Last week was a little more active than I was previously.\u00a0 It’s ok.\u00a0 After each session I felt energized and happy, and that’s where I needed to be.<\/p>\n I did my pushups on Tuesday and actually failed the last set of Week 3 Day 1.\u00a0 I was supposed to do 17, and I kept failing trying to do #14.\u00a0 On Saturday, I decided to just try to do the descending ladder of the dozen (10, 9, 8… down to 1 – which is 55 pushups) on my toes and yup, I was finally able to do it.\u00a0 Honestly, that’s what sparked the pushup challenge in the first place, and I think rolling that full, un-modified dozen into my life twice a week will work.\u00a0 I feel so much stronger, more… sturdy.\u00a0 I like.<\/p>\n I got to SUP TWICE this week.\u00a0 I really need to figure out how to make this part of my life during season.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure it’s amazing core work which you use in, like, everything, plus its SUPER FUN.<\/p>\n I also got to snorkel twice last week and while that probably doesn’t do anything for my training but prevent the “omg I haven’t been in open water in 5 weeks ack nature” shock, it was great for the soul.<\/p>\n I ran a 5k once.\u00a0 It was hot.\u00a0 This is probably the part of training I am least looking forward to resuming but I just ripped the bandaid off yesterday with a 5k run in kitty litter when it was about 50000 degrees (ok, feels like 98, but same diff) and I didn’t die.<\/p>\n Outside BIKING omg!\u00a0 We decided that the last week of offseason was not the time to return to hardcore class, so we took our bikes outside and discovered some really cool new bike lanes just south of our neighborhood that will make for some good interval work if we want to do that outside.\u00a0 Then, we joined up with a no drop group ride and I think I leveled up a bit with my bike handling and not freaking out about riding in town (by the end – there were some terrifying sections where I straight yelled at cars but it got better).\u00a0 Neither of these rides went anywhere north of 14 mph, but that wasn’t the point.<\/p>\n Nutrition:<\/strong><\/p>\n (I took, like, no pictures last week.\u00a0 Too busy being awesome, I guess. So, you get selfies.)<\/em><\/p>\n The increase in activity sort of dragged my calories up a bit without me really noticing.\u00a0 I still fought pretty hard to keep myself around 1500-ish each day, but I lost more days than I did the week before.\u00a0 Though… I logged almost double the activity, so I suppose there’s a good reason.<\/p>\n My appetite is definitely RESET though.\u00a0 I bought two halves of a BBQ chicken breast and a big salad from whole foods.\u00a0 Two months ago, that would have been a meal where I probably would snack later.\u00a0 Last week, it was two VERY FILLING meals.\u00a0 It’s been fun to watch my hungries shrink and soon they will grow to the point where I can embarrass myself with my giant meals again during 70.3 peak training.\u00a0 Fun stuff.\u00a0 It’s cool how your body just knows what’s up if you listen to it.<\/p>\n Average calories per day: 1676.\u00a0 Average weight for the week: 178.2 (which is a full 1.1 lb loss).\u00a0 Solid.<\/p>\n In the last 2 months, I’ve lost almost 5 lbs chipping away at it almost to slow to notice without me tracking the averages.\u00a0 I’ve gone from approaching my “oh shit” weight to being pretty comfortably back to what feels NORMAL (maybe the high side of normal but definitely in the zone) the last few years.\u00a0 I’ve got a few more days here at this calorie count, and then we’ll start ramping up to stuffing my face with (carefully tracked) carbs (at the appropriate times).<\/p>\n I’ve been emailing back and forth with my nutritionist and I think I’ve got my map and my plan in place – through September at least.\u00a0 More on that next week when it really kicks off.<\/p>\n Another interesting tidbit of calorie reduction + last week of offseason – I was curious so I mathed this one out… over 15% of my calories last week were alcohol.\u00a0 I don’t eat a whole lot of junk food, so those are my splurges, but WOW.\u00a0 Now that I’m training again, this will be a much smaller part of my life.<\/p>\n Fun Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n The only responsible thing I did was clean out our freezers.\u00a0 It took us an hour.\u00a0 They’re going to come pick up our garage fridge that doesn’t really work for 50$.\u00a0 Also, now everything in my freezer inside is edible and not 4 year old ground beef or freezerburned crap.\u00a0 Ick. Yay.<\/p>\n We booked our vacation in October.\u00a0 We’re going to flippin’ Bonaire!!!\u00a0 I’m still kind of in shock we were able to do it we had a decent-but-not-sky-high budget to do a dive vacation, and I figured that we might be able to afford Florida, or mayyyybe Cozumel because I didn’t want to stay at a hole in the wall.\u00a0 Not one of the best places to go dive… but I checked it out just to see what’s what.<\/p>\n Well, I was able to book a flight to Bonaire for about the price of a domestic US ticket, and the accommodations + diving package worked out to cost about the same as the vacation we took to Oregon\/California last year.\u00a0 So, 8 days in Bonaire is fast approaching!!!\u00a0 Wheee!<\/p>\n Got my running shoe situation for at least the summer\/fall dealt with super cheap.\u00a0 Spent all the savings on one dress<\/a> I fell in love with at Athleta.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 The super genius said it was worth the price with how it fit, so I made him buy it for me because sticker shock.<\/p>\n Did I mention I got to go to the waterpark twice?\u00a0 And the lake?\u00a0 Riding my bike twice outside?\u00a0 Life is good.\u00a0 I <3 summer so hard (just not summer running).<\/p>\n Went to hang out with a bunch of friends at the bar for a birthday party – sadly, we’d been outside all day and the bar’s AC was either broken or on it’s last legs, so we made it all of 2.5 hours before we had to bail to sit on our couch directly under the AC.\u00a0 We did bring her an awesome flying pig, so I think we made up for it…<\/p>\n So, offseason shenanigans are official over for a while, and August is about to get REAL.\u00a0 I think I’m ready for it.<\/p>\n Question: what’s the most fun thing you did last week?<\/p>\n![\"July27-2\"](\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/July27-2.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n