Not much posting since Boise

In general after Boise I took about two weeks to recuperate before getting back into training for Lake Stevens 70.3. I honestly felt pretty good right after the race. Not sure if that means I should have worked harder? I went to DC for work and took Erik. We spent lots of time walking around looking at Memorials and visiting with Jaimee and William. I got a couple of runs in on the hotel treadmill and worked with the weights and core one day. The following week I started to get back into doing some bike intervals and spent the weekend in CdA getting inspired by all the the Bozeman Tritons racing and doing so well and Linsey Corbin winning. I started a build week the following week.

Build week 1- can't remember exactly what the week consisted of, but it was 4th of July weekend and we went to Wieboux to visit Gabe. He isn't very motivated so that was a little frusturating. On Saturday we did the 30 mile loop on bikes through Theodore Roosevelt Park ( I tried to go up and down some extra hills) and on Sunday I did a two hour run outside of town.

Build week 2 and 3- Can't remember exactly what I did. I had a lot of thought into it though. I did track workouts followed by Masters swims on Tuesdays. One weekend I raced the whole Tour de Bozeman and one weekend I did a double brick (3 hrs total with about 50 minute bike intervals and 20 minute run intervals with a 10 min. warmup) . The double brick wiped me out. The next day all I could do was a swim and then a nap.

Build week 4 rest week- At the end of this week I raced xterra. I tried to get in 2-3 of each swim, bike, run. I just kept them shorter.

Peak Week 1- Hard effort every 72-96 hours - Raced on Tuesday with Erik in the TTT. I was tired for the rest of the week. Did a couple of easy runs. On Friday got out on the bike for 3:30 and went up Jackson Cr. to do lots of climbing. Saturday I got in a 40 min. easy run and went up to watch the Mules finish the Butte 50 and 100. Sunday I did a 1:30 tempo run up S. Cottonwood and back.
Peak Week 2- (am really trying to focus on resting the next two weeks, don't think I rested enough for Boise)
Monday- short easy swim in pond and transition practice to the bike. Then did the WMSR Prologue time trial. 5 miles. Tried to keep it above 22mph. This is a potential goal pace of mine, but it was pretty hard. My legs felt like they were going to fall off. I think that run yesterday was harder than I thought.
Tuesday- easy run followed by easy bike. I rode the bike with the trailer to the grocery store. There was a monsterous headwind.
Wed. - 30 minute tempo swim in pond
Thursday- Ride with a few steep hills and then a 10 minute tempo run
Friday-off-rode around town. Ordered the Cannondale Slice!!!
Sat. Ran the Sweet Pea 5k. Haven't tun a 5k in a long time. My time was 21:54. I will take that. Had a little confidence burst when I decided to pass this girl at the end and thought she was going to blow up with her breathing and I felt totally great. She was this girl that bought a bunch of stuff at the last PQ party and is a Team Delphine girl. Funny.