Run, Bike, Run

After two surgeries this year (First one a left  knee scope with repair and the second the end of May removing a neuroma in my left foot) I have done what every fat man would think of doing, competing in a duathlon. When I had my first surgery & laying on the couch recovering,  I started looking for a fittness  goal. Then I found it, a true sign if I had ever seen it, a run that is collecting food for the Ronald McDonald House. Just in case you are wondering it’s not MY house, but a charity that provides a place for families and children to stay while receiving treatment at hospitals such as Seattle’s Childrens Hospital.

The event that I have chosen is the 3rd Annual Lake Easton Duathlon put on by AdventureWorks, LLC. It will be a 2 mile trail run followed by a 8 mile mountain bike ride then finishing up with another 2 mile run. I’m going to have my work cut out for me. I currently run 5-6 days a week and try to throw in a couple of bike rides on top of it.  You can follow my training on Training Peaks , Go Wagon as user themickeyd and on my twitter account “recumbent_clyde”.

Well, it’s amazing what 3 days in Las Vegas will do to you. Well, tomorrow will be back on the diet and back on the bike. The wife and I did a whole bunch of walking but the meals at Rao’s, Thomas Keller’s “Bouchon” and Wolfgang Puck’s “Postrio” really didn’t help. So back to my after work intervals on the trainer for a real work out.

While in Vegas the Tour of California started and it was a bit hard to follow on my iPhone at first. But the Twitter community has really kicked into overdrive. With Twitterrific I was able to follow the race pretty much up to the minute thanks to the likes of Twitters @tourdetweets, @cyclefilm and @jonofTeamWill. Once back on the ground in Seattle I was able to get caught up on the events that happened while in the air, even before the jet got to the gate.