. I'm tired just thinking about your workout...then again, I'm really just tired in general right now.

    That is an awesome Hey Girl.

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  6. I'm on team gotta-shower, otherwise I smell like a wildebeast.

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  7. If I only sweat a tad, I won't shower (like after barre class) but if I run I have to shower. I sweat like a man (hot) and feel salty!

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  8. Best Hey Girl I've ever seen. If the sweat dries then I'll go to bed. Not regularly, but it's not the end of the world. I would never, ever get in bed with wet sweat though. Ewww.
    Awesome workouts yesterday!

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  9. I've totally skipped the shower when I'm too tired....but only if I'm dry. Apparently, we're the stinky ones of the bunch - or the truly dedicated as I prefer to view it. :P

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  10. I totally skip the shower after night workouts if I'm going to work out again in the morning. Hubs doesn't even mind, he kinda likes my stink (he's as weird as I am!). Love that hey girl, too funny!

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  11. Now that's a workout! I'm pretty sure we've both gone to bed without showering after sweating at some point during the day.

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  12. I think slow morning miles are justified when you swam, biked, and ran the previous day, with your last run being only 9 hours earlier!!

    Reading about your triple brick day makes me tired.

    I skipped on showering before bed last night, but I only ran 2 really easy miles with Dan before. I'm not sure if I even sweat that much.

    I will admit to having not showered before bed a few times before...I'm not proud of it. But a couple times I have sat around after running, forgot that I sweat a lot earlier, then it's already bed time and too late to shower. I do usually change the sheets the next day if I do that though. I don't know if that makes it any better.

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