Recovery ride

1 hour recovery ride today... HR average was supposed to be below 120, I can never keep it that low. Average was 143 today. Started to get a bit of a cold... sore throat for the last 2 days and a cough today. Why can't I race healthy with no rain? Shamrock duathlon this weekend; a lovely 28K time trial sandwiched in between 2 delightful 5K runs.

Week before last I did the Ironbear duathlon in Brunswick Maine. Very much fun although my run splits were terrible. My HR profile for the race was:


There was 1 pretty good hill and a couple rollers, just prior to T1 I got the HR up to 199. Can't seem to break the magic 200 nor do I think I want to! 184 average for the race tells me that I was working pretty hard though. Jill will be racing too and a couple other folks from the team will be there, hopefully that will be some motivation to let my heart push me further than my head says I should go.