The good thing is my Canada Media tour was canceled, so I was able to get some training in during the week with some pals, including the last brick session with Adrian and the group, the bad this is my trip to NYC for TTPM Holiday event was still on.
As I flew into NYC, I knew it was going to be a tough weekend and week of training, especially since my knee has not been that great and felt like it was only getting worse and the majority of my training was going to be in the hotel gym. That being said, I was coming off my high of my 90miler and I had also agreed to run the Bronx 10-Miler Race for Marc since he and Christy were doing the Ragnar Relay.
So, to make life easier, I stayed at their apartment for the weekend. It is soooo nice. Their new place is a sweet 2bed on the UES of Manhattan. Gorgeous. Marc gave me a semi-cool bike route. But when I woke up on Saturday, I wasn't feeling too hot, so I was just going to throw Christy's bike on the trainer, but they didn't have the right skewer, so by the time I got all sorted out it was already 9:00. I wanted to be halfway over by then.. UGH.. but I grabbed the bike and headed to the route. It was a very pretty bike path, but it is did end and I had to make my way through a town to get back on the path. I got a little lost but found it. I didn't last too long, only a total of about 45 miles or so. I was so naseous and had a headache. Totally sucked. So when I finally made it home to Marc's I fell into the bed and I was out for a few hours. Luckily for me, when I am sick or getting sick, my body shuts down and needs sleep and once i get it, I am usually back to normal. Which is great, because today i was able to pop next door to my friend Rosalind's for her son's first birthday, before heading back to bed to get some solid rest for the Bronx 10-Miler Run on Sunday.
On Sunday, I woke up and was ready... still having a slight headache and of course nervous for my knees, but I was pretty ready for the race and thankfully, Christy's friend Victor was meeting me at the subway to get me to the race on time. :-)
Adrian had in my training notes that i had to do 15 miles that day, so depending on how my knees felt, I should either tack on 5 more or do the elliptical to do the equivalent. Now, to be honest, my knees were hurting, but I also wasn't sure if it was tired knee pain or serious knee pain or mental knee pain... and after all, I will have to 26.2 in the race, so why not do the 15... well.. lets just say... that sucked. I did the 15 and kept my intervals, but I was basically out of commission for the next few days. It killed to walk up or down stairs and the elliptical and bike were out of the question, so that put a damper in the training in NYC... but come Tuesday night, I was back and able to get in the swing of it... which was good, because I was flying back home on Thursday to head to Las Vegas for Silverman 70.3 on Friday.
Oh.. and I must mention... Zoomer Dino, Paw Patrol Lookout HQ and Wackytivities Kinetic Sand won TTPM Most Wanted!! WAHOOOOOOOOOO!!! :-)
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