{"id":6230,"date":"2016-09-19T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T22:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2016-10-03T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:07:04","slug":"turning-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/19\/turning-the-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, I have a big announcement… I am now not just a Certified Personal Trainer, I am also a Certified Sports Nutrition Specialist!\u00a0 Wheeee!\u00a0\u00a0 I’m doubly certifiable.\u00a0 I finished this one a lot quicker than I expected, turns out, I knew most of it already and it took me approximately 8 hours to read the 65 pages of material, watch the 12 videos, and take the test.\u00a0 I passed with an 91% (70 was passing).<\/p>\n

What does this mean?\u00a0 Well, not much.\u00a0 I learned a few new tidbits like even my protein consumption out throughout the day and take a concentrated fish oil supplement because I don’t like salmon, but most of it was not a surprise.\u00a0 But… should I open a business someday that deals with healthy living, I have a little more credibility than “I read about this stuff all the time because it’s interesting to me”.\u00a0 If I had all the time and money in the world, I’d love to go back to school to do an Registered Dietician program, but for right now, this is good enough.<\/p>\n

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Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment to talk about riding bikes?<\/em><\/p>\n

As I’ve belabored over and over here, the previous 9 weeks have been kinda hard on me.\u00a0 Coming back from a much-needed but also long offseason means I was more out of form by the end of spring than I had been in quite a while.\u00a0 I also like an idiot<\/del> chose to do this ramp up over the summer, where everything is harder already even when you ARE in shape.\u00a0 My only measuring sticks were totally unfair ones: previous years (where I’m 5 weeks behind) and my husband, who comes alive as an athlete after 4 months off in the feels-like-the-center-of-the-sun weather.<\/p>\n

Then, last week happened.\u00a0 I turned a corner.\u00a0 I had some great weekday training days.\u00a0 Monday, I rode far behind<\/del> with faster people and it felt good to push the pace.\u00a0 Tuesday, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel after that, but I crushed a endurance cycle class + 2 mile brick run (and a swim earlier in the day).\u00a0 Wednesday was recovery riding, and then Thursday, I finally got out and got that double digit mile run and oddly, it was no big deal. I even sped up the last two miles from high 11s to do race pace – around 10:30s.<\/p>\n

Saturday, we took our TT bikes out for some interval work.\u00a0 We warmed up for about 6 miles, and then did 10 reps of a 3.5 mile loop – we took the backside (about 1.35 miles, very slight uphill grade) fast, and did the rest easy.\u00a0 I hit 19.6-21.2 mph, with 179-202W normalized power.\u00a0 I peaked on my 6th interval, but my last half of them were stronger than my first (and it was getting HOT).<\/p>\n

After a stop for liquid and a cooldown 6 miles, we headed out for a brick run.\u00a0 At noon.\u00a0 In the “feels like 108”.\u00a0 It took all the mental toughness, but I got through it, and negative split it to boot (10:40, 10:20, 9:55).<\/p>\n

I missed one weights session and one swim this week, but still logged over 10 hours and a lot of it was pretty solid, confidence building training.\u00a0 This week, I have a bit of a stepback week so I can race on Sunday, but still planning 6 training hours + 3 racing.\u00a0 I’m super excited to toe the line of one of my favorite courses, and only have to do half what I normally do (since the weather isn’t expected to be much better this weekend… SO glad I’m not racing 70.3 miles).<\/p>\n

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Last week:<\/p>\n