48 run miles – 8 runs – 10 hours<\/p>\n This is weeeeeaksauce, but to be expected when I was tapering for a race, then took a zero week the week after, and then fell down while unintentionally ice dancing on a particularly painful curb.\u00a0 I’m back up to my 20 mile base this week and hope not stray from it (except, uh, upward) for a while.<\/p>\n 217 bike miles – 8 bikes – 9 hours<\/p>\n These are all trainer miles.\u00a0 I keep trying to get outside, and the weather\/plans\/other lame excuses keep derailing me.\u00a0 I suppose it was ambitious to think I’d get outdoor riding in January, but I’ll just have to keep trying to push myself out the door on the weekends.\u00a0 However, I have gotten acquainted with sufferfests<\/a>, which makes me happy in a sick, sick way.\u00a0 They have made for some quality trainer rides besides long, slow miles.\u00a0 This is about what I expected in terms of volume, and I also expect to more than double this for February.<\/p>\n 9 swim miles (14k and change meters) – 8 swims – 5.5 hours<\/p>\n Considering how low of a priority swimming is for me right now, I’m happy I got this done.\u00a0 The last week of the month, I swam FOUR times (only 3 are in this count because the last was on Feb 1) and swam for at least 1.25 miles each time!\u00a0 I really enjoy the longer swims, and have gotten Zliten on board with them too, so more of this.\u00a0 It’s really not that big of a time commitment to spend an extra 30 in the pool (since there’s all the overhead of getting into and out of the pool and hot tub and showering and drying off and stuff), so, yeah.<\/p>\n 2 weights sessions – 1.5 hours<\/p>\n Yeah.\u00a0 I have been lazy lazy on these lately (to be fair, the week before the race and the week after were planned off, but I missed quite a few other sessions).\u00a0 Twice a week, even if I have to squeeze it in at home, barring injuries (and during injuries, doing what I can).<\/p>\n Total sporty-spice hours – 26.\u00a0 Average of about 50 mins of training per day.\u00a0 I’m satisfied with that for the “low season” (not quite off season, but close-ish).<\/p>\n Races: 3M.\u00a0 I give this one about 3\/5 stars.\u00a0 I didn’t hit my time goals or make a new PR, and I’m really upset at my heel for causing me problems, but I didn’t completely blow up.<\/p>\n Body condition: 3\/5.\u00a0 I had the heel thing during the half, and the back thing from falling, and allergies plagued me a lot this month, but the first half of the month was pretty stellar.\u00a0 Hopefully I’m on the mend and February is better.<\/p>\n Mental game: 4\/5.\u00a0 I keep getting worried that I haven’t taken enough time off, but my head feels pretty sharp and as long as I keep the schedule periodized (read: rest week every so often, shifting the focus back and forth from the different sports), I think I’ll be fine through the early part of this year to kick butt and take names.\u00a0 Progress is really motivating to me, and I’m seeing a lot of it.<\/p>\n Food\/Scale\/Kitchen Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n January was a rough month for me, at the beginning. I dragged my ass getting back into eating like normal healthy me, and it took until the last week of the month where I finally threw a fit and said no sweets, no chips\/crackers\/crisps\/etc, nothing fried, and no refined grains.\u00a0 ONCE a week I am allowed a treat of some sort.\u00a0 I’ve been doing this for a week and a half now and I feel much, much better.\u00a0 I’ve actually posted a weight lower than my lowest for Jan already in February, so there’s that.<\/p>\n I did get back into batch cooking hardcore, so that’s happy.\u00a0 It’s necessary to have food at the ready when you get home from the pool at 9pm at night.<\/p>\n Scale: low weight – 176.2.\u00a0 high weight: 182.4 (I had 3 weird days after the race in the 180s that made no sense – hello race inflammation!)\u00a0 I did not track my weight super regularly, so I need to get back on that daily.<\/p>\n Calorie Counts:<\/p>\n Week 1<\/p>\n Avg Calories\/DQ: 1762\/23<\/p>\n Scale High\/Low: 180.0\/176.2<\/p>\n Week 2<\/p>\n Avg Calories\/DQ: 2080\/17<\/p>\n Scale High\/Low: 179.4\/177.4<\/p>\n Week 3<\/p>\n Avg Calories\/DQ: 2008\/17<\/p>\n Scale High\/Low: 182.4\/177.4<\/p>\n Week 4<\/p>\n Avg Calories\/DQ: 1979\/21<\/p>\n Scale High\/Low: 180.2\/176.8<\/p>\n Not my finest deficit totals, but I tracked every day (even if I didn’t want to) and each week showed a deficit total.\u00a0 Can’t sneeze at that.\u00a0 Also, definitely see that when I eat cleaner, I eat less calories (even if I feel like I’m eating a ton).\u00a0 Funny how that goes.\u00a0 Hoping to ride the wave of momentum into February and see some numbers in the low 170s on the scale.<\/p>\n Best food I made:<\/p>\n Healthier Zuppa Toscani<\/a><\/p>\n Seriously, this stuff is like crack to me at olive garden, and I think the version I made here at home was better.\u00a0 This is on the regular rotation fo sho.<\/p>\n Other things I batch cooked this month:<\/p>\n I’d give myself a 3\/5 in this arena.\u00a0\u00a0 Definitely less than that earlier in the month, but I’ve turned it around and have some momentum.<\/p>\n![\"feb10-1\"](\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/feb10-1.jpg\")
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