[Alan T]

With the 5 mile race coming up on Saturday, I was going to take off Thursday and Friday from running to rest my legs. I have found lately with my training that I have gotten my cardiovascular fitness to a level where on my runs my limiting factor generally has been how tired my legs are from the amount that I have been running. So my hope was taking two days off would rest them enough to be fresh on Saturday for the race.

I have problems just sitting around and doing nothing though, so my wife talked me into a quick bike ride Thursday before Elena got out of school. We rode 8.2 miles in 38 minutes, and set a new personal record for my wife on one of the segments. The running and spinning and yoga and such has really helped her be able to keep up on bike better with me now. Even though I was not necessarily speedy myself on a bike before, I always had to slow down to wait for her.

Friday I truly took the day off from running and biking and instead took my oldest daughter to Six Flags for the afternoon. We got the way overpriced Speedpass to make sure that we could go on all of the roller coasters while there. Since we normally go with the younger kids, she doesn't get to ride the ones she likes that much so this was all about that for this trip.

I'm not sure when it happened, but I think it was after going crazy in the tea cups that I suddenly started feeling motion sickness, which is very odd since I never get motion sickness. Maybe it was just something I ate, or maybe I am just getting older but the last 30-40 minutes at the park before it closed I was suffering a bit with my stomach on every ride after that point. We still managed to hit up all of the rides though and she had a blast, so mission successful!