Mrs. B's Back

Yea! Di's home and everyone's happy again. The dogs are cheerful. Brisco (our cat) is jumping up on us again. All is well in the Bigun household.

So, Bigun, why did you just train hard(ish) for 2 weeks and now are taking a break? Well, I'm glad you asked! I'm 5 weeks out from the Chicago Olympic Tri on August 26th. With a week's worth of traveling to get there, I know that last week will be a really, really light taper. So what do I do, train hard this week again for my normal 3-week training cycle, and then the next cycle be only two? I opted to devote 3 full weeks to working on speed so that I'm back in Oly form for Chicago.

After Chicago, I'll go back into 'base' mode for the last two races of the year for me - Florida Challenge 70.3, and then my "A" race - Tri 101 Woodlands. Like this base ride I did on Sunday, only longer. This was a good ride none-the-less...19mph for 47miles @134hr...

This past week's highlights included:

* Di coming home on Sunday night (yea!)

* the beginning of some gnarly hill work in San Antonio - I'll be back! (Arnold voice)

* Broke 20 miles of running again, first time in 8 weeks. Must continue that trend for 3 hard weeks in August...

* Bloggie peeps crushed IMUSA! Also, my Mom's Husband's Son's wife (Step-sister in-law?) Kathy Shubert finished her first Ironman - IMUSA - and absolutely rocked it.

I"m still undecided on what to call Sweet Baboo - I just can't wrap my head around my nemesis being called Sweet anything. As Geek Girl put it, imagine getting crushed by a guy called Sweet Baboo... that's just not right! "Boo" would be better for me (after all, it's all about me...), but we have nicknamed our friend Luke's girl Boo after the animated girl in Monster's Inc. Maybe a play on words - call him Bitter Baboo...naaa, that's gay. I'll have to work on that a bit.