BRICK

This morning I did my first solo "brick" workout for my triathlon. This workout involves doing a bike ride followed with a run. It is called a "brick" because that is what your legs feel like as you start your run immediately following a long bike ride (and not, as I was exhaustively trying to figure out, a splice between "bike" and "run," as no such combination of the words bike and run form the aggregate "Brick"). My knees are still trying to recover from my hour run yesterday am, but my muscles and knees fared surprisingly well today. I now have more respect for cyclists riding in the bike lane on the beach boardwalk - I'm surprised I never hit anyone as people are completely retarded and will just cross the lane without looking, or will be walking against the flow of traffic.

So today, I rode from Will Rogers Beach to Playa del Rey and back, a nice 80 minute bike ride, roughly about 18 miles or so round trip. Whoo hoo! The ride was really nice because it was along the beach so I just got to take in the beautiful scenery of the santa monica mountains to the north, the ocean to the west, and the various boardwalks and beach front restaurants and eateries that Ocean has to offer - including Venice where all the freaks hang out. :-) After that I had a short run, only 10 minutes, and then I was done! And now for recovery...