Hanging Rock

Carl, Philip and I rode to Hanging Rock and up the mountain and back yesterday. Total round trip of just ove 70 miles, but some real good hills. I had a tough time with it. I had a blow out about 25 miles into the ride. Daddy Carl fixed it for me, but that led to about a 15 minutes undscheduled stop. Carl and Philip made it to the top without stopping, but I had nothing left and had to stop on the way up. I needed water badly and so I spent close to 30 minutes at the top preparing my camelback and eating a sandwhich. On the way back I was nothing but dead weight. I'm just breathing every body's air - just getting in the way. I didn't lead at all on the return trip and started cramping up with 10 miles left. Had to pull over and rest. I was just exhausted. My legs felt fine, but I was just tired. Either I'm in a lot poorer shape than I thought, or my body hasn't recovered yet from the 1/2 ironman last weekend. I'm using the 1/2 ironman excuse for now. I did a 3.5 mile run today, but had to walk several times - again, just worn out. Normally 3.5 miles barely gets my heart rate up. I'm going to try to rest a little better this week to recover so I can bounce back. We averaged 15 mph on the way there. I re-set my odometer at that point and showed us averaging 18.7 mph on the return trip - mine is off a little, and I really thought we were over 20 because rarely did I see my speed dip below that.