training camp complete

well, i managed the following this week:

sun: 3:40 bike on hills
mon: 50 min run on trails
tues: 1:20 road bike
wed: 1:20 road bike
thurs: 3:00 mountain bike @ kettle moraine
fri: off
sat: 3:30 road (including the blue mounds road race)
total: around 13.5 hours of training.

the road race went ok - actually, not bad considering it was my first bike race effort of 2011. the lead out down from brigham park was sketchy and i rode conservatively towards the back of the group. first hill i tried to push a little and the second hill i had made a selection of folks that all worked together pretty well. spent the next 1.5 laps exchanging pulls and catching groups ahead of us. climbing back to brigham a couple guys went and i was boxed in. another guy and i finally got around the clog and chased and i guess i went to soon because i ran out gas with about .75 miles to go. i managed to finish as strong as i could. my plan was to get a good hard race effort in my legs prior to the 24 hour race...check! now my family can come home. right now please.

happy saturday.