A Few Updates

May #s:

Swim: 25,150 yds or 14.3 miles
Bike: 480.5 miles or 27:30
Run: 92.8 miles or 13:05

Cumulative
Swim: 134,325 yds or 76.3 miles
Bike: 1878 miles or 105 hrs 50 minutes
Run: 390.9 miles or 58 hrs 30 minutes

Weight: dropped 4.8 lbs in May, 21.8 total
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June 11-12 MS 150

Rode my bike 150 miles from Proctor (near Duluth) to White Bear Lake over 2 days for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. The first day, Tim and I used it as a training day and rode hard-ish. It was a fairly flat ride so we pushed hard until the lunch break stop around mile 45. Stopped and had a sub sandwich about 10:00 for "lunch" and then pressed on for the final 30ish miles. Caught up to another pair of riders and we "pelotoned" with them for 10ish or so miles, each taking a turn and then falling to the back. It was a fun way to ride and kept the speed up as a group vs trying to individually. We were clipping along around 23-24 mph in our 4-some until we dropped them and finished up on together. Tim and I averaged 20.7 mph over that first day and came in as the 3rd and 4th bikers overall. Not as impressive as it may sound, but we walked around with puffed chests. Maybe, if you're lucky, I'll expound on that in a further post.
Sunday found it to be a much more casual ride with the full team of 7. We stopped for lunch about mile 39, then again around 65 and finally at the finish. It was a great weekend for a ride - made a few more friends, solidified others and got some good mileage in on the saddle. Just have to make sure I don't get a false sense of security because it was sooo flat, Madison will be nothing like it!

Just wanted to get that down on "paper". Gotta get up early for swimming, but will hopefully write more tomorrow night about my first tri of the season (PRed the Olympic distance, there's your teaser!).