{"id":6032,"date":"2016-07-11T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2016-07-11T17:14:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T23:14:44","slug":"i-love-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/i-love-weekends\/","title":{"rendered":"I love weekends."},"content":{"rendered":"

It must be summer.\u00a0 At work, lately, I feel like a kid waiting for the last school bell to ring so I can go play.\u00a0 I make video games, and we’re in a period where everything is going rather smoothly (crosses fingers), so it’s not as if I’m being asked to mine salt or anything.\u00a0 There’s just something about OUTSIDE lately, even now that it’s hot as balls, that keeps calling me to go frolick.\u00a0 At least for a little while.\u00a0 Until I skate the line of heat exhaustion and need to go die back in some glorious air conditioning, rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n

\"Jul11-5\"<\/p>\n

Riding in 100 degree heat for an hour and a half with the crew definitely resulted in a large dose of AC after.<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday was a day of water.\u00a0 While there was that whole work-y thing wrapped around it, I spent my lunch doing gloriously stretchy thinky laps in the outdoor pool under the sunshine.\u00a0 There are not many finer ways to spend a lunch break.\u00a0 After work, we hit the water park, and floated the lazy river for an hour and a half, talking through stuff, solving problems, figuring stuff out.\u00a0 And… it was punctuated with a fantastic fireworks show on our last lap!\u00a0 I <3 the wah pah.<\/p>\n

Saturday, I think I learned a neat trick with salt.\u00a0 See, we got out much later than expected- it was almost 10am and hot hot hot hot hot.\u00a0 I popped a salt pill as we rolled out on the ride.\u00a0 I’ve been meaning to try it to see if it fixes my issues in the heat but for some reason, it’s just felt SO WRONG to take a big capsule full of salt when I eat so much of it already.\u00a0 The ride was scorching, my soul still died a bit rolling up and down the hills of Ronald Reagan in the hot sun, no shade, and brutal wind.<\/p>\n

\"Jul11-4\"<\/p>\n

Still smiling at mile 20 of the bike.\u00a0 Only a little bit of my soul is gone.\u00a0 This is good.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, when we started our run, something weird happened – I was not nearly as bonky as normal in the heat.\u00a0 We did have some cloud cover, but I seemed to actually start improving instead of fading as I went along and I finished the 2 miles feeling strong, not half an inch away from death as per usual.\u00a0 I’ll have to do more experiments (like our evening brick workouts), but this may be a small part of the key to not dying on the run leg of triathlons, perhaps.<\/p>\n

We’ve downloaded this silly (awesome) game called Pokemon Go.\u00a0 It’s essentially a geocaching game if you’re familiar with that, but with a popular video game theme.\u00a0 You walk around your neighborhood (or work or wherever), and it becomes your game world.\u00a0 You can visit a store (which will actually correspond to a landmark in the real world – like a park, a school, or even a store), go out looking for pokemon to catch, and when you find eggs and you have to walk to hatch them (my current one is a rare 10k distance egg, I’m half way there and hoping to hatch it today).<\/p>\n

\"Jul11-6\"<\/p>\n

We walk a lot already, but I noticed that we stepped it up yesterday both in distance and in pace since we had a purpose (hello 21k step “rest” day).\u00a0 The cool thing I noticed this week, tons of people I know who would NEVER go on a random walk are out pounding the pavement.\u00a0 We even have a neighborhood group for it, intended for sharing where we found rare pokemon and scheduling meet ups. There are tons<\/a> of<\/a> articles<\/a> about how people might actually get into shape because of this game (kinda like DDR for me so many years ago).\u00a0 It warms my heart to see people getting active and also just getting out of the house!<\/p>\n

This week is bulk trash week, and we had an old BBQ grill to get to the curb.\u00a0 While we were prepping to do that, we realized we also had 8 years of junk in our outside workshop area that we’ve never cleaned out.\u00a0 Usually, we have all the excuses on bulk trash day – it’s too hot, it’s rest day, we’re tired from training, we’ll get it out for the next one, yadda yadda.\u00a0 Yesterday, it just came together and we spent an hour cleaning out SO MUCH junk.\u00a0 The level of rat feces on my person by the end was definitely a non-zero amount.\u00a0 It may be psychological, but I am still itchy from SOMETHING this weekend.\u00a0 Itchy, but accomplished at least!<\/p>\n

\"Jul11-2\"<\/p>\n

We are the trashy neighbors.\u00a0 Not pictured: a giant rusty double barrel grill on the other side of the driveway.\u00a0 Thank goodness it was all gone this morning.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sunday was a very productive, active rest day.\u00a0 The kind you almost need another rest day from… oops!\u00a0 Good thing it’s recovery week, which means\u00a0 I should be alright.<\/p>\n

This week’s training was spot on, while it was a little crazy logistics-wise at times, I hit every session I set out to do, after rearranging due to Monday’s gym closure.\u00a0 I got in 8.5 hours of training, which is just fine for the first peak week of many.\u00a0 As I said Friday, I feel like I don’t *need need* a rest week, but I’m totally okay with having it.<\/p>\n