{"id":3715,"date":"2013-06-13T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2013-06-13T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T18:06:13","slug":"week-22-kryptonite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/week-22-kryptonite\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 22: Kryptonite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Training…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In case you were wondering what trainering in the dark while it’s raining out looks like, this is it.\u00a0 Quix is not impressed.<\/p>\n

It was an interesting week.\u00a0 In deciding that we needed more endurance, we ditched all the quick n easy workouts this week in attempts to cram some long runs, bikes, and bricks in the hopes of furthering the #dontdieBSLT703 cause.\u00a0 So instead of 3 swims, 3 bikes, 3 runs, and weights, we did 4 runs and 2 bikes totaling about 8.5 hours.\u00a0 All runs outside, all bikes inside (oops, stupid rain).\u00a0 We had intended to also do a 1 hour open water swim but haven’t gotten around to that one yet either.\u00a0 Bah.<\/p>\n

We’ll skip swim and weights since I skipped them this week.\u00a0 I’d be more concerned about the swim, but I swam 4 times a week for most of May, so I’ll give myself a break.<\/p>\n

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

I did two long bikes on the trainer.\u00a0 On Wednesday, my goal was two-fold – to hit 40 miles and to ride in a manner that was not just easy-peasy.\u00a0 Sunday, we were slated to ride for 2 hours outside but thunderstorms kept us inside.\u00a0 Both did the same workout, which I feel like leveled up my trainer riding this week – descending pyramid intervals.\u00a0 5 miles warmup, 5 miles “on” (riding as hard as sustainable, getting the HR up as high as possible), 5 miles “off” (easy), 4 on, 4 off, 3 on, 3 off, 2 on, 2 off, 1 on, 1 off, 1 on, 1 off, 1 on, 1 off, 2 cooldown.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, I completed this in about 1:45 on resistance 2\/5, with a HR AVG about 115.\u00a0 Sunday, I upped the resistance to 3\/5, and did this for the first 40 miles + a steady ride for 15 more at the end ending about 2:27 for a half iron minus 1 trainer ride, HR AVG about 130 (which is a HUGE victory for me, it’s really hard for me to get my heart going on the trainer).\u00a0 While I’m a little peeved that I wasn’t about to ride outside (stupid thunderstorms), I’m pretty happy with my ride and can’t complain about ~95 bike miles this week, and running off the bike both times.<\/p>\n

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

It was very, very clear that the #1 thing I need to work on for BSLT is run endurance.\u00a0 This was my kryptonite this week (but I think I’m well on my way to conquering it).\u00a0 So, on the docket this week was more mile rampage, plus a run off the bike.\u00a0 Tuesday, I went out for 7 excruciatingly slow miles (I think it took me almost 1.5 hours :P).\u00a0 Trying to keep my HR in zone 2 was a HUGE challenge after about mile 3 and in the heat.\u00a0 Heat acclimation + missing my run fitness + impeding race = not fun.\u00a0 However, I know that zone 2 is key – I am not going to do myself any good training all fast so I stuck with it.\u00a0 Thursday, I did 8.25 miles slightly less but still excruciatingly slow (1:42), with slightly less but still a lot of problems keeping my HR down.\u00a0 It’s like February’s HR frustration all over again but in 80 and humid, so a much higher degree of difficulty. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Sunday’s run was a little better.\u00a0 Running off 55 trainer miles in the noon heat, I knew there was no way I was going to stay in zone 2 unless I wanted to do a 5k brisk walk, so I just ran with Zliten.\u00a0 He’s a big jerk and much more HR and heat trained right now so he was cruising along at 11 minute miles and I was huffing, puffing, panting, growling, and hurting through them, but slowing down felt worse and it felt kinda good to push myself.\u00a0 At the end I was even in the 9s (…and my knee was fine!!!!).\u00a0 I figured my average HR would be about 200, but it was only 164 – aka – top of zone 3.\u00a0 Probably about where I’ll race as long as no other factors are in play, so good practice.\u00a0 Could I have done 10 more miles?\u00a0 It may have been the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but yeah, I could grasp doing it.<\/p>\n

Overall note: 4 sessions instead of 9 = way less workout gear to wash.\u00a0 That’s kinda nice!<\/p>\n

Monday: off
\nTuesday: Bike: 2 Neighborhood Loops<\/a> 7 mi 01:30
\nWednesday: Bike Trainer + Star Wars Episode I<\/a> 40 mi 01:43, Run: Running Day Brick<\/a> 1 mi 00:11:33
\nThursday: Run: Slow and Low, That Is The Tempo<\/a> 8.25 mi 01:42
\nFriday: off
\nSaturday: off (yard sale)
\nSunday: Bike: Trainer Intervals + Star Wars…<\/a> 55 mi 02:27, Run: Short Neighborhood Loop<\/a> 3.1 mi 00:35<\/p>\n

About 8 hours total.\u00a0 While in a perfect world there would have been some swims in there, I’m pretty happy with a nice bike\/run heavy week.<\/p>\n

Food…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I wish I could blame my fail this week on the hungries, and I suppose that was part of it, but I just flat out ate a) too much and b) crap I shouldn’t have more often than I should have.<\/p>\n

Monday, I was craving tacos like WOAH and hit up a mexican food restaurant super duper hungry, which meant chips and salsa, plus I ate all the rice and the beans and flour tortillas and if that was it, I probably wouldn’t be whining.\u00a0 Later there was some ramen as a snack, and a cookie.\u00a0 Tuesday-Thursday were heavy training days, so though I had more calories than normal, I’ll give those a pass because I don’t usually do 2 hour runs on weekdays, and it was all good food.\u00a0 Then, Friday, we went out TWICE – for lunch it was pretty good except for the green bean fries appetizer we split.<\/p>\n

Then, for dinner, we tried a new chinese buffet… I was out of my mind going out for questionable food twice in one day but a plate full of veggies sounded good and I can usually get that at these types of establishments.\u00a0 We tried a new spot and, holy crap, I’m still recovering.\u00a0 It made me shoot up about 5 lbs in weight overnight and felt awful for days.\u00a0 The food was actually fairly tasty, but must have been loaded with more MSG than I’ve ever had because holy crap… so much bloating and usually I’m just fine with salt overload.\u00a0 Then Saturday, I forgot to eat vegetables and fruit and filled up on three tortillas, some meats, some cheese, and beer.\u00a0 Sunday, I had a nice healthy lunch, but dinner involved white bread, half a bottle of wine, and corn cake.\u00a0 Weekends are my kryptonite here.<\/p>\n

However, I owned up to and tracked all my calories and yep, too much, too much.\u00a0 ~2400 all weekend and considering two of those days were days off training… yeah, not good.<\/p>\n

This week, I have pre-tracked and am ready to tell people no to the junk food and hopefully that will do nice things with how I feel, because sitting here typing this I’m sure my waist has gained about 5 inches and I’ve got a double chin with how my body feels.\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 I have to remember than one bad meal I can shake off no problem, but 3 days of mostly bad food makes for a miserable next week (or more… I’m still working on sweating it out).<\/p>\n

Monday: 17 DQ, 1896 calories
\nTuesday: 28 DQ,1674 calories
\nWednesday: 25 DQ, 1838 calories
\nThursday: 13 DQ, 1895 calories
\nFriday: 11 DQ, 2301 calories
\nSaturday: 12 DQ, 2271 calories
\nSunday: 14 DQ, 2486 calories<\/p>\n

DQ Average: 17 (yuck)<\/p>\n

Calorie Average: 2051<\/p>\n

Weight: low of 175.8, high of 181.0.\u00a0 I was thrilled with the 175.8, but this weekend erased all that progress somehow.\u00a0 Not happy about this upward trend.<\/p>\n

Other Stuff…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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BSLT Nerves:<\/p>\n

I am going between being super confident and ready to kick ass at BSLT, and terrified.\u00a0 I had convinced myself I was doing well with my training, that I would be ready, and then I read up more detailed accounts of the bike course<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m not horrible at rolling hills, but that first climb out of transition looks (and by all race report accounts) is brutal on cold legs.\u00a0 Also, they throw in a little “fuck you” climb right at the end which by many accounts smashes your legs for the run.<\/p>\n

Also, while I’m having frantic visions of being the one lone wuss walking my bike up a too-steep climb, I’m also a little terrified of those climbs the opposite way.\u00a0 What goes up, must come down.\u00a0 And being the scaredy biker I am, and reading reports of other, probably less scaredy bikers having to ride their breaks down some of the descents… ieeee.\u00a0 Total kryptonite.<\/p>\n

The swim sounds awesome (a nice spring fed lake), and while the run will be hot and with hills, but this week I proved to myself I can do that.\u00a0 I’m just scared of getting through the bike alive at this point.<\/p>\n

Early Bird:<\/p>\n

This week, deciding to do those longer sessions, we had to set much earlier alarms.\u00a0 Honestly, it wasn’t so bad!\u00a0 It’s weird, once the heat hits, I’m a lot more ok with wakeups in the dark and\/or at sunrise.\u00a0 I just can’t do it when it’s cold.\u00a0 Getting on the bike or out to run in the 6am hour wasn’t the death of me, and getting 2+ hours in before work feels good, and means I can have more rest days\/not have to do 5 hour long epic weekends\/not have to do so many individual sessions.\u00a0 For this cycle.\u00a0 For the next, it means I can ramp up the hours a little – this 70.3 is about survival and conquering an injury.\u00a0 Kerrville (and maybe Austin) will be about chasing down some serious PRs.<\/p>\n

Yard Sale:<\/p>\n

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We spent Saturday morning hawking our wares on the lawn with our next door neighbors, and my parents even brought a table.\u00a0 We got rid of Zliten’s old bike, a ton of my shoes, two terrariums, our old dvd player, a monitor, and more.\u00a0 What was left (minus a few things I wasn’t willing to part with for free) got donated.\u00a0 By doing that, we made 2 rooms much more usable, and with the 150$ we made, we’re going to buy the storage piece we need but didn’t want to spend money on for the workout room, and we can pretty much call that room good.<\/p>\n

Also, we got to test the theory that some beers before a training day wouldn’t kill us.\u00a0 As of right now, our days off training are Friday and Sunday, so we save our funning for Thursday and Saturday nights.\u00a0 We turn down a lot of plans because of it.\u00a0 However – what if we lived in a world where a reasonable amount of beers did not impact the ability to get up and train the next day?<\/p>\n

The experiment for me consisted of 6 beers (12 for Zliten, but his were weaker) over 8 hours.\u00a0 During that time, I made sure to eat reasonable amounts of food (no beer for dinner day), hydrate well with lots of water and nuun, and go to sleep very early.\u00a0 I woke up the next morning feeling just fine, and while I probably wouldn’t have wanted to head straight out the door for a run, I was plenty fine for a long bike ride (and would have also been fine to swim).\u00a0 After a nice 55 mile warm up, I had a great run.<\/p>\n

So, the moral of the story – with some care and attention, I don’t need to be a complete wallflower if plans conflict.\u00a0 However, we’ll still be alcohol free the week of races (makes the champagne better), which sucks this coming weekend, because I had to turn down about 5 different invites I actually would have liked to attend because of Lake Pflugerville the next day.\u00a0 Oh well, there will be more parties, but there is only one Pf!<\/p>\n

Question of the week: what’s your kryptonite? If I go crazy then will you still call me superman? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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