17.5KM Long Run and 80KM Long Bike

I had agreed to the invitation of my friends to do a long bike last Sunday. I wasn't signed up to any race event so I thought it was a great idea to have my bike experience its first long journey. The longest it has traveled was around 45KM in a single journey.

Prior to Sunday's long ride, I had to do a long run just to complete my weekly mileage. I thought the Saturday before the long ride was the perfect day. I logged around 17.5KM last Saturday.

I met up with my friends at Kalayaan corner C5. We passed by C5 heading toward Eastwood. We passed by Antipolo until we reached Morong and headed back passing by Cardona, Binangonan and Taytay. At Antipolo we had rice stew (yup lugaw). Going back at Binangonan we passed by a buko stall. I don't know if someone else would agree with me, but drinking buko juice seemed a lot refreshing than drinking a bottle of Gatorade.

After getting back to Manila, we passed by a little bit at Joy's place where we each had a glass of Herbalife shake. I couldn't believe burning 2000 calories could easily feel well replenished by a single 80 calories shake. But really, I felt so full and well nourished after the shake that after reaching home, I had no qualms on heading to Glorietta to accompany my wife shop.

It was my first 80KM ride and it was a fantastic experience that should have a regular slot in my training.

Runs for the Week

Last Sunday and Monday was an absolutely no running day. My concern though for this week is that Ill be out of town again, hiking to Gulugod Baboy Batangas this coming Saturday and Sunday. I will definitely miss my runs again. Hiking would be a good cross training, but to miss another two consecutive runs makes me feel quite uneasy.

So since I only have 4 days to build my training for this week, I've set a mixture of short and long distances with moderate to high intensity levels of training.

Yesterday, I did a short 5K run with an average pace of 4:32min/km. Just this morning, to build up my mileage for the week, I did an easy to moderate run with two of my fort striders buddy (Glen & Reggie) and logged on my Suunto watch 10.88km run around the fort area with an average pace of 4:57. Tomorrow will perhaps be a another 10K run, but with will be logging a harder pace.