Bike Update

I finished designing the paint scheme for my new bike....I'm really excited to see how it will turn out but also nervous that it won't look the way I am envisioning it......Oh well, its just a bike, right?

I wanted to incorporate the colors of this bike but it won't quite work because I am planning on a fade. If I fade from blue to yellow, then it will appear green (not a good thing) so I decided to fade from blue to white back to blue with yellow letters/logos.















Update on my back....its fine. Healed quickly and just a little tender now to the touch. It hasn't restricted me at all.

Big training block of swimming this week.....6 days of swimming/15,000 yds. or 8.5 miles. Also a little running and biking in there too. I had 4,000 yds. today and could only get through 3500 yds. b/c my legs were cramping so bad I couldn't get through another lap. If anyone reads this and has a tip to stop the cramps, please let me know.

Also did a power test on the bike this week. 8 min. all out on my computrainer to test my power and HR. Results were 321 watts and 165HR. I am very happy with this and my coach was too. My best last year was 299 watts for a 20 min. test. I do these periodically to help design my bike workouts. I can use these numbers as my max efforts and work backwards to determine my training efforts. I would never train at those max efforts because its not sustainable over the period of an entire race, especially an ironman. I might race at 60% of this effort for ironman.