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<\/a><\/p>\nDid a practice olympic triathlon out at the lake.\u00a0 Didn’t get going until almost 1.\u00a0 These days are numbered, but I’m loving the lack of early alarms.\u00a0 The swim kind of sucked (I was way underfueled), but after eating stuff, the bike was glorious (outdoor bikes and I usually do not get along that well, so I will take it) and the run started with a whimper and ended…well, maybe not with a bang, but pretty well though it was getting steamy.\u00a0 I was happy with the effort on all 3.<\/p>\n
Finishing around 4:30 meant that we were supah starving and sat out on Baby A’s patio and shared fajitas and had a beer as my first real meal for the day which was not a bar or a gel.\u00a0 The weather dropped about 10-15 degrees during that time to which I oscillated between thanking the weather for helping me with heat training and cursing the weather for helping me with heat training.<\/p>\n
Came home, changed into PJs and loaded up netflix… just as the neighbors sent a “want to go bowling?” text.\u00a0 We rallied and ended up having to wait through a HAIL storm (which actually left hailstone on the ground all over, crazy considering it was in the 80s earlier), bowling two games, drinking beers, and then staying up hanging out until almost 4am, my late night consciousness care of a caffeinated gel put down on the run around 4pm. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n
Sunday:<\/p>\n We had a lazy, late Sunday morning wakeup.\u00a0 I cooked my protein powder waffles, sausage, and broccoli pancakes and we watched netflix for a bit.\u00a0 Zliten went to sonic and got tater tots and when they asked if he wanted family size, he said, “yeah, whatever”.\u00a0 Let me tell you, folks.\u00a0 Family size tots are no joke – too much for even two people.\u00a0 Not the healthiest lunch, but whatevs.<\/p>\n Mid-afternoon, Zliten went out to do some yardwork, so I got into my closet and drawers and spent two hours cleaning them out.\u00a0 I’ve got just a little bit left to do this weekend and I can call that one space DONE!\u00a0 I already have 3 giant garbage bags to sell\/donate.\u00a0 Win!\u00a0 Then we ran errands, to REI for gels\/nutrition, to the grocery store, and to Target for sunglasses and draino (and… all we walked out with is sunglasses and draino… we should get a medal).<\/p>\n Then, since I had groceries, I guess I had to cook. I made ranch dill potato salad (which sadly went bad because of some icky onions before I got to eat more of it), cauliflower steaks, roasted brussels, cauli-taters, and my homemade version of sirloin burger soup.\u00a0 My husband kindly fired up the grill and cooked a billion chicken breasts, polish sausage, fish, and hamburgers and we were set for the week with soups, chicken salads, chicken\/sausage w\/caulitaters and veggies, and some veggie snax.<\/p>\n We ate amazingly well, and were set up for the week, but dang, it was kind of exhausting to be so adult and productive for so many hours on a Sunday.<\/p>\n Monday:<\/p>\n We intentionally made this day pretty low key, especially when it was just busy busy busy at work.\u00a0 We rode the trainer for an hour, sharing a bag of popcorn as ride fuel (chased it with an angelic chicken salad after though, balance in all things).\u00a0 We kept it easy peasy, and Zliten actually hopped off early.\u00a0 Recovery day is for recovery.\u00a0 I followed it up with some core\/arms and stretching.\u00a0 It was one of those “work, ride, eat, sleep” days.\u00a0 I was not up for much more.<\/p>\n Tuesday:<\/p>\n This was work launch day!\u00a0 Finally, the update that we’ve been working on for the last, oh, 6 months went out for release!\u00a0 Oh happy day!<\/p>\n However, let’s not get ahead of things.\u00a0 I woke up and kinda stumbled around a bit but found myself on the bike and I actually had some legs, so I went through my speed workout (almost – cut it a little short) as planned.\u00a0 10 mins high cadence fast bike, 1 mile fast run x2.\u00a0 The bikes set a PR for me.\u00a0 The runs weren’t the fastest ever, but pretty solid at 8:32 and 8:20 off fast bikes.<\/p>\n After a quick cooldown, shower, and trip to work, I spent the day on the edge of my chair, waiting to see how everyone reacted to the update.\u00a0 I’m pleased to say that there were no fires, and nothing was bad enough that we had to go through the fire drill of putting together an emergency patch.\u00a0 That’s pretty rare and awesome, considering both our really high quality standards and how large this one was.<\/p>\n It was also incredibly convenient, because we were able to actually get out of work and make use of the free Yelp Elite tickets to see Annie.\u00a0 First, we stopped at Naanful, since I’ve had a wicked Indian food craving.\u00a0 I got my usual – Zliten and I split an appetizer of gobi manchurian (cauliflower dusted in rice flower, fried, and coated with this amazing sauce), and an appetizer of chicken tikka just for me.<\/p>\n Annie was spectacular!\u00a0 The 12th row seats for free did not suck, the cast was just ON, the sets were awesome, and I just felt like a kid again.\u00a0 Sometimes during shows, I’ll glance at my watch.\u00a0 Not because I’m not enjoying, but me sitting in a (kind of uncomfortable) seat for 2.5 hours without moving… not normal to me.\u00a0 For this one, it was like… “what, it’s over already”?<\/p>\n Though… getting home at 11pm on a “school night” definitely is not normal for me and I think I was snoring within 30 mins of the car pulling in the garage.<\/p>\n Wednesday:<\/p>\n This was a weird week for me.\u00a0 I’m usually WAY more than 2 hours into training by this point.\u00a0 Sometimes I’m closer to 4-5 hours of training by the time I get to work on Wednesday.\u00a0 Since it was a planned recovery week, I wasn’t stressing about it, but it seemed like a good day to put in some work.<\/p>\n I continued to be busy and stressed at work, and almost didn’t get out the door to swim, but Zliten dragged me.\u00a0 I swam 5x300s.\u00a0 It may not be a coincidence that I’m racing a triathlon next weekend (!!) with a 300m swim (so short and adorable\/painful).<\/p>\n I took the first as a warmup, but I always swim warmup fast in the cold pool (5:31), the second and third focusing on form (arm turnover and long and lean strokes, (5:36, 5:35), the fourth at a little slower than race effort but pushing it a little more (5:25) and the last as cooldown (5:43).\u00a0 I took a very short break in between each (15 secs or so). Keeping track of times is kind of new for me and fun.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n