YSL: Days 40, 41

Coach Mike hates me. He came over yesterday and did some god-awful thing to me that involved strapping me to my bike and making me do intervals at 100%. He called it a "bike test." This is Coach-Speak for ensuring that the latent athlete (this is what he calls me) is nutso enough to want to continue on this training regimine even after he's done the "bike test."
Cool results, though: Check out the chart he built out of my heart rate. The efforts were 8 minutes long, broken up by a 10-minute break and preceded by two three-minute 100% efforts. I think those two were just for his absolute enjoyment.

In the first effort, in blue, I started a little low (target RPM: 95-105), and Coach Mike gave me the split at 2 minutes, so you can see where I ramped it up a bit after I heard I only had two minutes left.
In the second effort, you'll notice a more even effort throughout, until one minute left during the test. I asked Coach Mike to wait until the one-minute marker, which may not have been the best strategy, because then he got all up in my stuff. I thought I had joined the military.
I crashed on the couch after eating a bowl of wheat noodles, and slept for about forty minutes, and then I got up and did my tempo run, with some strides thrown in.
Today sucked balls:
2 hours Endurance Bike miles (heart rate low 140s avg)
50-minute endurance run, cut short at 45 minutes because I HATE THE TREADMILL and my form started to fall apart and I got all disoriented and bubbly headed.
1 hour in the pool, mostly drills and three sets of 200s.
I did this workout all back-to-back.
I hate the treadmill. I hate it, I hate it. I'll do whatever I can now to stay off of it. What an awful machine.
I had a momentary lapse of nutritional weakness today after this very long effort. I dreamt of going out and getting myself a ridiculously large hamburger or a meatloaf wrapped in bacon, or some other equally large hunk of red meat. I called PB, who talked me off the ledge and convinced me to go eat some fish and chips instead. Hooray for veg-head sponsors.
I'm going to give this vege-quarium thing until August (one full year) before I decide if I want to call it quits or not. I'm not sure I'm any healthier than I was before, but it does make me a better educator about the environment, and that makes it worth it.