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<\/p>\nHappy National Running Day!\u00a0 Although my back is a little stiff (between 8 hours of cleaning on Sunday and laundry yesterday), it’s definitely not in pain.\u00a0 So I think I can partake!\u00a0 While I’d like to be celebrating outside, it’s about 11ty billion degrees outside (even at 9am, it was 81 degrees and felt like 85), and softer surfaces are better for my back anyway. I would skip it and run when I feel 100%, but I realized I have not yet celebrated this day since I started running.\u00a0 So even if it’s a short, slow, run, I will persevere.<\/p>\n
Other than that, I kinda ate like crap all Memorial Day weekend (zero meals at home), s0 the scale is quite inflated, but I know it’s all salt and the booze.\u00a0 It will come back off.\u00a0 I need to be good for a little while.\u00a0 I’ve had two extra days off work (I need to take 15 days by the end of the year, and don’t think that taking off the entire month of December is an option), and that’s meant fending for myself for breakfast and lunch at home.\u00a0 I’m finding that I would eat lots of small meals and very little meat – but it’s probably out of convenience, not what actually makes me happy.\u00a0 For example, today I’ve had greek yogurt w\/oats (10am) and tea, apple w\/peanut butter (noon), a sprouted grain english muffin, cream cheese, and turkey sausage (3pm), carrots and hummus (4pm), and later I will have my first full real meal of sketti, homemade meat sauce, w\/spinach and broccoli.\u00a0 Sounds like a lot of food from my calorie counting days, but now it’s just a lot of good clean eatin’.<\/p>\n
The exceptions this week: tomorrow – we have a lunch date at catfish parlour (fried catfish).\u00a0 Sure they have grilled, but uh, gross, and it’s drenched in butter anyway.\u00a0 So I’m just going to get a small.\u00a0 Also that night – game dev beer night.\u00a0 Going to eat a healthy dinner at home and try to not go completely overboard.\u00a0 Saturday night – dinner and drinks downtown at a gourmet hot dog place.\u00a0 Again, going to indulge in a dog but stay away from a bunch of sides and\/or sugary drinks.<\/p>\n
Training-wise, I pretty much hit all my goals last week – 2 arm workouts, 2 ab workouts, 1 leg workout, 3 runs, 2 swims, 2 bikes (1 bike and run brick outside).\u00a0 This week, however, my back (as I said above) is kinda buggin’, so I’ve only done 1 swim, 1 ab, and after tonight, I’ll rack up 1 run and another arms.\u00a0 I don’t think I’m going to be able to do as much this week.\u00a0 I’m a little frustrated with the lack of quality training, but I just have to remember that I’m not superwoman.\u00a0 This body is not immune to injury.\u00a0 Things will get better even if they are frustrating right now.<\/p>\n
I need to also accept that continuing to search for PRs I was setting 20 lbs ago when I did lots of strength training might be causing some of these problems.\u00a0 I can get back there (and kick those times in the ass), I just need to GET BACK THERE.\u00a0 Working on it.\u00a0 The strength training is a no brainer, I’m on it (though I have to avoid SOME of it this week due to owies).\u00a0 The eating is more complicated but again, working on it.\u00a0 Besides those exceptions listed above, it’s good and clean home food.\u00a0 Hopefully that makes my body, and the scale, happy.<\/p>\n
Here is where I’d like to get back to:<\/p>\n
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Around 155 lbs, nice visible muscles in my arms and legs, and training outside like a badass all the time.\u00a0 I’ve totally progressed in some areas, but regressed in some that I’m not willing to give up.<\/p>\n
Goals for the next three weeks:<\/p>\n
-At least one bike and one run outside per week (I know I will get at least 2 open water swims in before the tri so I’m not worried)<\/p>\n
-Eating no more than 4 meals out per week, and not using those as an excuse to eat like an asshole.\u00a0 Home food can be consumed in as much quantities as I want, out food needs to be portion controlled and regulated, just like before.<\/p>\n
-2 arm, 2 ab, 1 leg strength session per week<\/p>\n
-3 runs, 2 bikes, 2 swims per week (but minding my back, I will shrink\/stretch these as needed, but will have at the very least 7-30 min segments of cardio).<\/p>\n
3 weeks fr0m now, let’s see where I’m at.\u00a0 Low weight from last week was 166.2.\u00a0 I’d like to see under 165.\u00a0 I think I can do it.<\/p>\n
I’m really thinking that my race goals for the summer are going to change for the less.\u00a0 I will do the tri in 2.5 weeks, and then… I’m thinking really just work on the strength and short paces over the summer.\u00a0 I’ll do a race in Aug\/Sept in Portland, I want to do another tri in Sept\/Oct (and this will be my “A” race), and I’d sure love to do it right around my goal weight.. and see what happens from there.<\/p>\n
I may need to throw SOMETHING in there or I’ll get bored, but it doesn’t need to be every weekend.<\/p>\n