This morning we had our first official brick workout of the season out at Texas Motor Speedway. As our training is ramping up in the new year, we will be doing more and more workouts that simulate a triathlon. A brick workout is when you ride and then run immediately following. The reason it is called a brick is because after transitioning from the bike to the run your legs literally feel like bricks. It's an odd feeling; you know you're body is going forward because you pass things on the road but it does not feel like your legs are moving because they are so heavy. It is almost as if they are filled with sandbags or cement.
Today we rode 15 miles and ran three miles. And while it felt like my legs were hardly moving at all on the run, my watch was good indicator that I still kept a 9:30 pace. As we continue our training, the bricks will get longer and longer in preparation for the 56 mi ride/13 mi run we'll be doing in Galveston come April.
This weekends workouts have proven to be intense. Gearing up for the CowTown half marathon, I ran 9 miles Saturday morning and followed it with our team's swim workout. In the pool we were timed for a 300m race swim and I was pretty happy with my results, finishing under 5 minutes at 4:49 two times in a row. That swim time is an improvement over my October tri, where I did the 300 in about 5:30. I guess I'm doing something right and my work is paying off! Seeing such time improvements motivates me to continue the hard work and keeping aiming high.
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