Bricks!

Bricks! Such a heavy load.

Last Saturday our practice was a 5-mile bike ride followed by a 1-mile run. Repeat that four times. We were practicing transitions. Brick is the term for the combo practice we are doing. They really do feel like you are carrying a load of bricks around.

Is this running going to ever get better? For a while there I thought I really liked running. Right now it just seems very, very hard.

Fortunately, it wasn't actually raining during practice. The roads were a little wet from earlier storms, but water wasn't actually coming out of the sky while we rode.

When you are raising money to combat cancer, it seems like you should get a free pass from cancer -- a 'Get Out of Jail' card that keeps you and your family cancer free. But no, it doesn't work that way. We had a teammate drop out Saturday, as she was just diagnosed with breast cancer. Wisely, she is going to spend her energy battling that.