Bad Luck, Good Fortune

I mentioned in my last post that I had snapped my rear derailleur cable on my bike and that I had to bring it in to get repaired on Monday evening.  Well, I brought it in and asked them to replace all of my cables, with the thinking that if one goes, there is a good chance that some others might go as well.  It was then that I found out it was going to be friggin' expensive!  After getting over the shock of the price, I realized that I was long overdue for some routine maintenance and I ended up having a tune up added onto the total.

I was standing in the bike shop thinking how it was horrible that I was going to have to spend all this money on cables and a bike tune up.  What bad luck!  Then I started to ponder the ramifications had the cable snapped on a long ride out in Central NJ or worse yet, during my half iron distance race in a few weeks......or even worse, during Ironman Arizona.  So even thought the cost was a bummer, the timing really couldn't have been better.  You could say I was very fortunate...at least that is how I choose to view it.

Tuesday
I was up early and in the pool by 5:15AM, as usual.  I had a really good swim, like really happy, smooth and things going really well swim.  I have said it before that I am not a fish, I am more of a sea turtle; however, during my swim on this day, I had flashes of fish-like behavior.  I recall my 400m splits being:  7:59, 8:07, 8:07, 7:58, 7:49 - really happy with the last one!  Total swim time:  1:13:00

3,600m = 500m wu, 4 x 100 drills, 5 x 400m @45sec, 8 x 50m drills, 300m cd

I wanted to get my run in at lunch, but I had meetings all morning and right through lunch.  So frustrating!  After work I had Daddy-duty, pick the girls up, make sure homework was done, make dinner, etc.  Finally around 9:30PM I was able to get out and go running.  I was supposed to do an hour and 15 minutes, but I cut it short, going 6 miles in 49:15 (8:13/mile).  It was close to 10:30PM and I needed to shower and get to bed.

Today
I slept until almost 7:00AM, so nice to get up so "late".  I opted to push off my standard Wednesday BRICK to later on tonight since I got done so late last night.  In fact, I am probably going to run 4 - 6 miles at lunch today and just do my bike on the trainer tonight when I get home.  Granted it isn't a BRICK, but I am still getting the miles/time in.  I have a long-ish BRICK planned for Saturday (5 hour ride, 45 min run), so I am not overly concerned about not getting in a mini-BRICK today.

That is all for now.  Sayonara!