Sunday morning came, and I woke up with cement legs. I guess I shouldn’t have been too surprised, given the riding yesterday, but still it hurt. I fired up the coffee and searched the room for my motivation, but it was hiding out big time. After two cups of coffee and resetting all the clocks (losing an hour!), I got into the car to drive to the Town Lake.
It’s a gorgeous running path that circles the lake. I put in 1.5 loops and some random turns to log a nice 19 miler. I actually felt really good, running about 7:25/mile, but I was mentally done. Seeing all the families coming out for a nice walk made me seriously homesick. Forget cramps, homesickness is definitely worse!
My totals for the three days: 3k swim, 185 bike, 29.25 run in about 14.5 hours.
For those of you keeping score at home, that’s about twice what I have been doing in a single week. 
Once again showing that volume is totally overrated. About the only thing you need to go longer is a lot more food, some serious mental strength, and maybe some music (needed mine).
Time to recover for one last night here at SXSW, then off to an early flight. Gonna be fun!
Be well,
Patrick
Hi, I'm Patrick McCrann. 
