Mother Nature Round 2

So,

Mother Nature is a bitch! Yes she is. The heat keeps on coming down here in Texas. This weekend I was on duty, so I could not execute my workouts till the afternoon.
Which sucked.

Saturday: i had a 3 mile warmup, 2 x 2.5 miles @ 15 min, then a cool down. Thats the funny part, how was i supposed to cool down. It was over 100 when i began, without the heat index on the black track. What should have been a relatively hard/not so hard workout turned out to be an overheating nightmare. I had to stop half way on each to re-hydrate, but I finished. So it was a 0.5 point tie. Mother Nature 1.5 - Liam 1.5.

This should have been posted:



Sunday: i had a four hour intensive ride in the hills followed by a falf hour transition run. I passed through Anderson, TX and the bank read 102 degrees, and i had 2hrs and 20min left. At about 2hrs, i recieved a text from Kelly who was about 30miles south,

"dropped 20 degrees and clouds rolled in. windstorm and i am getting stabbed by pine needles. call me if you need a ride. May storm."

Followed by,

"lightning and thunder 45 seconds apart. not safe. its getting closer. im scared"

So needless to say, it came my way. Kelly got back to her car safely, but I was past the forest and back to open texas. Lightning is pretty horrifying down here compared to back home. I wanted to get away from that storm as it was heading towards me. the wind got so strong, i literally almost got knocked off my bike from the gusts.

it kinda looked like this:



i had to book it through the hills to get back to anderson to the gas station for shelter. as i rolled in the rain came, and the bank thermometer read 78 degrees! I camped out for about a half hour, and finished the workout. I can not tell you how much easier it was to climb through those hills at 78 compared to 100.

Mother Nature tried to get me, but i got it all in. Liam 2.5 - Mother Nature 1.5.

Either way, i am tired. Now we have a little hurricane coming in called Eduard. So work might get a little interesting and the trainer looks like it will have a friend tommorow.