Morning swim. Threat or menace?

Actually it went pretty well. Felt the same as any other. It was crowded though as they had 3 lanes blocked off for water aerobics.

Succeeded in getting in an effort that, it is hoped, will allow me to sleep on the 10 hr flight to London later today. Woo hoo. Not sure if I'll be posting from the UK and surrounding area, but will definitely be fitting some workouts into the trip.

Rain. Bah.

At about 4pm it was pretty obvious the Sunday night ride would be rained out. The pool closes at 4:30 on Sunday so that was out.

Will have to have a makeup workout tomorrow. The pool will probably be it. After taking a couple of weeks off while they closed it for maintenance, it was a bit rough getting back into it. It may be necessary to get one of those swim cadence beeper things, as I cannot resist the temptation to speed up whenever my stroke is a bit off, and that just makes it go farther off, and makes me tired faster.

WOJ shop ride. Thankfully a short one tonight.

Had a good grudge match climb to where Skyline meets Grizzly Peak. Usually around here on the climb to a given summit you are not in a position where you have enough gearing to be spinning a high cadence. This climb was flat enough though and it was high cadence for the win. Interesting that this let me tap into more heart rate. Garmin recorded 188, which is way above anything believable that has been tracked on the bike before.

Caffeine plus milk plus some sugar (cappuccino) about 30 minutes before the ride was a good fueling strategy.