July 30th Run & Bike Hayden Lake

When Julienne suggested last night that we bike around Hayden Lake with Shiela Sharp     I said yes I'd love to go. 

This morning the alarm went off at 5:30am. I got up and off running the 4.3 miles from our home to Honeysuckle Beach. I can't believe my time and how smooth it was. Maybe because it was downhill and maybe because it was a lot easier than my descent from Lake Stevens on Saturday, but I ran the 4.3 miles in approximately 33 minutes. That is a 7:40 per mile pace. I haven't ran that speed for years, maybe decades. Usually I am around 8:15 to 8:30 mile pace. I haven't been taking my phone with me the past few weeks and have been running free.  I didn't take it either today. I left home at 5:56 and arrived at about 6:26. That would be 30 minutes for under 7 min miles but without a stop watch I decided that I needed to add a minute on the beginning and the end and probably assume it wasn't a full 4.3 miles like my Apple iPhone 5 Maps apps said it was because that just sounded too good, so I tacked 3 minutes on. Now I am getting interested in seeing what I can really do.

We met Shiela at Honeysuckle Beach and planned to maybe go out and back because I had a conference call at 8:30am and wasn't sure what kind of shape she was in. She is in very good shape. As soon as we started biking and I was behind Julienne and Shiela I could see Shiela's well defined biking calf muscles and knew they didn't get that way without a lot of dedication and effort on her part. She was fun to bike around the lake with.

Julienne and I so much enjoy friends that we do activities with. Although our last son, Johnny,  leaves home for college next month and we become empty-nesters, we are not ready to sit in an easy chair with slippers on and read the newspaper all day long.

My weight?  157.7 pounds. Still 21.7% of body fat, but it sure feels like more muscle is developing.

For the triathlon I have three words now:

Survive the swim
Attack the bike
Glide the run.

We'll see how well they serve me in a few days.

Later on in the evening, I went waterskiing with my son Dave Dance who just moved into his new house at The Falls and starting working at the North Idaho Eye Clinic.  The water was not the smoothest, but I ski without my glasses and can't see it anyway.  After that I began to run home and got maybe a mile to mile and a half in until Julienne caught up with me in the truck and brought me the rest of the way home.  It is so nice to feel free to run anyplace at anytime and feel like I can do it in a gliding relaxed way without too much huffing and puffing. I was sweating when she picked me up and was running up a hill that continues for a mile on Rimrock but gliding up feeling strong while doing so.  That is one of the great benefits of training.

At home I was tired and got to bed at 11pm grateful for the four exercise periods in one day and all the work I got done in between.