Can't seem to get enough calories. Take a giant bag of food to work and by 3pm am seeing stars. Any suggestions for some good, healthy snacks that I can either keep at work or easily pack up in the morning. Right now I am sitting here eating pop tarts, for lack of anything better in the house.
Was just checking out the Polson triathlon's website. Pretty sweet. $5000 in prize money. Now Matt Seeley knows how to put on an attractive race. Further, all proceeds go to the pool. Love it when promoters give back to the racers and the community. If only the Bozeman race directors were receptive to comments. Someday I am going to put on a sweet triathlon in Bozeman, someday.....
Questions about effort. Did the 3 miles at half ironman pace. I ran what would be a general goal pace for a half ironman but it hurt. 3 miles in 23 minutes in the dark on icy streets, waiting for traffic. I felt pretty good about it. Is it about actually running the pace or the feel? I was thinking it was the actual pace. For IM training last year I ran harder than I actually thought I could hold and ended up pretty happy with my run. Faster than I thought I could go. So anyway, go with the fast pace? Half ironman used to be just about getting in the miles, seems to be converting to going fast and getting in the miles. I like!!!
Tuesday
Gfit after work. Did it with the co-workers. Didn't make the one with the girls because last minute Megan changed it to to 12:30 and I was infecting mice. Lisa gave me most of the workout though and I filled it in a little. One legged jumps up on a box (not very high) and back down the other side. Those were hard. Could only trust making the box for the first go around. Did some one legged squats too.
Ran for 15 minutes before.
Wednesday
SUCCESS! Had a great workout. I guess I already explained the run above. Ride was good too.
Thursday
Went to the gym at lunch and did gfit. My calves were hurting on Saturday from those jumps. Also did 20 pushups in 1 minute. Woohoo. Usually I start to cave at about 12. I think the girls who were lifting weights just to be seen at the gym were my motivator. If you are going to lift at least do it properly. Hope they don't hurt themselves.
Swim- Busted out 3900. Finished the whole workout! Usually don't finish it. Haven't swam that far in a long time. Even felt pretty chipper afterward.
Friday
Kind of an emotional day. Found out Erik's nephew's girlfriend who is only 19 had surgery and they found cancer. She had to get a hysterectomy while she was opened up. Her mom decided for her. Poor girl. Anyway, had a lot of work to do so didn't get home until around 6. Rode the rollers but called it quits after 70 minutes. I think I was starting to get tired from Wednesday and Thursday. Went to get some dinner with Erik. Sat forever to order our pizza and then the oven broke. We were both so hungry. I think this calorie hole set me up for an uneven Saturday.
Saturday
Mister had been vomiting for a couple of days. He hadn't been keeping anything down. Called the vet in the morning and took him in. Was really worried since every time something like this has happened with other cats they end up with something bad. He seems to be good though!!! Thankfully!!!! I really love that cat.
Also, had to go to the mouse facility to check on an experiment (here is me sighing because I am so sick of coming in on the weekends)Put on my new windstopper/breathable shirt and ran to check on mice. Took 10 minutes so continued my run from there. I think I run faster now than I did a few years ago because I ran all the way across town and back and still had a do a little detour to get in the time. Can't wait for trail running when you just go forever in the mountains!
Tuesday
Gfit after work. Did it with the co-workers. Didn't make the one with the girls because last minute Megan changed it to to 12:30 and I was infecting mice. Lisa gave me most of the workout though and I filled it in a little. One legged jumps up on a box (not very high) and back down the other side. Those were hard. Could only trust making the box for the first go around. Did some one legged squats too.
Ran for 15 minutes before.
Wednesday
SUCCESS! Had a great workout. I guess I already explained the run above. Ride was good too.
Thursday
Went to the gym at lunch and did gfit. My calves were hurting on Saturday from those jumps. Also did 20 pushups in 1 minute. Woohoo. Usually I start to cave at about 12. I think the girls who were lifting weights just to be seen at the gym were my motivator. If you are going to lift at least do it properly. Hope they don't hurt themselves.
Swim- Busted out 3900. Finished the whole workout! Usually don't finish it. Haven't swam that far in a long time. Even felt pretty chipper afterward.
Friday
Kind of an emotional day. Found out Erik's nephew's girlfriend who is only 19 had surgery and they found cancer. She had to get a hysterectomy while she was opened up. Her mom decided for her. Poor girl. Anyway, had a lot of work to do so didn't get home until around 6. Rode the rollers but called it quits after 70 minutes. I think I was starting to get tired from Wednesday and Thursday. Went to get some dinner with Erik. Sat forever to order our pizza and then the oven broke. We were both so hungry. I think this calorie hole set me up for an uneven Saturday.
Saturday
Mister had been vomiting for a couple of days. He hadn't been keeping anything down. Called the vet in the morning and took him in. Was really worried since every time something like this has happened with other cats they end up with something bad. He seems to be good though!!! Thankfully!!!! I really love that cat.
Also, had to go to the mouse facility to check on an experiment (here is me sighing because I am so sick of coming in on the weekends)Put on my new windstopper/breathable shirt and ran to check on mice. Took 10 minutes so continued my run from there. I think I run faster now than I did a few years ago because I ran all the way across town and back and still had a do a little detour to get in the time. Can't wait for trail running when you just go forever in the mountains!
It was close to dark when I finished the run. I think I ate something or sat around for a while and hopped on the rollers. Opted to spend the evening on the rollers and being anti-social rather than dinner at the Curry's. They kept sending me texts with pictures of the shenanigans going on. I guess they were missing me.
Sunday
Still feeling tired. Well actually, Saturday was kind of larger volume than usual. So was kind of tired. Went to Masters. Didn't get a lot of yardage in. Spent some time in the deep end vertically kicking and passing around an 8 lb medicine ball. Adding 8 lbs to my kick makes me sink. I was okay with the easier swim. Hope you don't mind. Met this woman who I have been watching teach little kids swim lessons. She is teaching them how to flip turn, butterfly etc. The City still teaches Red Cross swimming. I think kids learn the side stroke. She teaches adults. 30$ for 30 minutes. Thinks she could help me. I might do a session with her.
Needed to tackle my trails up at Moser again. Can't seem to read the map and always end going the wrong direction. This time I was determined to do the whole loop. Was totally baffled when I realized I was coming up the way I came down a few weeks ago when I thought I was lost. I have no sense of direction in the woods. Think I covered the whole loop. Next week-Alex Lussier was telling me there is groomed trail up a little higher. Want to go and explore that!! Was out for a little over two hours. Kind of want to find something a little longer. Stopped at one point to listen to the quiet. Love to be out in the mountains. Find myself truly happy.
My co-workers husband is a rep for SportHill. I'll stay late and help her if she keeps giving me sweet clothes.
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