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Unintentional planking cleavage and rainbow planks coming full circle last Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n You’ll hear “it was my first week” a lot in this post.\u00a0 While I always try to take care to not overwhelm myself with changes, a new start sometimes does provide the opportunity to change your routine a little more than normal without it feeling like a hassle.<\/p>\n Last week was my first week with a workout schedule that is not just a suggested whisper.\u00a0 It’s not x-weeks until a big race, it’s not a build to anything impressive, it’s just time to start doing something more regularly than just whenever I feel like and hitting all 3 sports (and returning to lifting heavy things, even if those heavy things right now are my body).<\/p>\n Ironman has completely fubar’d my perspective, because in six weeks I’m going to ride a full century, and I’m still sticking with “not training for anything big”.\u00a0 I suppose the difference here in perspective is that I’m training to SURVIVE it, not hit a number, not to swim before or run after, and I did it plenty of times earlier this year.\u00a0 And it’s flat.<\/p>\n This weekend I rode 63 miles with about 3k of climbing, with the second half in feels like 100+ (and ended in actual 100+) temps and full sun.\u00a0 While I was complaining a LOT about the heat, there’s still a little bit of Ironman left in my legs.\u00a0 Besides the deathball trying to stomp on my lungs all day, my legs felt remarkably… fine.\u00a0 This did not feel like a long ride.\u00a0 If it would have been 70 degrees I would have been smiling the whole time and been ready to ride it all over again after.\u00a0 I spent the next day completely active and I had no real residual fatigue.\u00a0 I think I’ll be able to survive a few more hours on HHH day just fine.<\/p>\n First, though, in three weeks I’m going to race another sprint triathlon, and I do not have high hopes on having any sort of breakthrough performance, but I am open to it.\u00a0 My joke is that to podium, I need to come off the bike in 1st place and hopefully not let more than two people catch me with my sloooooow run.\u00a0 But that’s a pretty honest assessment of my fitness right now.\u00a0 When I ride with cyclists, I feel like the low side of intermediate, but apparently that’s pretty good for recreational triathletes because I typically place pretty highly in my age group on the bike leg.\u00a0 My running is no better than it was last month, it maybe even be worse if that’s possible, but my hope is that some residual endurance carries over from increased biking and helps out there.<\/p>\n That being said, here’s last week:<\/p>\n This doesn’t sound like a lot but it amounted to 9.25 hours.\u00a0 That’s plenty.<\/p>\n This week:<\/p>\n This is wayyyy less training than my brain says I should be doing but it adds up to 7 hours and that’s also plenty so we’ll just move on.<\/p>\n All the veggies.\u00a0 All of them.<\/em><\/p>\n This week was a first FULL week of trying to do all the new things:<\/p>\n Since I no longer have my own mini-fridge at work, I’m packing my lunch into coolers.\u00a0 While I was a little cranky at the extra prep time at home, I’ve been doing it while prepping dinner the night before so it hasn’t taken *that* long and it’s really convenient to not have to spend 10 minutes in the break room cutting veggies.<\/p>\n Part of that packing is a giant salad with all the veggies every day with avocado oil and vinegar dressing.\u00a0 This is AMAZING, you guys.\u00a0 I eat my lunch, whatever it is, a soup or a sandwich or something, and then for the rest of the afternoon I end up grazing on this thing.\u00a0 Previously, I’d usually end up having some produce go bad, but last week it was all gone by THURSDAY.\u00a0 This week I’m taking it a step further and making sure my salad has a full RAINBOW going on.\u00a0 My salad today had romaine and carrots and cauliflower and purple cabbage and shaved brussels sprouts and beets and tomato and cucumber and green olives and goat cheese.\u00a0 And I’m going to guess it’s about 6 cups of veggies total.<\/p>\n I’m also trying to push fruit and nuts as snacks.\u00a0 I have a serving of fruit for breakfast, and sometimes, that’s all I’d have before.\u00a0 I’m trying to keep around at least 2 other small fruits.\u00a0 I’ve been starting on them as soon as I’m done with the giant bowl of veggies.\u00a0 For some reason, I gave up nuts unintentionally, and I’ve reversed that decision.\u00a0 These are now my salty snacks at work.\u00a0 I have been working my way back with one serving per day and trying to get back to 2-3 some days.<\/p>\n With this, and my normal yogurt or smoothie for breakfast, I’ve not had to adjust my actual lunch and dinner that much.\u00a0 I’ve been attempting to stick to whole grains instead of whatever sounds the best whenever possible, but I’m not trying to be a complete crazy-person about it.<\/p>\n These all seem to flow pretty naturally.\u00a0 Somewhere further down the list is booze – bringing my intake closer to the recommendation of 7 drinks per week.\u00a0 This one is tougher.\u00a0 I can avoid cake and chips and white bread decently when I put my mind to it because it’s just food.\u00a0 It’s a momentary pleasure.\u00a0 Whiskey and wine are my stress relief.\u00a0 Not my ONLY stress relief by any means, but definitely one of them.\u00a0 If I could have only one vice, that’s it.\u00a0 I was all proud of myself that I had cut back last week and then Sunday I had a few unplanned drinks and yesterday I stayed up until FOUR AM polishing off a big bottle of wine with my husband planning and dreaming about vacations.<\/p>\n\n
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