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Despite a workout plan that called for 70 easy miles on the bike on Saturday and 7 running on Sunday, I managed to work out pretty much the whole weekend through. Cross training is good, but this may have been a little much.

I woke to a very soggy Saturday morning (with tired legs from a run Friday night) and quickly decided that I would be on the trainer. Our coach says that 1 hour on the trainer can be the equivalent of 1.5 or even 2 hours outdoors, because you get no downhills, no coasting, no rest. So I clipped in with Andrea, Mariana and Coach Troy (a spinervals DVD) and we burned through 2 hours of pure pain. I lost probably half my body weight in sweat, and loved it. From there I went straight to the pool, where we were celebrating a friends 25th birthday by doing 25 x 250s. I had extreme cramping problems throughout that swim set--caused I'm sure by the sweating.

Sunday: swim meet in the morning, followed by an hour on the trainer in recovery mode, and then off for a 7.5 mile run with the whole team. Great run, and fun to be all together working out. We ran instead of riding because the weather this weekend has been so bad that riding has been all but impossible. This coming week doesn't look to be much better, but I'm going out regardless. I can't take many more trainer sessions (much as I love Coach Troy).  

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