Accountability - Recovery Week & Friends

Monday, July 14, 2025 - recovery week! Well deserved if I do say so myself. Plus, we're doing a sprint triathlon on Sunday, woo!! 1,600m swim today. Felt super low pressure, good stuff!

SWIM

Tues, July 15 - 30mins on the KickR this morning followed by 2 solid hours of yardwork (opted for this over a 30min run as it was a necessity and super hard work!)...

BIKE + Yardwork

Weds, July 16 - another low pressure swim for 1,500m. Feeling a weird pain or something in my right shoulder. This is new...

SWIM

Thurs, July 17 - another recovery bike and short run today. 30mins on the KickR and 3 mile run outside - hills and heat! Mavi, Sinjin, and April arrived (friends from Hawaii visiting Italy) in the late evening. Ready for some Rome adventures...

BIKE + RUN

Friday, July 18 - we woke up this morning to our car broken in to. Two windows completely busted in. We sent our friends to downtown Rome and spent several hours cleaning it up - in all aspects. Police, insurance, glass...momma mia. 

Eventually we made our way to Rome and explored the remaining of the day.

REST DAY

Sat, July 19 - sent our friends to downtown Rome for some Vatican action while we prepped for our sprint tri tomorrow. Later, we joined them downtown before an early night. I like to do a bike and leg check the day before a race but this did not happen. 

REST DAY

Sun, July 20 - Lake Bracciano sprint triathlon. I swam 900 meters, biked 12 miles, and 5k run. Finished in 1:40 - little longer than I wanted but all good. 

SPRINT TRIATHLON - SWIM BIKE RUN

Friends visiting and a sprint triathlon were a great part of recovery week. I have hurt my shoulder/upper back (right side). I'm not sure what/why/how... but it hurts. So I'm going to anti-inflammatory up and give it some swim rest for a few days. We'll see. Next week is back to normal - business as usual! Well, sort of ha ha ha!