New Program - Saturday, Sunday
Not much to explain for the weekend workouts. A long swim or technical swim and a long bike. Yoga is also incorporated where it can fit into the weekend schedule.
I picked up a Homedics massager over the weekend. It hurt me sooo good. My calves were stressed and sore for the last week and the old massager wasn't doing the job to loosen the tendons. This new massager works great. It really pounds the crap out my legs.
I was able to get downtown for the ATT Crits, running all day and tied to the Keep Austin Weird Festival. The 35+ crit was motorin' around the four square blocks or .52-mile course in about 1:14 for an average lap or going 25.36 mph. They did this for an hour. The pros later in the evening had an average lap time of 58 seconds or 32.5 mph.
The location of the crit on Second Street with the new cafes and lofts felt like another place, not Austin.
It seems though if I'm going to get into this type of riding, I'll need to build another bike. :)
Labels: ATT, crit, Homedics
Expo and Pho Soup Friday
The Oroweat Health and Fitness Expo for the ATT Austin Marathon opens today. Packet pickup, chip testing and all the booths to check out with new, cool stuff. But before the expo opens at 3:00 p.m., it's pho soup time for lunch. Ever since last year before the marathon when I had the flu, eating pho soup the Friday before the race makes everything right. It balances the body into it's ying/yang, acid/alkaline way.
Labels: ATT, Austin Marathon, expo, Oroweat, pho soup
ATT Austin Marathon Course Overview
We just got through posting the ATT Austin Marathon course overview last night to GoodHealth.com. It should be a pretty cool tool for folks running Sunday. I mean you have the course map and elevation and the course intertainment page but the interactive slide show gives you a bird's eye view of the course. You can see the rollers coming, feel the descents and how fast they'll be on Sunday. Maybe faster if there's ice but it doesn't look like it'll be a repeat of last year. The latest forecast has mid-forties for race day.
This wraps up the pre-race articles I've been working on. The next GH article will be post race and cover what the medical folks experienced race day. Seton is the medical sponsor for the race.
Labels: ATT, Austin Marathon, course, Seton, slide show
