Braking is not the easiest part of biking for me. I had some medium sized shims put in to help me reach the brakes; those worked OK, but my hands were still getting pretty tired when having to break more often (going through the city, down hill, etc.) so I had some bigger shims put in. Those did not work for me. Had then taken out and my back brake started acting up. Long story short, I ended up having to leave the bike at the shop on Friday which I was (and am!) really bummed about. Biking is my weakest link in the tri disciplines and a weekend without riding on the real road is bad news for me, especially with only a few more weekends before the tri (three to be exact). I went to spin class at the gym down the street from our condo on Saturday morning instead since I was supposed to get 23 miles in. Definitely wasn't the same, but better than nothing I suppose. Kept the heart rate up and sweated buckets. I did the hour of class and then stuck around for another 30 minutes to get the full 1.5 hour ride in that was on my training schedule. We spent the rest of the day running some errands and between the errands and our morning work outs, we worked up quite an appetite. Jon cooked up some delicious steaks and homemade french fries (seriously the best I've ever had!), along with yummy corn on the cob (yay summer!).
On Sunday the hubby and I decided we should get some open water swim practice in so we headed out to Sandy Point State Park. Word to to the wise: Maryland state parks are not free. It cost us $6 per person just to get onto park property and then we had to park a hike and a half away from the beach... which was especially annoying when I left my swim cap in the car. But we got a good 50 minute swim in in some pretty rough water. My shoulder is bugging me a bit today (the 2800 I swam on Friday probably didn't help matters), but hopefully it will be better when I hop in the pool later this week.
Monday morning so I better get back to work.
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