Toe cramps suck

I finally got some decent sleep, and boy do I feel better. The two nights previous to last night I got a grand total of 7.5 hrs sleep. Yay, whoop-di-doo ... don't know how I was even able to train.

Legs felt alright today though a little tight. I thought about running. I thought about swimming. I thought about doing both. I ended up doing neither. So no training today. Too many calls about work, etc. to take care of and I lost a few hours this morning as I elected to nap, still tired from the past days. I try to listen to my body ... sometimes. Anyway, I hadn't had a rest day since last Saturday.

Dirk called me and congratulated me on the public declaration of my needing to adapt more regular sleep habits. He's been saying it for months. I tell you folks, I'm working hard on it, but I remember even in junior high school, I pulled all nighters just to read a book, an entire book. What can I say ... I'm a little extremist :-)

Thursday's training:

Metalboy and I went cycling on the West Island and out on Ile Perrot. He's real cool and my other Ironman friend. I've seen him metamorphose from a 300 lb. once-in-a-whiler gym guy who couldn't run 50m to marathon runner to triathlete to Ironman, and all in a period of about four years. Wow, I'm so proud of him. It's wonderful to have his support, and if he can do it, so can I ... (gulp!)

The ride went pretty smoothly, with the exception of my horrible toe cramp that made us stop for a good 10 minutes or so. Anyone ever get that? Just out of the blue? Metalboy thought it was funny - he could see my second toe seizing up and bending unnaturally because of the muscle spasm. I didn't think it was funny at all but forgave him because he was able to work out the spasm by massaging the muscle just below my toe. Whew! Good thing too that Metalboy is a big guy (6'4") as I was able to draft behind him to catch my breath every once in a while and also get more speed.

So basically, a pretty good ride over all and even a few hills worked into the course. Frankly, I haven't cycled more than 30km, and this rarely, since my fanatic cycling days 13 years ago when I used to pull off 85km easily on my heavy mountain bike. So I guess I'm not doing too badly, and as Metalboy says, we're still early in the season.

He mentioned that we should plan to go cycling around the Jay Mountain area and do the hills there ... ugh ... I agreed.