a.m. - Swim at Brooks
* Did 3 x 10 min sessions today - was feeling kind of tired, so this was a 'relaxing' workout. Nothing very hard - just focused on stroke technique. Used paddles / buoy for last 10min.
Total time = 35 min
pm. - Group ride
* Did County Line ride - ended up being a great ride - while going up the bridge I was able to get in a small break with Curtis, Tom, and Walter. Figured that it would get caught once the big group started working together in Nocatee but the four of us started working together and put in some good solid efforts. At the turn around for spoke 1 - we had about a 30-45 second gap! We kept on pushing hard and taking equal pulls around 26-28 mph. Since it is starting to get darker earlier - we only did spoke 1 & 3 so we kept it strong through the roundabout and just continued to open the gap. Luckily, once we hit the ramp and started to head back to the bridge - we had a bit of a tail wind. This helped us keep our speed and still get in some recovery. I could tell at this point that we were going to try to stay away ALL the way back. Hit the bridge and got up it quick but didn't kill it - saved some for the backside and we were doing 28-30 all the way to the Mickler's / 210 roundabout. At this point I looked back and couldn't see the group at all - either they just gave up or we were that far ahead. Down the Blvd. we still had a little tailwind so it was steady at about 26-28 with good 30-45 sec pulls. Right before the s-curve, Curtis starts picking it up and gets us to about 31mph and at this point I just can't hold his wheel - after about 10 secs I start to get gapped and then next thing I know i'm rolling 22 mph - luckily Walter was feeling it too - so we recovered from that and just kept it rolling back the Lodge. We maintained our comfortable 26-28mph while Tom and Curtis pulled away at 30..... good thing was that we still never got caught by the main group..... by the end of the ride we waited to see how far back they were and it was close to 2min that we put on them ...... for only a 30mile ride!
Total time = 1hr 30min
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