Team Garmin: Daren’s Update
Less than three weeks until RTR 2006 … where did the time go? I’m several hundred miles behind where I was this time last year but last week was my best training week of 2006. The week started on a high note with the BikeSource Triathlon at Heritage Park in Olathe, KS. I turned in a personal best overall time and sub-eight-minute miles for the first time in the run leg of a triathlon. According to my Forerunner 301, my overall time was 1:17:15 — an improvement of nearly one minute over last year. Doesn’t sound like much, but at my age (I turned 42 on May 15) it’s great to be able to say that I’m not getting older, I’m getting faster! I’ve uploaded my triathlon tracklog to MotionBased, and you can see a thumbnail of it below.
Monday and Tuesday were travel days, but I rode to and from work Thursday and Friday for a total of 88 miles in 48 hours. I topped it off with a 12 mile ride (followed by a 3-mile run) Saturday morning for a total of 100 miles in three days. Not bad, but RTR is an average of 70 miles per day for six straight days. Guess I need to “kick it up a notch” this week!
Memorial Day weekend featured a trip to North Loup, Nebraska, for my wife’s mother’s family reunion. Decided at the last minute not to take my bike but packed my running shoes and my Forerunner. Went for a five mile run Sunday morning along a scenic path (seriously) from the airport motel in Ord, Nebraska to Bussell Park, where I discovered the Ord High School football field and track — a world-class facility reflecting Nebraska’s obsession with sports — especially football! Did some fartleks on the track and headed back to the hotel… my tracks of that event are shown below.
That day, we took a trip to the North Loup Cemetery to visit the gravesites of my wife’s great, great great, and even great great great grandparents — including veterans of the Civil and Spanish American Wars! Visiting a small town in the Midwest on Memorial Day weekend is something everyone should experience in their lifetime. God Bless America.
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