Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Just more stuff

I started taking this supplement called "SportLegs" which is supposed to slow down the lactic acid buildup in your legs during hard exercise (that is, cycling) and lower the pain level of "the burn". I think the stuff works. I've used it four times starting with the duathlon nine days ago and in the last three hard bike rides I've done, including tonight, and my legs feel great. They're tired and hurt to some extent but there hasn't been that aching/burning that I'm used to feeling after hard effort. If my remaining sample packets keep this up, I'm ordering a big bottle of the stuff. I'm becoming a believer.

I knocked out 65 miles last Saturday and around 33 tonight. Still a long way off from being in the shape I'd like to be but you have to build up to it. I think my first race will be the stage race in Alexandria at the end of May. I may be ready by then. However, there's the Arkansas state duathlon in Hot Springs the same weekend and I'm tempted to go do that instead. It's a long way off and there's lots going on in between so we'll see what happens.

Jonnene has done her share of hard workouts: a couple of good rides, a run, and the morning swim in the last handful of days. I can't get up that early on a regular basis (4:40 AM! Totally inhuman!!) so if she does that 2-3 times a week, I'm impressed. I can only get away with that if there's something important going on early in the morning, such as getting up at 4:30 so I can make it to the duathlon in Opelousas...that I can do. Then it's a couple of weeks or longer before I dare try that again!

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