She's a Brick (pause) House

Today we did our first brick. We have been meaning to start these on the weekends, but have just found other things to do on weekends like 5Ks, and well, sleeping. So today was the day. We started by riding around the neighborhood twice. That went OK. It was our first trip out on our bikes with our new helmets. So we did our laps, then we ditched the bikes and decided to run for 20 min.

I only managed to make it by telling myself it was only for 20 minutes. I don't know how those Ironman people do it. I assume that after a set amount of miles your legs finally give up the fight and start to cooperate. It is apparently at some point after 2 miles though, because this didn't happen for me this morning. I'm not sure if you do the bricks so that you can train yourself to get loose while you run or if you do the bricks so you can just get used to running with rubber band legs. Perhaps I'll know better in 5 weeks.

Overall, I thought we were going to be able to take this thing, but now that I've tried the brick, I see we have a long way to go. I hope there's time.