I’m slowly easing into the new training schedule, but certainly feeling the effects of the added hours and miles that i’ve put in. Pretty much my entire body is sore, legs, arms, chest, core .. and i’m only halfway through the hardest part of the week, so I guess it could get worse.
Monday was a long 60 minute bike ride, indoors, which totally sucked, but I got through it (was fortunately able to watch the remainder of my “BBS” movie I downloaded about 6 months ago) .. I took Tuesday off as a rest day, which I ended up not sleeping in because I couldn’t sleep. It always seems to work that way.
On Wednesday I did distance repeats in the pool with focus on pull drills. I really pushed the pace for the swim, but by the time I was done I seemed to have taken in a good amount of water in my nose and ears. Usually when I’m doing 200m or 300m pulls this happens, i’m not sure if my head is staying in the right position or if my head is crooked, causing me to take in water. After that swim, I also ended up with a right eye that was all red again .. which if it was like last time this happened was due to the drop of baby shampoo I put on the inside of the lenses to keep them from fogging up when I swim. Thankfully my eye ended up being okay by the time I went to work, I guess I just need to be a little more careful when setting them up prior to swimming.
I wrapped up Wednesday evening with a 4 mile run in the cold rain .. i’m kind of getting used to the cold and rainy runs since the last several have been that was. Actually the runs aren’t so bad, i’m enjoying them the most right now out of all the training (because i’m good at it).
Today I was supposed to do a 75 minute bike ride indoors again when I got up this morning, but I’d probably go berserk if I had to sit indoors again on the bike. The forecast for today was supposed to be 50 degrees and sunny by 4pm… well, that never happened. So I switched the schedule around and went outside after work today on the bike anticipating the nice weather, well I was really wrong. Overall the weather wasn’t too bad, just very windy and only 45 degrees with no sun.. I managed to get in 23 miles anyway, which actually felt real good compared to doing it inside.
So daylights savings time starts in less than 2 weeks, I can’t wait because that means I can do evening bike rides outside after work like today instead of being inside all the time (and i don’t have to leave work early). That will be the plan until it starts to get light out early enough in the morning, because riding inside is driving me nuts. The good part about that arrangement is I can sleep in a bit (getting up before 5am everyday is getting to me).
Tomorrow is another double session .. probably a morning run of 4-5 miles, and then an after-work swim. I’m going to push 2500 meters tomorrow, which is a little longer than I usually do but I need to do it within 50 minutes (which is the challenge). I’ve got 95 minutes scheduled on the bike Saturday and I WILL get outside, there is no way i’m going to stay in. Sunday is a recovery swim along with a long run .. maybe 8 miles? We’ll see.
My aching body is reminding me that nobody ever said that this journey would be easy … on top of all the workouts, there is clean eating. I’ve pretty much cut out dairy and sugar in full for now from my diet and my carb intake is very minimal, and usually only before a workout. Lots and lots of vegetables… lots and lots of proteins.. I sometimes feel like i’m not eating enough, which I have to fine tune, I just don’t think I should be feeling hungry like I do.
Another update on the weekend …………