Finally back below one hour!

Afer spending a few hours at work today, I sneaked off to Tyler State Park to get in a quick ride.   This was my 6th time to ride out there this month and my 6th time to ride out there, since March 2008?!?!?!  Wow!  Before the two rides in March of '08, the only other time I rode out there was September of 2007.  My times were much worse.  

So anyway, I finally rode loops A, B, C and D in less than an hour!  I turned 59:15.  I know that's not as fast as some, but it's a milestone in my mountain bike training (Remember I promised to get faster and stronger on the bike, after our Big Chill Adventure Race???).  

I didn't feel all that energetic today and my legs felt a little dead, but I could tell that I still had some pretty good strength left.  I did work out with weights and run this morning, so I'm sure that had a little to do with feeling a little drained.

I'm very excited about not having a significant injury going into this year!  My back injury in February 2007 REALLY slammed me.  Knock on wood, I feel GREAT!

The duathlon is in two days, so my plan is to work out pretty hard tomorrow, take off Friday, while setting up the course and then have a good dinner.  Hopefully, I can have a good, strong race on Saturday.  I plan to push myself pretty hard.  GOTTA MAKE IT HURT!