{"id":5140,"date":"2015-07-22T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2016-04-12T18:47:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:47:25","slug":"week-4-adventures-in-something-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/week-4-adventures-in-something-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 – Never Enough Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My deep thought of the week:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is never enough time to do all the things I want to do.\u00a0 Even when I’m not booked solid with triathlon training.\u00a0 Even when I don’t have to say no to things the day before a race, or because I need to ride my bike for 2 hours instead of going to do something.\u00a0 Even when my schedule is pretty fluid and I’m prioritizing fun.<\/p>\n

To maintain a few hours a week of activity for fitness purposes and get 8 hours of sleep a night, and work, I still can’t do all the things I want to do.<\/p>\n

And it’s kind of freeing.\u00a0 When I’m back to dedicating those 10+ hours a week to swim, bike, run, weights, stretch, or whatever, I’ll know that it’s not just training making it all busy.\u00a0 It’s just life throwing an abundance of cool things my way so I can hone my decision making skills to pick what venues I’m going to grace my presence with and what’s worth my time.<\/p>\n

I was actually double or triple booked with invites three days last week.\u00a0 One day work took over and cancelled everything, but the other two – I had to make the decision and both times I went with the choice that was more of a unique experience (a concert vs drinks with friends, and a volunteer party vs friday night slides at the wah pah).\u00a0 No regrets.\u00a0 I’d probably make the opposite choices if I was exhausted from training so it was nice to make use of some of the fun offers that come my way.<\/p>\n

Tidbits from this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Our team successfully launched an update to the general public for one of my games, and an update to our test servers for another.\u00a0 This is not trivial in terms of effort and stress, and while we still have a bit to go before things calm down completely, it’s been a really epic and positive culmination of the first half of the year of effort from everyone.\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 Just a little bit more to go to finish up the summer madness!<\/p>\n

We moved what used to be our itty bitty baby tarantula (not so much any more) into her new home – a 4-serving size mac salad size container.\u00a0 She seemed a little skittish at first but after a few days and being fed a cricket, she’s been redecorating by moving all the fluff and seems happy.<\/p>\n

We finished (well, as much as we could in a short time frame) cleaning stuff out and had our yard sale.\u00a0 We made ~150$ in about 4 hours, and then gave a bunch of stuff away for free.\u00a0 We took half the clothing bags to Goodwill, we plan to take the extra bedding to the halfway house, and the rest of the clothes to Savers (for a discount coupon – so I can get MOAR things, heh).<\/p>\n

Our AC decided to leak under our flooring so it was ~150$ for the service call to fix it and then eventually we need to replace our laminate in that area.\u00a0 Bah.\u00a0 We found this late at night, and tried to sleep with the AC off so it wouldn’t leak any more, but around 4am I relented since I had been up for 2 hours sweating, and turned it on anyway.<\/p>\n

Fun Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rock Show!\u00a0 We got free tickets to the Summerland tour, which was a very 90s stadium rock show with American Hi Fi (we got there late and missed them – like, when does a rock show ever start on time?), Fuel, Everclear, and The Toadies.\u00a0 Fuel was pretty good, though it was hard to understand him mumbling on the mike even more than expected.\u00a0 Everclear was fun and high energy but the lead singer sounded like he was doing karaoke of himself.\u00a0 He must have a lot of studio tweaks to his voice.\u00a0 The Toadies stole the show – I’ve seen them live before and remember them being MEH, and this time they ROCKED.\u00a0 High energy, fun, singer sounded great… it was a fun night.<\/p>\n

Volunteer Party!\u00a0 We normally don’t go to these, but we wanted to go downtown to stop at our tri store anyway and it was right on the way.\u00a0 Or so we thought.\u00a0 When we got to the location where we thought it was, the bar had moved.\u00a0 To the southiest south part of south Austin.\u00a0 D’oh!\u00a0 We got there pretty quickly in the absence of traffic and ate delicious lemon pepper wings, chips and queso, and flautas (seriously, you think a triathlon thingee would have at least ONE vegetable) and some vodka sodas, and mingled with a few triathletes and volunteers we hadn’t met before.<\/p>\n

Waterpark!\u00a0 We got there on Sunday at noon and holy hell it was busy.\u00a0 We usually go either in the morning or the last few hours of the day, and we’ll go back to that trend because it was nutzo.\u00a0 But, we did get some slides and lazy river action and wave pool floatin’ so it wasn’t a wasted trip.\u00a0 We also got some kick ass BBQ on the way back that rocked our socks off.\u00a0 Best butt in town – yeah, probably for Pflugerville!<\/p>\n

Food Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week 2 down of trying to cut calories, 2 weeks to go.<\/p>\n

1500 calories is not so hard some days, and almost impossible others.\u00a0 It’s pretty easy during the week when I make my own food (or get selectively healthy\/filling takeout), and eat at pretty set times, but sometimes being out and about and the lack of routine on the weekend gets the best of me.<\/p>\n

1500 calories leaves very little room for error.\u00a0 If I’m eating healthy food, it’s just enough.\u00a0 If I do something like go to a party with only junk food and booze, I have to set aside a fairly decent amount of my daily intake to be able to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

1500 calories means I really have to watch my snark meter and keep my attitude in check.\u00a0 Not training so much, I don’t feel the BELLY HUNGER in the same way, but when everything that comes out of my mouth sounds bitchy, I either need to eat or sleep.<\/p>\n

1500 calories flat out does not work for having some beers around noon.\u00a0 By 6pm I was rationing the calories I had left.\u00a0 By 9pm, I was grumpy and just wanted to go to bed – I was already at 1800 calories and I felt like I could have gotten down with a whole medium pizza right then.\u00a0 So I drank some water, went to bed, read my book, and woke up the next morning feeling ok.\u00a0 I was a little cranky until I got food but I ate a very filling breakfast (footlong subway with just bread, turkey, veggies, and mustard) and life went on.<\/p>\n

1500 calories means sometimes I eat what has less calories and will make me not want to start eating my desk rather than the best quality of food (see said Subway sandwich).\u00a0 It’s a trade off I’m willing to make temporarily but once season starts I’ll be back to less “diet crap”.<\/p>\n

1500 calories seems to be working, though, at least a little.\u00a0 My average calories for last week, as the week before, was 1625.\u00a0 Funny how that worked out.\u00a0 I think that’s my metric of challenging, but not impossibly low food consumption.<\/p>\n

In turn, I had my lowest average weight since I started tracking of 179.3 – which was 0.8 less than last week and 0.1 less than my lowest of 179.4 a month ago.\u00a0 It’s really frustrating how damn hard I need to work to take down the smallest amount of weight but it’s better than not trying, I guess.\u00a0 The last two weeks have gone from 180.7 to 180.1 to 179.3 so I’m hoping that trend continues.<\/p>\n

Sweaty Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pushup Challenges for the week – done.\u00a0 Week 2 Day 2 was 10, 12, 9, 9, max (at least 13, I did 15).\u00a0 Week 2 Day 3 was 12, 13, 10, 10, max (at least 15, I did 17).\u00a0 I took my post-week 2 test on Sunday, and I failed on the 22nd pushup.<\/p>\n

In 3 weeks, I more than doubled the amount of pushups I did.\u00a0 That does not suck!\u00a0 I’m also finding it’s much easier on my body – the first week I did it I practically threw out my back, now, while I find the act of it challenging, the after effect is less – just my abs (of all places) are a little sore the day of\/after.<\/p>\n

Dozen done x2.\u00a0 Stretched once.\u00a0 I REALLY need to be better about stretching once season starts but for now I’ll call this a win for the home team.<\/p>\n

I ran two unremarkable runs for a total of about 10k.\u00a0 One was during the noon hours and during feels like 94 and full sun.\u00a0 I went 2.8 miles and that was about all I had in me at those temps.\u00a0 One more week before I really need to start braving those hot runs for longer.<\/p>\n

The pool got me with its siren song on a 91 and sunny lunch break.\u00a0 I did ~600m drills with my pool toys and 400m of IM.\u00a0 My fly still sucks eggs but it’s fun to pretend to be a swimmer.<\/p>\n

And, besides some walks, that’s it.\u00a0 I only logged about 3 hours of for reals stuff on dailymile.\u00a0 Doin’ offseason right.<\/p>\n

What’s up for the last official week of slackitude?\u00a0 Pretty much trying to do the LEAST amount of stuff that I HAVE to do and the most amount of FUN that I WANT to do.<\/p>\n

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Workout Stuff:<\/p>\n