NO REGERTS<\/a> about it.<\/p>\nThen, I suffered through quite possibly one of the more miserable 10 mile runs I’ve done.\u00a0 Most of it is totally on me but not everything.\u00a0 It’s true, we stayed up drinking at the campsite until well after midnight, that’s on us.\u00a0 The people making noise until wee hours, making it hard to sleep when we did retire?\u00a0 That’s outside of our control.\u00a0 The fact that I only brought one small bottle of half strength gatorade and ate two chews (not two packages, two chews) is on me.\u00a0 The fact that the weather decided to be INSANELY humid and sunny?\u00a0 Not my fault.<\/p>\n
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Pre-run smiles.\u00a0 Post run I doubled over, hugged the AC in the car for about five minutes, and drank 3 full bottles on the way back to camp.\u00a0 By the selfie in the fourth panel there had been food and beer, so smiles returned.<\/em><\/p>\nHowever, all these things combined to make it a good mental training run.\u00a0 Zliten may beg to differ, but I dealt with all these issues with minimal whining considering the facts at hand, and made it back to the car without dying at a pace I would absolutely respect for an IM finish (11:45\/mile).<\/p>\n
It wasn’t all bad though.\u00a0 Earlier in the week I had two LOVELY bike rides, and one of the nicest lunch runs in a long while.\u00a0 Am I thrilled with under 6 hours last week?\u00a0 Not really, but I think under the circumstances, missing 1.5-2 hours of training on a rest week isn’t the end of the world, and isn’t going to be the deciding factor on how I perform on race day.<\/p>\n
\n- Runs: 10 miles in 1:57, 5.4 miles in 1 hour<\/li>\n
- Bikes: 9.8 cruiser miles in 1 hour, 17.6 miles in 1:23 (BSS recovery ride)<\/li>\n
- Swims: none (missed 1 hour lake swim)<\/li>\n
- Weights: one ‘bells and bands workout (missed the second planned one)<\/li>\n
- 5.75 hours total<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
One more two week training block and it’s taper time.\u00a0 This weekend is the last feat of strength – long day #2.\u00a0 I’m really ready to find out how this one goes.\u00a0 It’s the full distance swim (2.4 miles), full distance bike (112 miles), and hour run (\/walk if needed).\u00a0 I’m ready to get my second 100+ ride under my belt, test out race day fueling, and confirm with myself that I haven’t lost the ability to ride my bike even if it’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a more-than-half-a-workday ride.<\/p>\n
Also, the forecast right now is 82\/58 with full sun.\u00a0 The last long day just happened to fall on a nice, crisp day.\u00a0 This is more like what we can expect race day, so it will be good to be out in it.<\/p>\n
\n- Runs: 1 hour lunch run, 75 minute run, 1 hour run (long day)<\/li>\n
- Bikes: cycle class, BSS recovery ride, 112 mile TT bike Shoal Creek loops (long day)<\/li>\n
- Swim: lunch pool swim (DONE), 2.4 mile lake swim (long day)<\/li>\n
- Weights: one down already, one to go!<\/li>\n
- Total: 15.25 hours as projected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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This is from last year but all the things are kind of the same except the weather was too hot for hats and scarves.<\/em><\/p>\nGoing camping (especially party camping with a giant group of people) is an interesting choice for an IM training block.\u00a0 If I was looking for pure recovery in the sense of the word, I was barking up the wrong tree.\u00a0 Two days of drinking with a really dehydrating 2 hour run in the middle of it.\u00a0 33k steps.\u00a0 Dealing with that lovely time of the month in the woods (and the exhaustion that comes from it).<\/p>\n
However, I’ve been feeling a little bleh mentally, and I am much better now, thank you.\u00a0 My soul is refreshed.\u00a0 I spent two nights playing in the woods, sans phones and screens, and experiencing fun things.\u00a0 It’s almost as if I had a little mini-vacation.\u00a0 The best thing about camping close to home?\u00a0 We were back well before noon on Sunday, and I got to have the lovely day of napping and watching Star Trek, so it almost felt like a long weekend.<\/p>\n
Luckily, yesterday was both super restful AND also productive.\u00a0 The house is pretty well picked up and the camping stuff is put away.\u00a0 After realizing that my few green toes that still had polish on them that matched my St Patrick’s day outfit were actually left over from Christmas, I made some time to fix that and also fix my caterpillars<\/del> brows.<\/p>\nBesides one non-negotiable to do this week(getting both the cars inspected over lunch and paying registration), my goal is to eat, sleep, work, and triathlon.\u00a0 This isn’t for forever, but I really do need to mind my rest and recovery and stress levels if I want to be successful at this. I’ve been skirting the line lately and now it’s time to go back to ignoring the world for a bit. Everything else needs to go on hold.<\/p>\n
I tracked my food Mon-Thurs, and then went camping.\u00a0 Back to it today, but that also means no useful metrics.\u00a0\u00a0 Same with weighing.\u00a0 I weighed twice, and with those weights I was 0.4 lbs down (187.2), but that’s not weighing REGULARLY.\u00a0 I’m going to keep trying, and I’m happy I’ve made it this far without saying “fuck it”, but for some reason I’m subconsciously rebelling against it.\u00a0 I don’t know what to say except brains are weird.<\/p>\n
Either way, it’s clear to me that my body is not capable of losing weight during Ironman training with the attention to detail I’m willing to put into my diet and tracking it.\u00a0 That’s ok.\u00a0 It was a long shot to expect it.\u00a0 I have gained a lot of muscle, a lot of endurance, and a healthy respect for this distance of racing.\u00a0 I can work on the number on the scale (and maybe not eating cake daily) after the race.<\/p>\n
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