{"id":3573,"date":"2013-03-08T03:14:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T03:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2013-03-08T03:14:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T03:14:41","slug":"week-8-waterlogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/week-8-waterlogged\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8: Waterlogged"},"content":{"rendered":"

While stepback week was packed with stuff not-related-to-triathlon, it also gave me over 100 hours off formal training which was very needed and I am ready to get back to it this week.\u00a0 Especially because this week starts Build 2 – in which I get cleared to go faster than Zone 2 for more than 20 seconds at a time!\u00a0 This is a major WOOOHOOO!<\/p>\n

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Training:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really don’t have much to say about training this week.\u00a0 I did 2 easy runs in or close to zone 1, 2 easy trainers with no resistance, 1 easy swim, and 2 easy weights sessions.<\/p>\n

Run: My easy run pace is where my Zone 2 run pace was a month ago.\u00a0 I’d like to see that improvement every month, thanks body and universe!\u00a0 I was hoping that so much time off would totally heal my heel, but then I walked around with a 60 lb scuba set up all weekend on a rocky cliff with non-cushy scuba boots.\u00a0 So, it’s FINE but it still talks to me every once in a while.<\/p>\n

Bike: 1\/5 resistance is really just like watching a movie on a slightly uncomfortable seat.\u00a0 My average HR didn’t even reach 100 (it was 97) on Thursday’s 45 min ride.<\/p>\n

Swim: The first swim was uneventful, and we even cheesed out on the second one because I threw a little tantrum about it and decided that a 30 min easy swim was not worth the mental fortitude is was going to take to get through it.\u00a0 It was also the fifth day in a row without a day off and two of those were 3.5 hour training day and the race (so long and hard, and yes, that’s what she said), so I needed it.\u00a0 Instead we soaked in the hot tub for 20 mins and chatted with another lady.\u00a0 That’s pretty close to the level of effort I was going to put in to my workout, so it was fine.<\/p>\n

Weights: Decreasing weight by 1\/3 makes things seem very light, though two months ago these weights felt pretty freaking hulk for me to hoist up.\u00a0 I never knew that there could be such thing as a “recovery weights” session, but if there is, this was it.<\/p>\n

By the days:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday:<\/strong> Weights: 2×12… 200 lb leg press, 80 lb rows, 70 lb pulldowns. 2×20… incline situps w\/a twist w\/5 lb plate, 50 lb hammie machine. Swim: 1050m in 28 min
\nTuesday:<\/strong> Bike: 16.67 mi in 45 mins, resistance 1\/5, HR avg: 100, max: 111, Run: 3.1 miles in 36:20 HR avg: 148, max: 167
\nWednesday:<\/strong> Weights: exact same as Monday, except 105 lb squats instead of leg presses
\nThursday:<\/strong> Bike: 15.88 mi\u00a0 in 45 mins, resistance 1\/5, HR avg: 97, max: 112, Run: 3.1 in 37:20, HR avg: 145, max: 157
\nFriday:<\/strong> off
\nSaturday:<\/strong> Scuba (one hour of actual in water, probably another hour of hauling around the tanks and equipment)
\nSunday:<\/strong> Scuba (same)<\/p>\n

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Food:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really just don’t get it.\u00a0 I mean, yes, I have food that is not on the good list every ONCE IN A WHILE (and yes I went crazy-pants on my birthday with an epic meal, but it was ONE MEAL), but by and large, I eat cleaner than just about everyone I know.\u00a0 This week is an anomaly with how small the calorie burn is (since I’m at about half of the hours I train, plus at a way easier intensity), which made the deficit per day smaller, but it still shows I should be making progress.\u00a0 Perhaps I need to track the amount of weight I *SHOULD* be losing per my tracking, and see how that adds up.\u00a0 I’m not sure if that would be crazy-making, or whether it would be good for me to know that I am doing what I should.<\/p>\n

Maybe I just need to make peace with being hungry for a while.\u00a0 It’s not something I’ve been accustomed to lately, as when you’re trying to fuel workouts as completely as possible, actual HUNGER is bad, an emergency even.\u00a0 If I’m sitting at my desk hungry – how am I going to feel about it in a few hours when I’m out on a run burning more?\u00a0 If I go to bed hungry, how am I going to feel about it when I wake up and have to bike for an hour?\u00a0 When I was just a gym rat, being a little hungry and underfueled wasn’t an issue.<\/p>\n

I was just hoping by cleaning up my diet and getting back on a training regiment would help, but so far, I’ve not made significant progress.<\/p>\n

At this point I just want someone to feed me a pill that has the perfect amount of calories and nutrients in it every day, and I want to just train and work and hide away from social situations for a few months and emerge – fixed and at race weight.\u00a0 Being that this is an impossibility, I have to find a way to fix me using real food, in the real world, with all the imperfections that go along with it.<\/p>\n

In March, I’m sticking with this ~1700 calories + some on really heavily active days.\u00a0 If I’m not at least pushing 180 by the end of the month, I’ll try something else.\u00a0 Its looking like it starts with veg- and ends with -arian, and it’s one of the only things that’s actually taken weight off in the last few years (coupled with heavy training loads).<\/p>\n

I had a revelation while I was working out last week – if I feel like crying and puking and fainting and want to quit and other various dramatics while racing or working on tough intervals, that’s probably where I need to be.\u00a0 I need to get comfortable being uncomfortable to push my paces faster.\u00a0 I probably need to do that with my diet as well.\u00a0 It’s easier to recognize that in the heat of a sprint that ends, rather than in the kitchen, which doesn’t go away.<\/p>\n

I better get comfortable with it.\u00a0 I need to fix me.\u00a0 I can’t keep gaining 5 lbs a year.\u00a0 I have not gained 30 lbs of muscle, so some\/most is fat gain.\u00a0 Carrying around a 60 lb scuba tank really set reality in – it was hard to walk with that on.\u00a0 I’ve gained HALF that since 2009.\u00a0 I’m set to be carrying around a full scuba tank at this rate if I don’t fix this shit by 2017 at this rate.<\/p>\n

But how do you fix something when you can’t find, as they say, in our industry, steps to reproduce?\u00a0 I have had these periods of success with weight loss since I hit my low of 150 in April 2009:<\/p>\n