or What did I learn today?
1. Don't drink coffee at 10 o'clock at night.
2. I need more than three hours sleep.
3. Dehydration, sleep deprivation and humongous workouts are not a healthy cocktail.
I survived my 6.5 hour workout but it was not pretty. I've never had leg cramps so intense I couldn't bend my leg or thought I was going to throw up. Thankfully Fabulous Coach K drove up and plied me with more Enduralytes and fresh water and I was able to ride the last few miles back to MVHS. Also thankfully, she let me alter the last leg and skip the final hills. So I can still say I've never sagged out of a bike ride, but today was very, very close.
Today's bike ride route was from Mountain View to Saratoga, then up Highway 9 to Skyline (Hwy 35) to Page Mill Rd and back through side streets to our starting point at MVHS. I just spent a very long time, tediously inputing the route into the
running map that computes distance & elevation only to lose it all about 7/10s of the way through. Argh! Cool program but I'll skip it tonight. The overall ride was 40 miles and the biggest climb was six miles up Hwy 9 to the junction with Hwy 35, about 2,500 feet.
Good thing that this happened now and not in the summer. Good lessons learned!
PS: swimming an entire workout and cooling down only to be told by your coaches, "Okay we're doing it all a second time now!" is pretty close to actual mental torture! I will pay closer attention the next time a swim workout seems a little short!
