The last week has been pretty uneventful fortunately. No more beestings although I have been a bit paranoid riding my bike. The Alburtis 5k was held on Saturday and I was the official race photographer again. The next couple days after it were tied up with getting the race photos uploaded onto my photography site. Training-wise, this was the largest build week so far this season. I am headed up to the Finger Lakes this weekend which makes for a great place to get in some quality training.
Thursday I squeezed in a killer hill-repeat workout before we headed out on our way to the Finger Lakes. The nice thing about leaving that late is that the roads were pretty free of traffic. We arrived at the lake around 11:30PM and quickly unloaded. I read a little bit of Finding Ultra and hit the hay.
I slept as soundly as I usually do at the Lake. It was a bit overcast in the morning and there were some heavy storms threatening. We decided to head over to Ithaca(NY) for some lunch at the Moosewood Restaurant for some vegetarian food in lieu of my morning swim. Lunch was really good. I had a Sweet Potato Corn Chowder soup and a Falafel burger over rice. For dessert, I had a vegan chocolate cake which was outrageous. It was almost 3PM by the time we got done our lunch, so thoughts of doing any other activities went out the door. I still needed to do a 30 min swim and a 40 min run yet today. Our parking meeting ran over our time and we ended up getting a $15 parking ticket too. Great.
We made our way back to the house and I jumped into my wetsuit for my swim. My Father-In-Law paddled out in the kayak and was following me so that boats would not run me over. Apparently he was behind me for some time before I even realized he was there. The wind was whipping from the south and it really created some waves heading in that direction. As I swam that way, the waves would crack me in the head. Every once-in-a-while I would sight and get smacked in the face with water. When I turned around and headed north up the lake it was a sweet cruise, Keuka Lake is such a nice lake to swim in and really enjoy doing OWS(open-water) swims here.
After my swim, I changed into my run clothes and headed down to the Hammondsport High School track to do my run workout. Tonight was a 4x60sec pickups workout which I like to do on a track. The track here is pretty nice and more spongy than the Emmaus track. My legs were a little wobbly from the swim, but I still managed to get my last repeat under a 6:00/mi pace. It was a really nice cool night to run and a consistent breeze kept things cooled off.
I headed back to the house and jumped back in the lake for a little post-run bath. The water was a little bit cooler this time without the wetsuit on, but once I got in it felt really refreshing. We enjoyed a nice dinner and a fine bottle of Heron Hill‘s Game Bird White.
