Rained Out – No Brick
Posted by madtrippin on July 8, 2008
Last night I was going to do a full brick. Bricking is what they call the transition from biking to running – apparently a reference to the way your legs react to the change in muscle movement/usage. I’d never heard the term until I decided to do a tri. I’ve done 13 miles on the bike and then run 1 mile after and your legs do feel like bricks.
Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate. It wound up storming pretty hard and I found myself running on the treadmill at the community center for about 35 minutes on an uphill setting most of the time, followed by a light round of weights. I could have biked indoors and then run on the treadmill, but spinning on the exercise bike for an hour bores me to tears. I need to be outside to bike any kind of distance.
Today will be my off day. I’ve trained 3 days in a row and I’m feeling a bit tired, so a rest day will be nice. I’ll have to hit the pool on Wednesday night and then again Saturday and Sunday. I’m only a week and a half away from the race, so I’m going to try and finish up the serious stuff this week and lighten the load next week.
