Brick (not house)

so, anyone know what a brick is? chirp chirp?

Brick is a combined workout for training. It is a bike leg followed by a run. I am not sure by I assume they call them bricks for the feeling you get in your legs when you try to shift from the bike to the run. Pretend you have cement instead of blood in the lower half of your body and you start to get the idea.

So today about 75 tri-ers headed down to Haines pt and did combinations of biking and running. The group is filled with very fit, very positive and very encouraging people. Man don't endorphins make for good friends!! I biked with Julia and Ryan for most of the way - 1:15 for about 20 miles and then was going to run with Ryan, but he is like a fricking jamaican track star or something. Totally burned me out right away so I finished by 15 minutes on my own.

The great folks at DC Tri then put on a little BBQ for us. It was mostly BYOF but they provided burgers and dogs. Nothing like beer, doughnuts and brownies by 11:30!

Thank god we have an easy week coming up. I need to back off a little bit but am feeling pretty strong and encouraged so far. Swimming still sucks, but stroke by stroke.