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<\/a><\/p>\nSaturday was the start of the swim challenge.\u00a0 Got to the docks, stuff stuff yank yank tug tug… whew.\u00a0 Thankfully the wetsuit still zipped, even if I felt like a dark rubber sausage.\u00a0 I jumped in the chilly-but-not-too chilly water (high 60s? 70?) and got my first wetsuit swim of the year out of the way with 25 other friends.\u00a0 It always goes like this…<\/p>\n
0-100m Holy fuck cold cold cold warm up warm up pleaaaaase (while going about 1:00\/100m, aka, way too fast)<\/p>\n
100-200m Wheeze, pant, wheeze, I am so out of shape omg why body whyyyyy<\/p>\n
200m+ Oh, right, now I remember how to swim in a wetsuit… this is fine.<\/p>\n
I knocked off the 1 lap (750m) in a little over 15 minutes.\u00a0 Certainly not my best, but not my worst, and a good first day of the distance challenge.\u00a0 A bunch of people got in and did lap 2 (or more) but I was like, nope, done.\u00a0 Could I have swam another?\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 But I didn’t really want to and since offseason is about only doing activity (beyond my 10k steps) when I actually feel like it, I just hung out on the shore and ate the best breakfast half chicken salad wrap I’ve ever had (swim-gries are real, yo).<\/p>\n
Sunday was the 10 mile Austin 10\/20<\/a>.\u00a0 Our initial plan was to go easy, then we got a little race excitement going and toyed around with trying to go a little faster.\u00a0 We agreed to see what the day brought and roll with it.<\/p>\n Turns out in my heavy Hoka Kailuas, on a 750-1000 calorie deficit per day, without actually training in the last month – easy is the only pace there really is.\u00a0 The pain cave well was incredibly shallow and that’s JUST FINE with me.\u00a0 We ran the first half easy with Brian around 11’s, and then he took off for the second half, and we puttered up the (very small but totally significant at this point of my fitness) hills for a 1:52, or about 11:13\/mile finish.<\/p>\n I may have been grunting a lot at the end, though after the race I could definitely tell that it was more the shock of “wtf, I haven’t done anything like this in a while” rather than me actually being close to death.\u00a0 No deep tireds, just me being a little bit wimpy.\u00a0 But that’s perfect.\u00a0 I’m happy to keep it light and easy for a while.<\/p>\n We actually even stayed for awards and a beer and part of the concert, it was so weird.\u00a0 Normally we limp home right away after races and die on the couch.\u00a0 Instead, it was like… this is a thing I did this morning before getting on with my day rather than being completely wayyyyysted from racing hard.\u00a0 Again, I love giving it all out on a course, but it was really nice not to have it take up ALL weekend preparing and recovering.<\/p>\n The one nice thing about running 10 miles right now was having more calories to play with.\u00a0 To be at a 1k deficit, I could have about 2000 calories.\u00a0 Such luxury!\u00a0 I was able to have 3 reasonable meals AND also drinks.\u00a0 The only thing is – I can definitely tell my appetite wanted about 5 meals and drinks. \ud83d\ude1b\u00a0 Distance running makes you so crazy hungry, it’s definitely not the best way to take off weight.<\/p>\n However, being smart about making my calories satisfying when is definitely helping this #projectraceweight cause.<\/p>\n This was Friday night’s dinner – a flatout tortilla with tomato sauce, feta, turkey pepperoni, olives, onions, and green peppers.\u00a0 I added a chicken patty on the side (not pictured) with buffalo sauce and yogurt blue cheese for a little more protein.\u00a0 It was pretty filling!<\/p>\n This was Saturday night’s dinner – grilled chicken on the bbq, half in a bun as a sandwich (extra carb attempt for the race which really was too little too late, it’s clear I will not be race-racing until I quit it with the calorie debt :D), a small potato in 1\/2 tbsp olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, and parmesan for oven fries, and broccoli.\u00a0 Yum!<\/p>\n We were craving fish and chips, so we compromised and did the baked version at home instead.\u00a0 Good ol’ Gordons and Red Robin oven fries right there on the plate.\u00a0 It definitely scratched the itch for me, not quite sure about Zliten, but it was a nice filling lunch after racing that didn’t completely break the calorie bank.<\/p>\n I’m looking forward to training again to be able to have the real stuff every once in a while, but for now, the substitutions will work.\u00a0 Enough real pizza or fried fish and chips to fill me up would be a full days calories.\u00a0 I’m fully aware the fake stuff probably has chemicals and other crap that isn’t great for long term consumption (the flat-out has a BUTTLOAD of ingredients rather than flour, salt, and water like good tortillas), but less than half the calories is huge right now.<\/p>\n As for actual weight loss progress… not much yet.\u00a0 Besides the racing parts of the weekend, we had a pretty normal and mellow one.\u00a0 We puttered around and did a few errands.\u00a0 Zliten decided to bike to a few pawn shops to look for some disc golf discs to take to his parents’ house (they have an AMAZING disc golf course 5 minutes away and we want to PLAYYYY).<\/p>\n I also now am the proud owner of a new portable hammock, care of a bunch of birthday gift cards.\u00a0 It’s probably one of my favorite things right now in life.\u00a0 I haven’t had a comfortable way to sit outside and enjoy our backyard for a while, since our chair cushions got wrecked (and even then….eh… they were only comfortable when drinking because… drinking).\u00a0 It was super easy to set up, and I’m pretty sure I spent close to 6 hours in that thing over the weekend just reading and napping.<\/p>\n It did put a damper on my goals to work on my blog this weekend, but I’m pretty sure it was the best option for happiness points.\u00a0 Oddly enough, the week was a balance of really active without trying to force it (2 swims, 2 runs, 10k steps every day) and still relaxing and soul replenishing.\u00a0 Perfect.<\/p>\n What’s up this week?<\/p>\n And if I don’t get every single thing on this list done it’s ok, because that’s how we roll here with #projectspring. 3 weeks down, 13 to go!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nPartying<\/del> Camping last weekend really jacked it up early in the week, but I did finally see a 180-something weight (twice so far), so as slow as it’s going right now, it’s going.\u00a0 Zliten offered, unsolicited, that he thought my face and shoulders looked different (and he’s a straight shooter, so I don’t think he was just paying me lip service).\u00a0 This is that magic fourth week where I should hopefully see some progress if I keep it on the straight and narrow so keep my hopefully shrinking ass in your thoughts and send me lots of good mojo if you have some to spare, yeah?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n