300

300

Erik (14) and Anders (12) wanted to go and see “300”, rated PG-13. Suddenly all their friends wanted to go. Apparently, I’m the neighborhood’s number one irresponsible parent and an easy mark for this kind of dirty work. When the smoke had settled, I had 8 teenage boys in tow. About 45 mins into the movie, I realized that I just took 8 teenage boys to see 2 hours of gay porn. The plot, as near as I am able to surmise, was that the king of Sparta gets 300 of his most buff buddies together, they don their black leather speedos, red capes (the whole ensemble is held together by an very attractive silver brooch), get all oiled up, and they go camping. Anyways, I might need you to help me post bail.

In March, I started throwing in some threshold work on the bike by doing away with the 25-40mins at a heart rate of 150-160 and replacing it with 25 minutes at a heart rate of 162-168, spin easy for 5 minutes and follow this with another 10 minutes at 162-168. I also got out on the road with my bike a few times, more specifically when it got above 0C. March 15 was my last indoor track workout. From March 15 forward I moved all my hard quality runs outside, excepting the Friday morning Bike-run which I’m keeping inside until the end of April. I’m pretty maniacal about getting off of the indoor track as soon as feasible. I tend to view the indoor track as an injury magnet. There were 2 memorable workouts where common sense, if I had any, would have dictated moving back inside. One was 14x300m hills during a blizzard and the other one was 20x100m STEEP hills into a 60-70km/hr headwind. These are both fine examples of pig-headed stubbornness trumping intelligence.

Mar 5- Mar 11

Run 40 miles

Bike 100 miles

Swim 3.5k

Mar 12- Mar 18

Run 54 miles

Bike 150 miles

Swim 0k

Mar 19- Mar 25

Run 57 miles

Bike 199 miles

Swim 0k

Mar 26- April 1

Run 68 miles

Bike 184 miles

Swim 2.5k