{"id":6086,"date":"2016-08-02T10:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2016-08-02T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:21:23","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-quickly-evaporating-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/the-mystery-of-the-quickly-evaporating-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of the quickly evaporating weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s really time for vacation, folks.\u00a0 My last one<\/a> got a little interrupted and the last half was kinda ruined with crappy work news, so I just decided that I’m going to remove facebook (and maybe twitter) from my phone during our Colorado trip.\u00a0 I don’t even want the temptation.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure I’ll have more interesting things to look at than the millionth political update about Bill Clinton’s love of balloons<\/a> while hanging out in pretty places.<\/p>\n

I’ll still have my Instagram<\/a> and Pokemon GO.\u00a0 I’m not going 1991 or anything, just wanting to keep my reality in a bubble for a while.<\/p>\n

\"Aug2-1\"<\/p>\n

Wandering to pretty places on the bike helps.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

But yes, it’s time.\u00a0 I’m feeling that sweet, sweet burnout with a huge side of wanderlust.\u00a0 I may have stayed up a little<\/del> a lot too late Sunday because I needed another weekend day.\u00a0 It couldn’t possibly have been time to start another one of these week things when I’d just barely finished my to do list around 10:30pm.\u00a0 I need another weekend day now that I’ve started training, or a little less ambition on the life front.\u00a0 One of the two.\u00a0 Sadly, I foresee neither.<\/p>\n

Dissecting the issue of the quickly evaporating weekend is tough, because it actually was a pretty perfect one from start to *almost* finish.\u00a0 Saturday morning, we woke up, and joined about 100 of our closest friends at Bicycle Sport Shop to ride 60+ miles around Austin and collect cards from every BSS store<\/a> to form a poker hand.<\/p>\n

The ride was absolutely the most fun on a bike I’ve had in a while until about mile 55 with the heat and the tireds.\u00a0 The thing I wanted to do most with every little beat of my heart is just get to the fucking finish already, but with a group, it’s about pacing, patience, and a dash of not falling off your bike into traffic.\u00a0 Considering my previous longest outdoor ride in nine months since Kerrville was 22 miles a few weeks ago (and my two longest indoor rides were 3 hours and 1.5 hours), I’m going to call finishing 64 miles in under 5 hours and feeling pretty much *just fine* for most of it a huge win.<\/p>\n

\"Aug2-2\"<\/p>\n

From our first stop at the new store, 13 miles into the day.<\/em><\/p>\n

The best part?\u00a0 I’ve been dreaming of the next time I get to take a long ride like that, and what routes I can go play bikes on for 60, 70, 100 miles.\u00a0 I also know that given another month and a half, it won’t be so deathly hot (one of our temperature readings was 112 at some point – probably a little inflated, like a car sitting in the sun reads a little hot, but not too far off from the feels like at the end…), and I can go ride my bike all day and it will be awesome.\u00a0 This is a good place to be.<\/p>\n

After the ride, we pretty much just vegged on the couch and ate all the food.\u00a0 I did laundry and stretched a little, but I forgot the rule about long workout Saturdays – they take up the whole day.\u00a0 Not due to the actual workouts, but the fact that you’re so incredibly zonked after.<\/p>\n

Then, Sunday.\u00a0 It started so promising.\u00a0 I went to bed early (for a Saturday) and my eyes just opened at 9am feeling rested.\u00a0 I finished my book, painted my toenails, plucked my brows, started with finally processing and editing the fish pictures from vacation.\u00a0 Then, once Zliten got up, it became a day of happy things for me, as we ate mongolian grill for lunch, hit the wah pah lazy river for an hour, and then rode bikes all over our hood to do errands and go terrorize some pokemans.<\/p>\n

\"May31-5\"<\/p>\n

My summer happy place.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then somehow it was 6pm.\u00a0 And I hadn’t batch cooked yet.\u00a0 And I had a LOT of batch cooking to do.\u00a0 Fuuuuuu<\/a>!\u00a0 I like cooking and all, but it took about 4 hours total of prep and cooking and cooling to make ham, cheddar, and broccoli breakfast oatmeal muffins (yes, they are as weird and amazing as they sound), a giant pan of meat and veggie lasagna, and a slightly less giant but still large pan of lightened up chicken cordon bleu rice casserole (which is also as weird and wonderful as it sounds).\u00a0 I didn’t even get to the potato leek soup but I did get to real life leekspin<\/a>, and sing the song, so it wasn’t a total loss.<\/p>\n

I was able to get my vacation photos done and uploaded during the cooking process too, but once I finished, it was 10pm, I felt like I didn’t get any time to relax, so I poured a glass of wine.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, somehow this lead to us talking work, business, our future, and watching weight loss stories on You Tube at 3am instead of sleeping like we should have.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a good lesson for me.\u00a0 I may be megamaniacal and can get through the to do list no matter what if that’s what it takes, but fucked if I’m not going to rebel after it’s done and self destruct, ruining the next day.<\/p>\n

If I go into business with myself as the boss someday, I will need to set up some strict rules with myself.\u00a0 Not about being productive, though I’m sure I’ll have to monitor that too.\u00a0 I’ll also have to keep myself from being TOO productive.\u00a0 I know there would be a huge temptation to work 24\/7 when I have the freedom, the flexibility, and my livelihood on the line solely based on how much I hustle.\u00a0 I’ll need weekly to do lists not just to be productive but to save me from myself.<\/p>\n

It’s probably a good lesson to learn about myself when the only thing I’ve sacrificed a little sleep and will have to scramble to reswizzle this week’s workouts while still keeping the rest element to the latter part of the week.\u00a0 Duly noted, subconscious.<\/p>\n

And, since you’ve made it this far into my tale of woe and enlightenment, I’ll try wrap up the details quickly and move on.<\/p>\n

Training:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Aug2-4\"<\/p>\n

If I didn’t take a bike selfie, training didn’t actually occur.\u00a0 This is my theory.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last week was week 2 of the second training block.\u00a0 Focus was mostly pushing that 10+ hours per week volume, lots of bike volume specifically, and figuring out where my edges are.\u00a0 I broke on Wednesday (my legs were not my own after two hard workouts) and had to lighten up the mid-week a little, I ditched a 4 mile run and took my weekday brick easy instead of speedy.\u00a0 However, I got a lot of butt-in-saddle time, I even rode all 3 of my bikes, and there’s plenty of time to get that run fitness back, right?<\/p>\n