Check!\u00a0 Habits are becoming habits, fancy that.<\/em><\/p>\n9.\u00a0 Find my zen in this month in small chunks.\u00a0 I do not have a weekend that I know of from now until vacation that\u2019s not booked up with at least one event, most have several.\u00a0 Find some time to relax and veg out.\u00a0 Carve out a weekday night where all we do after work is go home and relax and say fuck responsibility instead of doing stuff.\u00a0 At least do what I did on Wednesday and say \u201cthough I have things to do, I am sitting on the couch and watching TV for an hour\u201d.<\/p>\n
Did my best.\u00a0 Had some nice mellow mornings, and took some time to relax even when I had other things to do.<\/em><\/p>\n10. Take care of my appearance a bit.\u00a0 Self manicure, pedicure, and eyebrow unfluff.\u00a0 Get a haircut (or schedule a time before the cruise).\u00a0 I want about 4-6 inches cut off soon \u2013 short hair deals with being soggy from training much better than long hair.\u00a0 Penalty for not completing: I am required to book this\u00a0 (mani\/pedi\/brows) at a salon which actually terrifies me.<\/p>\n
Half check – manicure\/pedicure done.\u00a0 Brows not done.\u00a0 Hair – I tried, but they wouldn’t book an appointment on a weekend and then since I didn’t have an appointment, I decided to eat lunch and drink beer instead.\u00a0 New mandate – hair and brows must be done by cruise or I have to book some REALLY expensive spa appointments.<\/em><\/p>\n11.\u00a0 Play some damn vidjya games.\u00a0 I have Monkey Island on the PS3, I keep meaning to log in and play Everquest, I need Zliten to educate me in the ways of Bloodbowl (orcs + football) so I can decide whether I want to join the league at work, I have a tablet builder game I\u2019ve been working through\u2026<\/p>\n
Errr… I played bloodbowl once.\u00a0 So technically yes, but I could have done better.\u00a0 Bronze star.<\/em><\/p>\n12.\u00a0 Figure out this mojo thing.\u00a0 I am operating my the numbers and schedules and performing, but my spirit is lacking.\u00a0 My heart just isn\u2019t in it lately.\u00a0 Analyze the issue and take steps to fix it.<\/p>\n
Felt better this month.\u00a0 A little weight progress, permission to tempo and do some harder stuff, and starting to get excited for race season.\u00a0 I’m not sure the legs and lungs are there yet, but the fire in the belly is there and the mental game feels more on.<\/em><\/p>\n13.\u00a0 Drink more water.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to get down 3 bottles before I leave work each day, and one more at home.<\/p>\n
Meh.\u00a0 It’s not warm enough to really want to drink enough water and I’m just OVER water.\u00a0 I’m generally drinking the generally accepted 64 oz, but as I like to do sporty endeavours, I should drink more.\u00a0 Some days I do, some I don’t.<\/em><\/p>\n6 checks, 4 sortas, and 3 fails ain’t too bad.\u00a0 Let’s move on…<\/p>\n
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April is the month of being on vacation a lot.\u00a0 So, these goals will mostly be centered around not fucking up while not on normal routine:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 While not on vacation, eat like an ANGEL.\u00a0 Keep with the\u00a0 Quixitarian diet (mostly vegan, with greek yogurt, fish, and muscle milk, with some meat whenever I’m supercraving it).\u00a0 At the end of the month, I want to weight less than 182.2.\u00a0 I would love to break 180 before I go on vacation.\u00a0 Continue tracking daily weight and stats in Training Peaks, oddly enough, I have had WAY less freakouts about weight when it’s a number I measure and record daily.\u00a0 Continue to pre-track weekly, that shit helps!<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 While on vacation, I will be trying to enjoy in moderation.\u00a0 Lots of strategies in my head, some include taking a travel scale (that’s a good check if I’m really being obnoxious with my consumption), having a one-desert-per-day maximum, trying to make a one-plate-per-meal maximum, tracking diet quality, and\/or trying to figure out some way to not gain 10 lbs right before my next two months of big races (like I did last vacay).\u00a0 Let me assure you – I would not take these steps if it was an offseason trip, but I was very much in shape a month before last year’s A race, and I ruined it with a 10 day vacation of pigging out.\u00a0 I don’t want to do that again.\u00a0 This vacation is about spending time with family and scuba and hitting every beach for as many hours as I can.\u00a0 I’m going to try to make it not about stuffing my face.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 April’s plan is made – I need to focus on getting in the hours.\u00a0 A few workouts got cut short or skipped in March due to various reasons, and while it’s not to the level that I think my overall race prep suffered, we are doing the last build month.\u00a0 On vacation, I’ll be flexible with the composition and type of workouts, but I want to match the hours.\u00a0 Also, run in a different country!<\/p>\n
4. For sewing, I just want to mend everything that has holes in it on the pile of things that I want to bring on vacation.\u00a0 Amazingly enough, staying about the same size for 2-3 years means clothing gets holes in it before I can ship it back to the thrift store.<\/p>\n
5. Read some books on vacation.\u00a0 Not textbooks.\u00a0 Not triathlon books.\u00a0 Relax-y sci fi space fun books.<\/p>\n
6. Catching up: cut my hair, do my brows, and refresh mani\/pedi before vacation.\u00a0 Put the “organize the house” initiative on pause, but any steps that can be taken to finish the bedroom would rock.\u00a0 I’m going to drop the no cigs, HR train, batch cook, have a game night, etc, because they are just happening now.<\/p>\n
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7. Relax on vacation.\u00a0 Don’t come home feeling like it was 10 days of crazy gogogogo and now you’re back to life which is the same.\u00a0 Conversely, try to relax enough before vacation that you don’t feel like you just want to shut down and not do the cool things you have planned.<\/p>\n
8. Bathe the ‘guana every day possible (at least every other) and get her a humidifier.\u00a0 She’s doing great, but she is a little dehydrated because she’s not very smart and forgets she has water.<\/p>\n
9. Use these two races this month – the 10 mile running race and the second century as good (head and body) training.\u00a0 For the 10\/20, I want to dig deep.\u00a0 I want to find that place where it hurts, but my heart rate says I’m handling it physically, and just claw my way through the end and not relent.\u00a0 Also, I’d really like to sub-10 min\/mile it.\u00a0 Because I have a really stupid dumb secret goal this year that is probably unobtainable, but still fun to entertain, and this would be good progress to check how that’s going.\u00a0 Also, there is no reason that I should finish century ride #2 slower than #1 unless the weather sucks, but either way, its 60+ miles of outdoor riding, and motivation not to make an ass of myself on vacation (since it’s the day after I get back).<\/p>\n
10. Buy some fun t-shirts from the ports.\u00a0 Since I love wearing my Alaska cycle shirt, I need at least one with a diver.\u00a0 Bring back some souvenirs for my leads and something that makes noise for my sound guys.<\/p>\n
11.\u00a0 Keep a journal of vacation – even though it can be a pain to write every day, I love rereading these and it helps me remember all the fun timez had.<\/p>\n
12.\u00a0 Not buy a whole mess of random things for vacation because we might need it (I guarantee I have everything I need right now to go, and whatever I don’t have I probably don’t need).\u00a0 Exception is I’m out of travel deodorant (which will immediately go into my gym bag after) and I want a damn necklace charm to go with these gorgeous earrings I got that don’t match a fucking thing I own.<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0 Not spend a billion dollars on vacation.\u00a0 I’m sure there will be a day or two we have some drinks, but try to limit it to just a few because we can get drunk at home (way cheaper), and getting drunk with access to free food equals getting faaaaaaat quick.\u00a0 Don’t buy 20 billion pictures because the ones from the last two cruises have never been scanned and are just sitting somewhere in the office.\u00a0 Spend on experiences (scuba, transport around areas, entry fees, etc) and not on stupid stuff that doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n
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And on that note, I’m going to try to not already be on vacation…. normal weekly wrapup coming up soon!<\/p>\n\n\n
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