Spill!
Not so wonderfully here. Nutrition wasn’t good at all - I only had two good days. On the upside of things, I found a couple books (Life Without Ed and a cognitive behavior therapy workbook) that I’ve been thumbing through, reading, and journaling responses to. 
that’s a big step for me — that active, countering-all-the-ED-thoughts-with-healthy-ones is scary.
Run goal was 6 times. Done, exactly six and one day not running. 52 miles. Two walks (10.2 miles total).
Bike goal was four rides with one long. Nope - two rides. None long.
Swim goal was 3-4. Nope - two, for a GRAND total of 3500 yds.
This week: 6 runs, 4 rides (one 2 hrs at least), 3 swims.
My nutrition/recovery goal is going to be to write in my journal every day.
I want to jump in and play!
So, this week I’m shooting for:
Swim: 3
Ride: 2 medium, 1 long
Run: 2
- 1 ride/run brick, and a half mary RACE (omg)!!
Race is really just part of the training plan, but I’d like to do a good job, because otherwise what’s the point? I’ve been debating all week how to pace it - I would love to go under 2:00, but running is not my forte. So I’m still trying to decide if I try to run with the 9:00 pace group and risk pushing myself too hard and end up walking, or do my own thing and go over 2:00… So the question is, do I make like the Queen and believe impossible things? 
good quote
welcome!
I sucked this past week.
3 runs, 2 rides, and the 30k hike. I missed one ride/run because I was crampy on Tuesday. Totally skipped swimming.
Food - not great. Binge no purge though I did have the urge to do so a few times.
Had a great ride Saturday though. Am really happy with that.
This week - took yesterday off with knee issue (I need to get a professional bike fit).
-3 rides
-3 runs
-2 swims ideally, 1 swim realistically
-Eat good!
stuck with most of the plan last week, except swimming. after monday night’s little fart-around in the pool with tanker, i didn’t go back. sleep just seemed more important before a duathlon!
this week’s goals:
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come in under 2hrs for my first du, which i did yesterday (1:51:21). quite happy with the first run and the bike, less happy with having to walk a bit in the 2nd run, but it was the first really hot & humid day of the year and i was FAR from the only person walking!
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nice easy ride tonight and start working some hill repeats later this week. must get stronger with climbing before muskoka long course.
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do a metric century ride this weekend.
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get back in the pool and see if i remember how to swim. would like 4 solid swims this week.
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run easy on wednesday (hopefully nickel-sized blister on right foot is gone by then), then go for a nice long run on saturday.
cheers!
-mistress k
I am going to try. I don’t have great follow through on things like this, but I am going to put it out there and see if I can follow through. Usually I don’t let people know what I want to do so I don’t have to admit when I have failed. So to start right off…
mistressk… awesome that you did the race… I chickened out at the last minute… next race I will make it. There. I admitted it!! Phew. I feel better already!!
Training:
Get out and do something every day - follow the schedule which is 3 rides (one long), 2 runs (one long), 2 swims.
Start back with a core routine - nothing too much to start but do it three times this week
Nutrition:
Eat good food. Real food. Small amounts but often. Limit snacking to planned (both type and amount) snacks.
Keep a daily record of food eaten.
Personal:
Take 30 minutes for me every day.
Read something every day. Even the headlines will do at this point.
Goals from last week:
- Do my PT exercises 5 time per week - Got 4. My parents came to town and between them and cleaning in prep for them, I just didn’t have the time.
- Make at least 1 yoga class – Fail. See excuse above.
- Minimal complaining about not be able to run due a ruptured bursa in my left knee – Did fairly well with this.
Goals for this week:
- Do my PT exercises 5 time per week
- Get in 3 4-mile incline walks on the treadmill (got clearance to finally start walking for exercise on Monday)
- don’t let me family obligations this week drive me to nutty
Last week: I had abandoned my training plan as I was helping run an outdoor camp for troubled teens…sapped a lot of my energy but got out canoeing and went for a steep-ass 3 hour hike up a mountain! Over the weekend, my hubby and I did a 3-day bike tour through the Rockies - lots of climbing and about 110 km/day.
This week: My goal is to read the general message board here on Slowtwitch less often. I have realized that reading other peoples’ “slow” training/racing times and paces make me feel like I am a waste of skin and it’s bad for my head!
As far as training goes, I am trying to get back into my training plan, but the ride over the weekend threw things off a bit. I did a 6.25 mile run today, plan to do a 2 hour ride tomorrow and a 45 minute swim as well, rest on Friday, 1.5 hour ride on Saturday, and my first race of the season (a sprint tri) on Sunday followed by either a long ride or run depending on how my legs feel afterward. I am excited for my first race in four years (eek!) and hope that I do okay.
Got in all my scheduled runs, 36 miles. Plus a 4 hour hike with MarkyV.
Double run tomorrow plus getting a new crown and a cavity filled. That second run is going to be rough.
Total run mileage goal for this week: 45
Next week, get back into the weights! Rib still aches but doesn’t interfere with range of motion so I’m going to get started again.
Mid-week update:
(slept from 8-11 last night, got the animals ready for bed, then went back to sleep…as it was 30C was waiting to run at 9, which didn’t happen)
I am not doing any mid-week rides this week. Lately when I ride, about 5 minutes in, I get a sharp pain near my IT band. Sometimes it lessens and other times it stays sharp but isn’t debilitating. I didn’t use to get this and am getting a professional bike fit next Wednesday.
I don’t think it’s my IT band as there is no pain at all when I roll it out, and if there was something wrong with my IT band…well my experience is it hurts like mad. However, doing a 30k hike last Sunday after a long ride Saturday - we were going up and down the Niagara Escarpment near Collingwood, and through some ski resorts - about 15k in my knee started to really bother me on the downs, it definitely felt like my IT band then. I was worried I was going to slow though I absolutely destroyed the guy I was hiking with on the climbs.
Anyways, my knee was bad for a few days so I’m not going to cycle until Saturday, when I will do a long ride. No knee pain on my runs.
(Which also sucks because I have made it my personal mission to destroy one of the guys we ride with everytime we go out…I KILLED him last week, and in his Garmin Connect/Facebook update he made a comment about how he had trouble keeping up with the guys. Umm, excuse me? It wasn’t just the guys you had trouble keeping up with. Anyways, I don’t want him gaining cycling fitness on me while I’m not doing bike workouts. However, if I ever get my diet on track I’ll gain free speed so I need to do that too)
the IT band is a long piece of tissue; do hip stretches and strength.
I am having a pretty good week. We had my grandfather’s 92nd birthday party last night which meant some anxiety but I handled it well. I have journaled all but Mon. and I have therapy tonight. Doing so/so with eating - better than last week that is for sure.
Training wise I have 4 rides (rode 2x in one day) (4:30), 3 swims (6800 yd), 5 runs (46.5 mi) in.