Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Decided with this being a crazy week with traveling to Minneapolis to my brother's for Thanksgiving that I would take this week off from my bike training.  I will pick up Week 4 this coming Sunday.  I am having an issue with keeping the noise down and waking the kids up in the mornings, so I have been diligently (or at least kind of) on getting the room downstairs finished.  When I mean finished, just electrical finished up, so i can at least insulate the ceiling and walls.  This should keep enough of the noise down that I can ride my bike in the mornings without causing too much havoc with the family.

We ended up driving up to Minneapolis to spend a few days with my brother and his family.  It was nice to see them and their kids and have our kids play with them and my sister's kids.  It was a great few days with my parents, brother and sister's families.  I managed to get in 2 quality runs while I was up there.  I ended up doing 6 miles on Thanksgiving morning and another 4 today.  It was a great change of scenery running around Lake Minnetonka and the rolling hills provided the right amount of challenge.  All in all my body and legs felt great.  I need to get in at least one run per week now that wrestling has started just to keep my muscle memory up.  I should be able to accomplish this on Sunday's during the course of the season.  I am thinking right now, my swimming is going to struggle until wrestling season is over, but I guess that is the way it goes.  I will have to get it started in March.  That still gives me 3 months of swimming to get me up to be able to swim in the Half Iron.  Well that is about it for now.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Cycling Week 3

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Started Week 3 of my winter cycling on Sunday and my legs are starting to become really sore.  I rode my second workout of the week this morning at 4:30 am.  That seems to be the only time I can get my workout in now with wrestling season starting.  I don't want to have to ride at night after I get home from a brutal practice and i don't want to have to sacrifice family time, so mornings seem to be the best fit.  I need to finish the electrical in the room downstairs, so I can get the room insulated.  I think I might have woke up the kids this morning towards the end of my workout.  I normally have the tv on, but I just had it on this morning with no sound so i could at least keep my mind from drifting.  I used my ipod too but apparently the noise of my bike is still pretty loud.  Hopefully I can work on the insulation this weekend if I can finish the wiring. 

Like I said before, wrestling practice has officially begun and it should be an exciting year.  We are probably only goign to have abougt 16 kids out this year, but that seems to be the average here the last couple of years.  Oh well, the kids we do have should be really solid and I am hoping for some quality results by the end of the year. 

Winter Cycling Plan

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This is this week's workout from my winter cycling coach.  It is a 3 day a week plan for 14 weeks and it should be interesting to see how my legs hold up.  I will have to fit my workouts in when the kids go to bed but it shouldn't be too big of an issue.