I Knew I Had A Lot of Heart, but.....

The recovering is going ehhh at best. I can not get my RHR below 60. Which is fine for some people, but my usual is in the low 50's. Some people have asked, how am I getting my RHR. I wear my Polar F4 to bed and before I even move an inch in bed I look at the reading and write it down. I also look at my AVG HR during sleep which usually about the same as that 1st reading. I hit a max HR of 100 in my sleep last night. I wonder what I was dreaming about?!

I have been on REST since Monday. Meaning no training, NONE. I took it a step further on Monday by lounging around with the legs up. Tuesday I did a few regular errands. I still took time to sit and chill by reading blogs, and contacting sponsors for the weight loss challenge, but more on that later. Wednesday, Coach K gave me clearance for an EASY 15-30 minute ride, and yes she said EASY in caps just like that. LOL! That is what I did. I kept an AVG HR of 128 with and AVG speed (if you can call that speed) of 14.6mph. It felt good and EASY. I must say(makes me think of Ed Grimley) I am loving my new pedal system, Speedplay. That floating factor makes such a difference compared to the SPD's. I have not been on a long ride with them, but can tell it will alleviate a lot of the pressure issues on the ball of my foot. If I make it to race day Sunday I will give them a true review.

So, here I am on Thursday. Coach K said rest today. With the RHR still elevated it would be in my best interest to rest. I will give you her quote, "if you do train, you might not be even able to race on race day". I really want to race, so rest assured no argument from me. I know this may not turn out to be my so called "A" race, and I am OK with it. I just really would like to participate alongside, (well not really alongside, more like same course and hopefully same day, HAHAHA!) with such amazing athletes like, Greg Bennett, Becky Lavelle, and Andy Potts all that is missing is Kim Hager :-)

If anything it will be a great weekend! Friday evening the Strive Team is doing a pre race pasta dinner party since the majority of the group is going off to race Longhorn 70.3 .Good luck Team Strive, especially my tri sis!!

Then my bestest friend, Rita and her husband are joining Shane, and I for the road trip out to Dallas for the Toyota US Open Triathlon.

I am thinking positive, staying relaxed about the whole thing and above all else enjoying the ride of being a triathlete!! (well becoming a triathlete. You know I don't see myself as a true triathlete, yet...)