{"id":3239,"date":"2012-08-13T00:37:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2012-08-13T00:37:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:37:52","slug":"emerging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/13\/emerging\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notes on my very very very very weird and unnormal week:<\/p>\n

1. I crashed and burned hard last week, and took an unthinkable 2 back to back rest days (MON + TUES) and put in very short workouts the rest of the week (I did get almost 3 hours on Sat but at this point in training, that’s not much). \u00a0I wish I could have seen it coming, but hindsight being 20\/20 I really should have done my recovery week last week before the race and gone out hard this week on the trainer. \u00a0I’ve learned a lot about stepback weeks – aka – I need to plan them. \u00a0I’ll go out at about 80% next week (I decided to cut a few run miles and actually try to enjoy my half marathon on Sunday instead of using it for back to back double digits again. \u00a0I have some times in my head but we’ll see how much the hills eat me. \u00a0It certainly will be nice to run in the upper 60s instead of the upper 80s!<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0You could start a tumblr from my Jack’s Generic Tri official race photos<\/a> called quixisnotimpressed.tumblr.com. \u00a0I had some really, really bad ‘tude.<\/p>\n

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It’s one thing to train through a C race, but it’s another to crash and burn into a race on your highest mileage week EVER. \u00a0Oh yeah, and it’s about 10000 billion degrees outside. \u00a0And you got almost ZERO rest before it (bad, bad, bad).<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0I took a break from social media (twitter, facebook, only getting on daily mile to log workouts) and oddly enough, the world got on without me, and I didn’t miss it that much, and I felt much more….relaxed. \u00a0It was nice to be more in the moment with my hectic days. \u00a0I think I’m going to continue to stay off it, for the most part, unless I have time to kill. \u00a0I also am going to look into pruning my feeds – I follow a lot of fluff on twitter that I just don’t care about. \u00a0I care more about my free time and mental health than if someone will get upset about me unfollowing them so I will be doing that sometime soon. \u00a0Hint: if you read and comment here, or I actually interact with you on twitter, you’re safe. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Related to the crashing and burning – I have not yet taken a day of PTO this year before Monday, and that was only justified by a trip to the ER (don’t really want to go into it, it wasn’t for me, everyone is fine). \u00a0That day off made it very clear to me that I had been not very good at my job the last few weeks due to exhaustion, and since I don’t actually get sick, I need to realize that my sick time needs to be used for exhaustion because I need to function at closer to 100% than I have been some days.<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Holy crap you guys – I lost weight this week. \u00a0So I’ve held steady at about 178-179 for quite a while now. \u00a0Last week, I saw 177, which I figured was a product of increased training. \u00a0I just followed my appetite and food wants this week and didn’t try to restrict food since I wasn’t training crazy-like and got on the scale Saturday after my workout (but also after chugging 100+ oz water, a milk, and eating breakfast and a decent amount on the bike) and I was 175! \u00a0Lowest this year! \u00a0Apparently rest did me good.<\/p>\n

Breathe in, breathe out. \u00a0Going to keep this short and sweet in the spirit of relaxing this week and enjoy the rest of my Sunday.<\/p>\n

Last week:<\/strong>
\nMONDAY: off
\nTUESDAY: 30 min swim, 30 min weights PM<\/del> off
\nWEDNESDAY: 30 mins trainer (10.23 miles) + weights
\nTHURSDAY: 3.25 mile run (32:19)
\nFRIDAY: weights
\nSATURDAY: 6 mile run (1:08), 25 mile trainer (1:30)
\nSUNDAY: off<\/del> 45 min swim (1650m)<\/p>\n

Next week:<\/strong>
\nMONDAY: weights
\nTUESDAY: 7-10 mile run
\nWEDNESDAY: 35 mile trainer + weights
\nTHURSDAY: 4 mile run + weights
\nFRIDAY: off
\nSATURDAY: 15 mile cycle
\nSUNDAY: Race!!! 13 mile run (+2 warmup) = 15 miles<\/p>\n

Question of the week: how do you relax? \u00a0Where is your happy place? \u00a0Any social media tips to have it not eat your life besides abstaining from it?<\/p>\n

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