Filling in for @Dr_Tigerchik.
Did you meet your goals for last week?
What are your goals for this week?
goals were:
7 days of coping w/o a particular unhealthy skill - 5/7, weekend was rough.
7 days of journaling 6/7
7 days of practicing the “pause” skill (helps me avoid the unhealthy skill mentioned above, when I can remember to do it) - I think I did 7 days. If not it was 6.
goals
7/7 days without the unhealthy skill - I CAN do this and I am tired of how I feel when I use the unhealthy skill. I will get my head out of my *** and get back to reporting triple digit days in a row without it.
7/7 days journaling
7/7 days practicing pause skill
I got my Mon off to a good start at least.
Thanks to everyone who chimes in on this thread.
Way to go!
Finishing up recovering from the ride and getting back to running. Looking forward to some easy miles tomorrow night and then the normal intervals through the rest of the week. Definitely adding in a lot more base work.
I met last week’s goals:
2x gym, 2x PT, 1 each bike & run, 2x swim, 100% plank compliance
Let’s be clear - none of these were deeply impressive sessions, but the goal is consistency, not greatness right now.
Same deal this week, except I’m upping my swim count to a minimum of two. I’m 40 weeks away from MiTi full distance and frankly, even 80 swims sounds like too few.
I’m also trying to build that same consistency into food tracking; as much as I hate the fact that I only get 1485 calories a day to lose weight, that’s just the way this shit works and I need to track it. Short, over-40 woman problems.
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My only goal is consistency. I can’t control anything besides that.
Ugh and I guess I’ve got about 40 weeks until my next A Tri. Need to find a bunch of swim speed
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good job @UK2ME !
I did not want to swim today, but I dragged my sorry arse to the pool and did 500 yards of “speedwork” (such as that is for me lmao) just to be able to say that I did.
God, this accountability thing sucks 
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Couple easy miles run last night in the cold. Felt really good and started to add in some base and recovering after blowing myself up on the bike.
Tonight will be harder and hopefully warmer.
@UK2ME accountability does suck
used the unhealthy skill M but didn’t yesterday!!! glad to be back on track
1/2 pause
2/2 journal
speaking of accountability, I am feeling the urge to use the unhealthy skill and am NOT going to use it. I want two days in a row of not using it. I felt so good earlier to have a day behind me after three days of using the skill and feeling icky… the relief it provides is VERY temporary.
I am in brain distraction right now as a healthy skill… oh and lets try that pause skill that I keep practicing.
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@Dr_Tigerchik We’re pulling for you.
One more run in the book, 3x10min intervals at half marathon pace. Felt good, maybe should have gone a tad faster. Tomorrow will be a mostly easy run with some short intervals.
Really looking forward to my favorite long run on Saturday. Not really on the plan, but not super far off either
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2 days in a row
2/3 week of not using the skill
3/3 journal
1/3 or 2/3 pause, not sure
A couple easy-ish runs down. Last night felt bad when I tried to put in a couple hard pulls. Pretty sure I was way under-fueled.
Today was my favorite 10 mile run, including a trip up Heartbreak Hill. On of my slowest (intentionally), but I kept it easy and enjoyed the course. Perfect bluebird conditions.
Tomorrow will be hard intervals, and I’ll probably head to the 5K course to recon the full thing
Update (mostly with bullet points):
Just finished week 5 of PT; shoulder getting better but still needs a bunch of work. I’ve been doing the home exercises sometimes (about 1 hr each time), but not with the regularity I’d like. Did a couple of rehearsals 2 weeks ago and survived, although with a very ugly bow arm. (The rehearsals lasted 2 1/2 hrs, but most of the work was with other orchestra sections, so I probably only played 45 minutes.)
I’ve been given the go-ahead to use aero position on the bike, and the PT said I could experiment with swimming practice if keeping the right arm extended.
I’ve also started strengthening my neck by doing some neck bridges, as that’s been my most painful issue when on the bike for a long time.
I’ve been doing a little running, but been overrun by my kids’ needs.
One (my difficult son) wants to go to public school and the paperwork has been pretty extensive. In addition, my 19-year-old daughter is applying for college (with guaranteed acceptance due to local community college stuff) at U of Md here, but only recently informed me that I needed to make a “counselor” recommendation immediately. (Normally done by the HS counselor, but we homeschool, so I’m it.) Since I’m not in love with writing (as you can tell by my frequency of posting) it hasn’t been easy. She’s also been bringing up the guy she seems to like that my wife can’t stand, causing my wife to start talking about moving back to Mexico (without the rest of us). Afterwards it’s difficult to get her (my wife) to calm down. But it’s getting a bit more relaxed.
Lots of cleaning up the house. (Among other things, the girl’s room floor has been discovered!)
Not too much time wasted. Too much (personal) academic planning, but not enough actually studying, but still seeing progress.
Weight still way to high. And now with all the kids’ offers of Halloween candy, a 15th birthday on Nov. 1, mine (69) on Nov. 20, Thanksgiving, a 17th birthday on Dec. 12, as well as Christmas and New Year’s, the prognosis is not good.
So what are current goals?
Finish what the kids need. Continue helping my wife. (She has a leg injury.) Continue organization. Finish up with some financial issues (as well as insurance). Don’t waste too much time.
Be better about doing home PT exercises, and do at least 700 calories of (other) exercise each day (partly for conditioning, partly for weight loss), as well as continuing the neck bridges. Use my academic plan to make my study time more effective. Resume activities (i.e., other training and violin) as allowed by the PT. Do better about not putting things off.
Patrick: Thanks for the updates.
UK2ME: Yeah, I also love the “suckiness” of this thread.
Kamarooka: Where are you?
Dr_T: You’re the inspiration for this thread. We’re ALL pulling for you. (Kamarooka: No Aussie interpretations please. )
All right. Now off to the fundraiser for the kids’ swim team at Chipotle’s…
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I need to get back on strengthening my R shoulder and L hip (mike’s PT made me think of it)
I’m ashamed of the number of times I’ve used the unhealthy coping skill lately. had another get back on track yesterday so 1 day in a row. I think I’ve journaled every day this week, pause skill way less but I did it this AM.
I have the healthy coping skills and I WILL use them.
Be gentle and kind to yourself, @Dr_Tigerchik. Shame is a very blunt instrument, with not much room for nuance. I’m waving my lobster claws in an encouraging way
@madMike100, glad you got to rehearse - and I’m certainly not going to comment on your bowing arm!! You have such a lot going on.
Y’all have reminded me that I also need to be better about doing my at-home PT; it’s pretty much the first thing to go, and it’s the most important given my inability to get through a season without damaging some part of my body.
I’m here Mike.
A deliberately not very accountable week and a half. After 3 weeks roadtripping and 4 Peaks I wanted to have a bit of “do whatevrr” time. I have managed some nice rides, runs, paddles and hikes and even a little weight training.
Body feels good and after a weekend with 6 of my 7 grandkids the mind is feeling very good.
Heading out on the mountain bike shortly.
Going forward. I think I need to start doing a lot more strides and also short hill reps. The body no longer likes long duration, high volume or high intensity. I lost a minute a km a few years back after a long no run (and no bike) period re medical interventions. I feel my running is too ploddy at the moment. Get up on the toes, lift the knees drive the body forward even if I lack the endurance (always used to be my one wood) to hold it for long.
I also need to get back to my more adventurous self. The last few years I have been a bit too conservative with both my sport but also life in general.
@Kamarooka336 form is everything…
@UK2ME lobster claws hee hee
I did one additional PT exercise today. My body is pretty weak right now so I need to add things slowly.