It’s been a rough week, training-wise, thanks to an annoying cold.
I biked last weekend – the Dirty Thirty with my TNT team. Dirty & Thirty both refer to US30. And dirty was an accurate description! It was a 15.5 mile loop starting in NW PDX. Went a few miles out US30 (dirty & lots of traffic), then across the St John’s bridge (dodging the broken down bus in the right lane and thinking that a functional granny gear would have been a good idea going up up up that hill). Caught a nice view of the Willamette River & downtown PDX from the top of the bridge!
Back to Portland through St John’s neighborhood. Nice area that I hadn’t been to before. My little group of ~6 kinda got lost, or were creative when following directions, as we went through the Rose Quarter & across the Steel Bridge.
And ending up back at Pyramid Brewing Co. No problem, just wet, dirty & tired.
The Monday night group swim went okay. I’m still pretty bad. On occasion, I can make it across the 25m pool in good shape and in good form. But usually I lose form & pause mid-way to regroup. Getting slowly better. I guess I’m a candidate for most improved since I’m starting at the bottom, assuming that I can get it all together.
Managed a 3 mile treadmill run on Thursday afternoon, but I was already suffering from this cold. And it has gotten worse. Skipped the group run yesterday, and nothing today either. But next week will be better!
by Dena, on February 21 2010 @ 5:34 pm
Feel better soon. I remember running over those bridges last summer. Lots of fun.