Update

It's been about 3 weeks since my last entry. In that time I've run 46 miles and ridden 163 miles. This includes a grueling 52.5 mile ride into the hills NW of where I live:

I had about 2,000 feet of climbing to do on that day. The climbing is fairly similar to that which we will do on the third day of the trek. In fact, the first 10 miles is the exact same first 10 miles of day 3. Not bad, if I do say so myself. There is less than 2 weeks left until we begin. This week, I need to really focus on putting in some miles on the bike and raising some more money. I'm going to call around to a few businesses/institutions in the area that might be interested and then spend some time next weekend knocking on doors. We'll see how it goes. Speaking of the trek, someone submitted the route to mapmyride. The elevation seems to be a little weird/off, but other than that, you can check to see if we'll be riding close to you by clicking on the map below:

Oh, and a small pic of what our Jersey will look like this year:

Back at it

I went out of town (to Pittsburgh) last weekend. Since I was driving home on Sunday, I didn't get to do last week's long run (5miles). I did, however, play Vikingball before leaving the 'burgh. Awesome.

Anyway...so I got a bit of a, non-traditional, workout on Sunday and was back to running today(it would have been a 5k had I not gotten lost):

3-mile Tuesday

Today I started the fourth week of a 10k running regime. My general workout plan for the trek is to continue to focus on this running regime for the next few weeks (provided that my foot/ankle/achilles holds up), continue to add bike rides on a couple of my rest/x-training days every week, watch some initial pounds drop off, and then switch more fully to cycling in June . My reasoning might not be completely sound, but I really think that the whole body workout that running gives is more effective (especially when I take into consideration the time I need to put into both) and although I really need to get some miles in on the bike, past riding/running experience tells me that I am able to ramp up the riding miles fairly quickly if I'm in good cardio/muscular shape. So...that's how I've rationalized sticking to the running program for a bit longer (I'm also quite happy that I've been running for over 3 weeks and my foot still feels pretty good...first time that's happened in over 2 1/2 years).

Anyway...today's run:

Thanks for checking in on me. Cheers!

Moo!

Minicards, that is. I just ordered some to pass out for fundraising purposes. Image (thanks to doodleandhoob!):

On the back it says:

Become a part of my ride by donating:
http://www.active.com/donate/Trek2009/PGavin
More information on ALS TDI and the Tri-State Trek:
http://www.als.net/
http://www.tristatetrek.com/
Follow my training:

http://bikemeback.blogspot.com

Pretty snazzy, in my opinion. Now I just need to get out and hand them to people who are interested in helping.