What the Heck is a Triple Brick?

Well, I call it Bike, Run, Ick, but it's really just called a Brick....

But I'm sure there is some official name and reason why it's called a brick workout. Well Saturday July 25th was certainly and "Iron Up" workout day.

We started at 7am, 30 mile bike, not too hilly, followed by a nice and flat 5 mile run.

Then we had to do that 3 times, yes, 3 times.

90 miles of biking and 15 miles of running, 105 miles in total all in one workout.

About 9 hours later I finished. Had a great day and my nutrition worked well. It started to get hot in the afternoon, mid 90s, so that was perfect training for Louisville.

So what's another 35.6 miles on race day?!

BRING IT ON!!!

Counting down to August 30th in Louisville.

3 Mile Swim, 17 mile run, 85 mile bike... bring it on!

June 11/12 was a long one for workouts, but over really quickly.

What happened to relaxing weekends?! They'll have to wait until September. This is it. Only 45 days left.

Saturday was a 3 mile open water swim, followed by a 17 mile run.

Thank goodness we did 4 loops of 4.5 miles each so we could come back to the car and reload our water and nutrition. Water stops on race day will be a GOOD THING!!

Then after that, on Sunday we had an 85 mile bike ride that included pretty much every hill range in the east bay! 8400-8500 ft of climbing? And it was in the 90s! A nice cool day for a bike ride.

A true "Iron Up" weekend.
I did sleep about 11 hours on Sunday night.....

Sleep is a good thing right?

Is 104 degrees really that hot??!!

Saturday June 27th, we had a "brick" workout.

That means, Bike, run, ick, I just added the "ick" part as it was really icky on Saturday June 27th. 104 degrees to be exact!

Those of us on my team racing at Ironman Louisville on August 30th only had to do 2 rounds of 30 mile bike and 5 mile run "bricks".

Those on my team racing at Vineman on August 1st, had to do 3, yes you read correctly, 3 rounds of 30 mile bike and 5 mile runs for their workout. YIKES, they were truly doing their workout in a brick oven since it was 104 degrees in Danville. My time will come on July 25th.

We all made it and went through 300 lbs of ice that day at our water stops!

I hope have ice in Louisville, KY.

It was a true "Iron Up" day.....

It's going to be hot in Louisville so we need to practice.

Bring it on...