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<\/p>\nI really don’t have all that much to say, but going to do this for completionist’s sake to have a weekly report (EDIT: ok, fine, more to say than I thought).<\/p>\n
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Food:<\/p>\n
I stopped tracking around Thursday at lunch because, honestly, carbing up for a longer endurance race is something you need to do, but doesn’t look pretty on the diet quality score and the calories.\u00a0 In retrospect it was silly not to track since it’s just a number, a metric, but the last thing I wanted to do was restrict calories too much the days before and be underfueled.\u00a0 It was a good thing too, as I felt like my tank was topped off, I had zero stomach issues, and I even forgot my nutrition on the run and did just fine with a few sips of powerade at every other aide station.<\/p>\n
My weight ranged between 176.8 and 180.0.\u00a0 It was the week where I typically don’t make any weight progress (thx u hormones), so that was expected.<\/p>\n
What might be more interesting is to note what I ate the last few days before the race because it was NOT normal:<\/p>\n
Thursday:<\/p>\n
Friday:<\/p>\n
Saturday:<\/p>\n
Race Day:<\/p>\n
I was pretty hungry the next day (in a perfect world, I would have skipped the champers and beer and refueled with chicken breast and veggies but… well… y’know), and ate a few hundred more calories than normal but all was right with the world Tuesday.<\/p>\n
I felt much better with the heavy carb\/less fat meal the day before, and doing a little extra white carbage the few days before I think helped my tank feel full without a whole bunch of fuel the day of either before or during.\u00a0 I mean, it was only a 3 hour race so it’s not really indicative of what will work for a 70.3, but it’s the best data I have before BSLT so you better believe I’ll be finding a place to get a damn club sandwich on sourdough bread. \ud83d\ude42 Going to go back to the normal steak\/taters\/veggies next week though and see if there’s a difference.<\/p>\n
The next few weeks I’m trying to be on the straight and narrow – I would really like to roll into June 30th as light as I can (within reason of course).<\/p>\n
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Training:<\/p>\n
This was a week of just trying to prepare to race a distance I, in all rights, was not ready to race being cleared from injury just 12 days before.<\/p>\n
Weights: I’ve just stopped weights work, minus my chiro sanctioned PT, and I’ll pick it back up in July after the race.\u00a0 Joe Friel says that during the thick of tri-season, you may or may not find weights helpful, and while I am definitely someone who usually finds weights helpful, I need to make sure that I pick my knee stress wisely and I really need to use all available time making my comeback.\u00a0 One odd tidbit – my chiro said that women should never ever do squats without a smith machine with significant weight.\u00a0 Apparently we have too much boobs and butt to actually be able to balance the bar correctly.\u00a0 So I shouldn’t feel too much like a wuss that I’ve only squatted a) with like less than 40 lbs in Group power class or b) on the machine.\u00a0 It was science!\u00a0 Or anatomy, or whatever.<\/p>\n
Swimming:<\/p>\n
I’m cutting down pool swimming time this month as a) I’m in really great shape here b) I focused on this in May and c) more time for biking and swimming.\u00a0 I am going to try to make it to the Lake to swim at least 3 times this month and hit up the pool 1-2 times a week as well (after this week – the pool and I are on a break).\u00a0 However, last week, for which this recap is being written – I actually swam a lot – 4 times (3 times during the week and at the race).\u00a0 I’m pretty happy with where I’m at pool-wise.\u00a0 This month, my gains need to be in open water, and sacrificing pool time for long bike\/run sessions.<\/p>\n
Bike:<\/p>\n
I didn’t do a lot here, although I did get a very hot outdoor ride in which actually did bad things for my confidence.\u00a0 I did a trainer ride on Wed that had some race effort miles in the middle which felt great, and the ride outside in the 90 degree heat at PF.\u00a0 I felt really weak and wiped after 13 miles at about 0.1 miles per hour (ok fine, 15.5, but still!).\u00a0 I couldn’t figure out how to dismount off my higher seat and had to circle back once and then at the parking lot almost fell.<\/p>\n
My biggest fear at the race, after coming back from the injury and having a lot of other shit to worry about, was that I would biff it on the way into T2.\u00a0 Someone did that on my second lap.\u00a0 Instead of wrecking, my brain finally wrapped around the flying dismount – slowest ever, but it gives me hope in like 20 years I might actually look like a veteran triathlete coming in and out of transitions.<\/p>\n
Run:<\/p>\n
I missed the 3 mile run the Saturday before the race, but I had to get on with some longer runs to ramp up, so I did 4 on Tues and 5 on Thurs.\u00a0 I can’t lie, they were both kinda rough.\u00a0 It’s been a long time since that distance was a challenge, but after a month off and weak quads, I was done at the end of each run, no flowery “I wish I could have done more” poetry at all.\u00a0 However, finishing 5 slow ass miles made me realize I was fine for the race.<\/p>\n
The suckiest thing was the combination of starting heat training and starting running again after a month off.\u00a0 I ignored my heart rate and ran what felt easy, but *foreshadowing* my heart rate is back up through the roof with an effort that was previously perceived as a super easy jog.\u00a0 I knew I would have to address that soon, but this week, running 4 and 5 miles nonstop was more important to me for race prep\/confidence than adhering to a HR plan.<\/p>\n
At the race, as I suspected, the limiter was my knee.\u00a0 I ambled along at about 10:30s which is actually better than I’ve ever done at an Olympic, but any time I tried to push much faster my knee protested, even though I knew the rest of my body could go faster.\u00a0 So, I raced that line as close as I could, and Zliten noted that I wasn’t limping through most of it, but I definitely had a weird gate at the end, so success – pushed myself as far as I could.\u00a0 I was hot and a little tired at the end but I definitely wasn’t spent, so here’s hoping that with extra healing, I’ll have a little more to give in race 2 and 3 this month.\u00a0 My only solace with BSLT’s brutally hilly course is that my knee actually tends to be happy with uphills.\u00a0 So there is that.<\/p>\n
By the days:<\/p>\n
Monday: off (volunteered for Cap Tex Tri for 5.5 hours and was WIPED and knee sore after so no training) Thoughts and Other Stuff:<\/p>\n For the next 2-3 weeks, I’m focused on longer sessions.\u00a0 I’ve been lucky to be able to pull out huge PRs at my 10 miler and my Olympic tri on very minimal miles, just a straight head on my shoulders and very strategic sessions, and race karma for volunteering.\u00a0 I don’t feel like my luck will continue with BSLT unless I do some work.\u00a0 I have proved to myself I have the speed I need to hit the paces I want there, I just need to make sure I don’t die endurance-wise.\u00a0 I think I’ve ended every dailymile post with this.\u00a0 I now think I will coin a twitter hashtag of #dontdieBSLT2013, or something.<\/p>\n And now, off to do what I do best, go to sleep right around sunset, so I can wake up early and train.<\/p>\n
\nTuesday: Run: Neighborhood Loop + Some<\/a> 4 mi 00:47, Swim: Estimated Laps<\/a> 1290 m 00:30
\nWednesday: Bike: Trainer w\/Pickups – XxX and V…<\/a> 11.47 mi 00:30, Swim: Race Effort 150s<\/a> 1350 m 00:30
\nThursday: Run: Neighborhood Loop + North Sch…<\/a> 5 mi 00:58, Bike: Pfluger Loop<\/a> 13 mi 00:50, Swim: Lake Pf<\/a> 550 m 00:15:00
\nFriday: off
\nSaturday: off (meant to swim but oops)
\nSunday: Race!\u00a0 Swim: Play Tri Olympic Swim<\/a> 1500 m 00:32, Bike: Play Tri Olympic Bike<\/a> 22 mi 01:14, Run: Play Tri Olympic Run (short)<\/a> 5.5 mi 00:58<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/macromeme.com\/cat\/fly-logic.jpg\")
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