Memorial in the MASS!

Hey everyone!! Happy post Memorial day!! Sweet signs of great weather and sunshine!!! Hooorayyy!!! I went up to visit my buddy in Mass this weekend...outskirts of Boston. Just beautiful!! Got in some great training in prep for Eagleman in TWO weeks!!!! i can't believe how close it is!!!! Went up Thursday Eve and trained through Monday AM....at which point i drove back to Jersey to mom's place and ate myself into a sweet fat trance of Memorial justice. haha...it was perfect. Last good fat meal before i attempt to drop weight for Eman. Train heavy...race light. :) So Thursday I trained at Cadence in the AM-then drove up. Friday I got in a Run (just 30 min), bike (1 hr 30 min flat), swim (45 min). Saturday i did a race in the AM--duathlon--short and fast as hell...I'll revisit this--but 2m run 12m bike 2m run. Then I came back and rode an additional 40m hard with some great climbing. Sunday i got up and did the Boston Half Marathon--not hard-took it really easy. I ran it "bandito"...just hopped in the masses at the start. It was awesome!! SOOOO beautiful....the course and the weather. The weekend wasn't a lot of "volume" per say but it was a lot of quality and perfect for wrapping up a very intense training block. I'll start the taper this week-i think...gotta check my schedule. The duathlon on Sat was GREAT training and hard as HELL. I essentially red lined my HR for the entire duration. Mind you-I hate short course. It is SO hard for me as I am just not that speedy--like the kind of speedy you need to be to win those events. Either way-I had the fastest overall female bike split--my cyfac "cadence" (as she is called) is RIPPING fast. My run to follow suffered as I just couldn't keep my HR in check. I left T2 in second place and got passed in the last .20 mile by a girl who had a full 1 minute on me in her run split...in other words she was running over 30 seconds a mile faster than me in the second run...she was bound to catch me--as the run was only 2 miles. I just couldn't hang...i gave it EVERYTHING i had and I knew she was coming and making up ground but I just couldn't get to the finish line fast enough--my HR was like 210 and i was seeing spots and my mouth looked like a st. bernard. It sucks when you are passed in that state but she deserved the win. I ended up in 3rd place overall and lost to 2nd place by 6 seconds. the girl who won the race was running 5 min miles--i haven't seen that kind of speed....ever. But i smoked her bum on the bike.... :) Thanks to my Cyfac and my handy dandy computrainer training!!! :) Doesn't really matter though as she still won...takes some good sticks to run that fast.
Not nice to be back in dirty jersey but at least its Tuesday so we're almost to the halfway mark of the week! NICE! Monday's are always a treat to have off!! My training is going to be really reduced in volume and upped in quality. lets keep our fingers crossed that i have a successful taper and hopefully i'll see the lava beds of KONA at the finish line at Eagleman.