Six months of 2025 done - July goals/check in thread

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happy to report, the Achilles did not snap :wink:
30 years since I first raced the Boulder Peak tri, in 1995.
A good swim and a fair bike ride, enjoyed those and took a sentimental farewell look at all the bits of the course I won’t be doing again.
Run was awful unfortunately, 1:12 for 10k, a big new personal record, slowest ever. Ha. HR was pegged near max for most of that, avg 160, just could not move. Achilles was aching but didn’t get worse, good enough, now for rehab.

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@deechee thx! glad u posted
@doug_in_co good news re achilles

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15/15 july

thx to all 4 continued support

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600 in the pool before work this morning. Muscle memory is a wonderful thing, just wish the lungs could keep up as well…

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wooo! @bcart1991 good job!

464 @bt this is the lilo and stitch number?
16/16 july

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Lol, Stitch’s number is 626. I mixed up your count and the date of June 26.

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I’ll get there!

465
17/17 july

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466
18/18 july

MON
468
20/20 july

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well I went mad and signed up for USAT Nationals in a couple of weeks, on the same basis as Boulder Peak - one last time, just for the nostalgia of it…
going water running all this week, insanely boring but it is the only option with a nagging achilles… usually put on a swim cap, DAP music player under there and earphones, play some death metal :wink:

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slipped yesterday and used Bad Coping Mechanism :frowning: a med really lowered inhibition

v unhappy w self but will get back on track
so 468 days in a row + 1 slip, 20/21 july

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ugh sorry…
meds - we call the effects we want the medicine, we call the effects we don’t want ‘side effects’, sometimes the meds are not entirely helpful…

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In the long run, there may be some serenity from learning that you can slip and get right back on track.

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this - one off day does not devalue 400+ days of positive progress

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@Andrewmc no it doesn’t

468 days in a row w/o unhealthy coping mechanism, 1 slip day, 1 day back on the train!
21/22 july

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468 days in a row w/o a particular unhealthy coping mechanism, 1 slip day, 2 days back on the train
22/23 july
:slight_smile:

fri
468, 1 slip, 3 days back on train
23/24 july

Mon
468, 1 slip, 4 days on train, 1 slip, 1 day back on
25/27 july
not proud of this month’s performance

wed
27/29 july

468 days in a row w/o a particular unhealthy coping skill, 1 mess up, 4 good days, 1 mess up, 3 good days!

thur
27/30 july
not a good month for me
getting back on track today