{"id":6012,"date":"2016-07-05T14:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2016-07-05T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:16:26","slug":"chronicles-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/chronicles-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a little harder to love the outdoors when the heat index is trying to kill you on the daily, but I’m still doing my best.<\/p>\n

Bikes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Jul5-2\"<\/p>\n

Friday morning bikey bike commute time!<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s hot as balls outside (right now, it’s feels like 111!!!), but on the bike, it feels… ok.\u00a0 Until you stop.\u00a0 Then the heat comes crashing down on you like a flaming mack truck… but the actual biking parts feel great!<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure in 2015, I cycled outside mayyybe 15 times?\u00a0 I’d have to look it up, but it’s a decent approximation because during tri season I’d make sure to ride outside at least every other week on Saturdays and otherwise I wouldn’t.\u00a0 Well, I’ve done at least that many outdoor rides in the last month.\u00a0 Yay bikes!\u00a0 Yay playing outside!<\/p>\n

\"Jul5-1\"<\/p>\n

Tire, you’re doing it wrong…<\/em><\/p>\n

In fact – this happened to us on Thursday, and we’re just getting it repaired now.\u00a0 We definitely keep a low mileage profile lately.\u00a0 Shame the insurance doesn’t really give discounts for not driving a car much.\u00a0 I think their lowest rate was for 10-12k per year.\u00a0 We don’t usually get half that, in fact, our 3.5 year old Xterra just hit 11k miles.<\/p>\n

Holiday, Celebrate:<\/strong><\/p>\n

My fourth of July weekend was pretty badass.\u00a0 It started with an almost 2 mile swim and 4 mile run under the noontime ball of death.\u00a0 After recovering from the feels like 102-105 temps on that run sucking down liquids under the AC, we meandered our way into the Texas countryside to a friend’s holiday bash.\u00a0 That is, after a false start in which we forgot our food at home and had to turn around when we were halfway there.\u00a0 Oopsie.<\/p>\n

\"Jul5-4\"<\/p>\n

Oh no.\u00a0 Had to look at these views for longer.\u00a0 Aw, shucks.<\/em><\/p>\n

After the mishap was rectified and we got our tent set up, we spent the evening grilling, drinking punch, catching up with friends we hadn’t seen in a while, and tons of time in the pool.\u00a0 Since we were the most sober ones (???), we got recruited to run “front of the house” (aka, the smaller fireworks like fountains and roman candles) while the other guys put on the big booms further away.\u00a0 I’ve never done fireworks before, just watched.\u00a0 It was fun!\u00a0 We only had a few close calls, and everyone made it out with all eyes and appendages intact.\u00a0 Success!<\/p>\n

\"Jul5-5\"<\/p>\n

Since I was helping put on the actual show and not snapping pics, here’s some kids (big and small) playing with sparklers before.<\/em><\/p>\n

We spent the rest of the night playing beer pong, chupacabra dice, and more pool time.\u00a0 And then holy crap it was way, way too late, so we crashed for a few hours in the tent before taking it all down again, and cooling off in the pool again before we headed home because the weather already wanted to kill us at 9:30am.\u00a0 Yay Summer?<\/p>\n

Sunday and Monday were pretty mellow.\u00a0 We stayed around the house, slept, relaxed, caught up on class and chores, and other boring, responsible, but necessary things.\u00a0 However, for the first time ever, we made it out to our neighborhood’s parade and joined in with our bikes.<\/p>\n

\"Jul5-3\"<\/p>\n

T-rex appreciated that we made it to play papparazi.<\/em><\/p>\n

Training Week One:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week was a pretty decent embarkation into an actual schedule.\u00a0 We aren’t popping out of bed at sunrise or anything, but it’s getting easier to set the alarm with something starting with 7.\u00a0 Doing the noontime or evening runs are killer, but 1-2 of those shorties a week need to stay on the schedule until I conquer the feels-like-hot-as-balls heat index shit.<\/p>\n

\"Jul5-7\"<\/p>\n

This is what happens when you’ve stopped sweating and start getting goosebumps on a run, but aren’t willing to see 11 min\/mile average pace.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude1b<\/em><\/p>\n

Week one of training summary:<\/p>\n