West coast pictures are up. Oh, and training.

Aaron finally got all of our West Coast vacation pictures up on Flickr. We had such a fantastic time and got in some really amazing riding.  If you haven’t heard the story yet, check out the caption on the picture where I’m reading a ticket and there’s a cop car in the background.  Stupid-ass Reno 911 cop. Wait, not even a cop!  A Highway Patrol Officer!  Even better.

There are also pictures like this:

Coppola Vineyards, 5/23/09

We were still pretty sober at that point, seeing as this was the second vineyard we rode to.  But beyond this, things just got silly.  I fell asleep at 8:45 that night, a plate of Thai food still in my lap.  Ah… such is the life.

In other training news, last week was a pretty solid week.  I got both weight lifting days in, and I even managed to keep myself from doing the leg work.  It’s really hard to walk away from something that is WRITTEN DOWN and not do it.  But with these races coming up next weekend I was trying to look ahead and realize the benefit of not doing any heavy leg lifting for two weeks.  Ugh.  I like the instant (almost) gratification of being sore the next from lifting and feeling like you’re doing something measurable way more than cutting back on something and *praying* that it makes you better a couple weeks down the road.

I got in a full swim practice, finally, as well as a quick run on Friday.  I’m not nearly up to where I should be distance-wise in my running plan.  But I also took a spin class on Saturday morning which made me feel much less slow than I have been feeling.  I’m really not looking forward to these races next week.  Like I told Aaron, bike races make me nervous for weeks in advance.  Stomach in the throat, gut-wrenching type of nervousness.  Triathlons only make me nervous about 20 minutes in advance.  Far less stressful!

We’re getting ready to start tapering down the training for next weekends races.  Next week is only one hard bike workout and a couple of super easy days.  Races start Friday.

This week is supposed to look something like this.

Schedule for the week:

Mon: Weights, 1:30

Tues:  Recovery ride, 2 hours

Wed: Weights, 1:30 and run intervals

Thurs:  Swim 1:00

Fri: Rest

Sat: Long ride, wind sprints

Sun: Recovery ride