7-Mile Run and Castle Ride

Monday I did a 7 mile run in the reverse route of last Monday's 7-miler with a slight modification. There's a small bike shop near the club and my training partner (Cecilie) wanted to see a tri bike they had on display, so we swung into the shopping center and looked at that. Then started up again and did a big loop. She very subtlety bumbed up the pace at one point and I found myself unable to talk. Looked at the Garmin and we were running at 7:41 pace, so I tried to keep it there as long as I could just gasping comments when needed. Then finally said "can you slow down just a bit". She said "I was wondering when you were going to say that". Anyway, she did that a couple more times during the run for tempo work, then down to a 10:00 pace so I could breath again. The third time she did that the Garmin said a 7:25 pace. Back to the club for 7 miles in 1:01 for an 8:43 pace. She had to go before the swim, so I thought I'd have to swim alone for the first time in months. But when I got to the pool a girl from the team was there and I joined here for 700, then a guy from the team joined us for 1000 more.
Tuesday Cecilie and I rode out past the castle (top picture) and out a river road and up some good sized hills. We had a headwind the first part of the ride and I still had to really push it to stay with her as she led. Climbing the hills I tried to keep her within pitching wedge distance (100 yards). This is a new experience, usually I'm waiting at the top for the people I ride with, not with Cecilie. Thinking of buying a tri bike, so I have made the granny ring (small front ring) off limits and some of the hills Tuesday I normally would have used it, but the tri bike has only two rings in front so I have to get used to that. Stats: 20.5 miles 15.8 average.
I must apologize for the last post. After a couple comments I realized I forgot a crucial bit of info. It should have read a very pretty married girl. If it had been a very pretty single girl, I would have tripped over myself ripping the bike off the trainer. As it is I still felt bad, because she is really nice and part of the tri group. I love working out with all the girls, but they are all married.