*Sigh* yes it's true. I speak of my dads comment in the post below. I did indeed have my four wisdom teeth removed yesterday morning and I did indeed go on a 30 mile bike ride about 5 hours later with the gauze pads still in my mouth. Truthfully though I felt much better for having gotten out and done the ride rather then sitting around making excuses for taking the day off. Honestly after I slept for about an hour and the effects of the anesthesia wore off I felt fine. I didn't even take the hydrocodine prescribed to me, just a little bit of ibprofen.
I did go biking yesterday however having my wisdom teeth taken out has somewhat disrupted the 10 day training block I'm in the middle of. Going into thursday I'd been averaging about 3.5 hrs a day with tuesday clocking in at 5.5 hrs. A lot of biking for sure but it has been good. Today I did another 2 hr ride then tried to swim a little but after 25 minutes I noticed I had a little bit of blood in my mouth and called it quits. As hard as I tried to keep my mouth closed somehow water was still getting in and swishing around. I did 40 minutes of strength training and the gauze pads I'd put back in were slightly soaked with blood so I decided to nix the run. I may go do a little running and drills now but I reallly want to avoid dry sockets as I've been told they are very painful.
This last weekend I did have fun doing the Jogg'r egg nogg'r. A local 5k that brought out some pretty good competition. When I say competition I mean REALLY FAST competition. The winner ran 5 minute miles flat and I was nowhere near close to that. I was pretty satisfied with my time of 18:13 (5:52 pace) especially considering the cold wet conditions and the fact that my legs were still really, really sore and stiff and tight from playing soccer thursday. I mean soccer really beat me up bad.
Honestly I realize that I can't really compare myself to pure runners. I know and have become ok with the fact that for where I am right now there are 15 and even 14 year old boys who can run faster then me. (Though I don't think they could average 25 mph on a bike THEN run that fast) However my ego definitely took a hit when halfway through the jogg'r egg nogg'r I was passed by two 11 year old boys. I wouldn't have believed it if they hadn't chugged past me before my very eyes. I swear they were barely higher then my waist and it was a horrible feeling to know I was already going all out and could not hang with them. They beat me by 9 seconds and anyone who says that 9 seconds is very close let me tell you- 9 seconds is a HUGE gape. There was no way I was going to catch them. I did manage to outkick the 40 something year old man who tried to pass me in the last mile. I guess I'll have to resign myself to beating men 3 times my age. Oh well.
I hope to have a few more days of good training then a break the day after christmas. Yes my coach is an absolute mercenary she has my biking 3 hours on Christmas day!! Ahh well. It has been enjoyable this week to live the life of a pro triathlete. Essentially I have been eating, sleeping, and training. I really think I could do this for a living!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
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