{"id":7435,"date":"2017-12-07T17:51:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2020-06-17T03:37:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T09:37:38","slug":"home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you’re at mile 24 of the marathon, no matter how terrible things are, they start to get good again, because you really and truly are ALMOST THERE.<\/p>\n

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Almost there, even if it feels like we might be painting forever…<\/em><\/p>\n

When last we spoke I was at the painful point<\/a> where I hadn’t been able to cook in my kitchen or wash a dish for about 2.5 weeks.\u00a0 I was prepared for about 2.\u00a0 It was finally getting to me.\u00a0 However, between Thursday and Sunday, everything pretty much fell into place.<\/p>\n

Thursday, our counters got installed.\u00a0 While I was bummed we had to wait 24 hours to hook up plumbing, it was so nice to be able to put things on the counter.\u00a0 It sounds so minor but all of a sudden, I could actually chop up a salad in my kitchen and it was amazing.\u00a0 Then, on Friday, the in laws came and helped us with a ton of work, including hooking up the plumbing (Zliten wanted me to share that HE helped with that too).\u00a0 Friday night I loaded the dishwasher and it was the most glorious thing ever.<\/p>\n

Saturday, we were supposed to do an 8 mile run but slept until NOON instead (apparently 12 hours of sleep was necessary) and then got right to work on the kitchen. We pulled out some Ryker<\/a> tools from the attic and throughout the weekend, installed all the cabinet hardware, cabinet shelves, unpacked all the boxes, and got a under-the-sink mounted trash can and installed that.\u00a0 By Sunday, not only did our kitchen feel like a kitchen with some minor cosmetic issues, the rest of our house was no longer trashed either and we had set up the Christmas tree inside.\u00a0 Life felt back to normal, pretty much.<\/p>\n

I’m proud of how we’ve handled the remodel.\u00a0 Everyone kept telling us that things would be so crazy, and it was, kind of, but we were ready for (most) of it.\u00a0 So, one year, I actually got picked for a trial in the Jury Duty pool.\u00a0 It was something I tried to avoid and dreaded but it actually was an interesting experience that I think everyone should go through once.\u00a0 I feel like this with the kitchen.\u00a0 We kept our shit pretty calm.\u00a0 We were so lucky to have knowledgeable and helpful in laws to guide us through the work, but I think the kitchen will mean more to us when it’s done because it’s got some of our blood, sweat, and (very few) tears in it.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, our fabulous in laws put up all the backsplash and after work we painted the walls.\u00a0 I figured it wouldn’t be that much different (the old color is inside the tape around the green fairy) but going from warm spring green to cool minty green makes the kitchen look SO much better with the other colors we’ve chosen.\u00a0 We have a little more paint work to finish up (and figure out how we’re framing the fairy), the fam is going to grout and finish the backsplash, and we still need to deal with a few pieces of tile but man, we are close!!!<\/p>\n

The rest of my life is sort of limping along behind all this remodel stuff and I’m coming into my last few days of work for the year on fumes.\u00a0 I haven’t had a workout plan in weeks.\u00a0 When I do motivate and get my ass moving, I’m enjoying it and it feels great.\u00a0 However, it’s now week 7 of no schedule and somewhere between 2-4 hours of trackable activity (not counting walks and lifting heavy things during the remodel).\u00a0 I have to remember that this is how normal humans do things.\u00a0 Normal people don’t ride their bikes for 5 hours a day.<\/p>\n

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Still getting to play bikes, but the miles are few and far between.<\/em><\/p>\n

I do miss being abnormal though.\u00a0 On the weekend trips to Lowes for ONE MORE THING WE NEEDED, we’d see a billion people riding their bikes and get really sad for a moment.\u00a0 I miss that stuff.\u00a0 I just have to remember, besides the kitchen looking amaaaaaazing, these good things have happened to me with 7 weeks off:<\/p>\n

#1 – I have lost weight.\u00a0 Makes absolutely no sense, right?\u00a0 I stop training and tracking and the magic happens.\u00a0 The week I did the Livestrong ride, I was 185.7 average.\u00a0 I’m 182.8 this week and my highest weight this month has been 183.7 so far (and that’s a good sign as my weight usually stabilizes around a number – right now 182-183 – for a bit right before it swings down).\u00a0 It’s slow going but I’ve made just about as much progress on weight loss in the last 7 weeks than the 6 months prior.<\/p>\n

#2 – My body has healed.\u00a0 My heel is back to 100% now, and I currently don’t have any aches, pains, or niggles.\u00a0 All the residual fatigue of the Ironman coupled with summer and fall’s training is totally gone.\u00a0 While I’m sure I’ve lost some fitness, I’m super excited for my body to kind of be a blank slate right now so I can mold it back up into a faster, shorter course athlete for a while.<\/p>\n

Either way, training resumes December 18, nothing crazy in terms of hours, but I will be maintaining a schedule with actual prescribed workouts instead of “let’s go do something today for a while… or not…”.\u00a0 I may actually be excited enough about it that I’m working up a schedule now.<\/p>\n

I’m hesitant to be all *WOO WOO SUB 2 hour half marathon* anymore at 3M because 5 weeks is not a long time to train, but I’m interested to see what I can mold myself into in that time.\u00a0 And, of course, I’m going to show up and see what happens, because sometimes what happens is MAGIC.<\/p>\n

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