My first long brick

It's time to start into some longer bricks. Up until now I've been doing some decent distance Saturday rides but shorter or no runs afterwards. But with 3 months to go to Miami its time to get more serious. I got in touch with Chris and we agreed on a 80-90 km ride and my plan was a longer than regular run afterwards. We headed north on York Durham to Bloomington like usual and turned east. Originally I was going to head along Hwy 47 but decided to turn north at Concession 2 to avoid some traffic and ride some less travelled roads. We decided on Zephyr as our destination and followed Concessions 2 and 4 north to our turnaround and rode back south on Concession 3. Well, we discovered that Concession 3 was quite a bit more hilly than the other roads. My legs were getting a bit tired coming south and my mind kept wandering to the run I was planning afterwards and I debated on what distance to do. It had to be longer than normal no matter how my legs felt so I tried to back off some on the ride but those hills made it hard regardless. This was going to be a good test for me. We finally ended the ride at 86 km and a 30 k/hr average speed and my legs were complaining but I got out of my bike gear and threw on my runners and headed down the road. Even though my legs were rough I pushed myself to see what I was capable of. My legs started to come around by about 2 km and I maintained my pace where I wanted it and did 9.5 km at a 5:00 pace. I was very happy with that. It made me confident that I could slow down some if I needed to and still complete a half marathon so today was an important step in my training.