Da Big 3-4

June 25, my favorite day. It's always beautiful and sunny and hot - and right now I'm on my front porch, ON LINE because my honey got me an amazing AirPort Extreme Base Station for my birthday so now we're WIRELESS baby!!! OK, still dial-up wireless, but wireless no less. We picked about 40 lbs. of strawberries yesterday and will spend awhile cleaning and freezing them, staking tomatoes, watering everyone and then heading out to the pond for some swimming and cooling off. And eating cake.

Tempo run of the Fairlee course around the lake yesterday - stats went like this... WB said I had to come in under 55 minutes and predicted 52...

Mile 1 - 9:56 (first sub 10 min mile in three years!!!) avg HR 153
Mile 2 - 10:20 avg HR 156
Mile 3 - ouch - 10:54 avg HR 156
Mile 4 - 10:41 avg HR 160
Mile 5 - 9:12 avg HR 161, max 169...obviously this mile is short but I stopped the watch exactly where the chute ends with the finishing mat. My anaerobic threshold seems to be right around 162 at this point...the last two miles didn't feel all that great.
Total time, not including warmup: 51:04

Lance Armstrong-Like assault on Thetford Hill, TWICE, today...wish me luck!!!

And I hope everyone who's racing has a FANTASTIC DAY!!!