Sugar High – Uh oh!
This morning when I got into work, sitting on my desk was a large box, a very large box, from my mom, filled with cookies. Just saying “large” doesn’t really do the box justice – according to the post office label, it weighs nearly eight pounds! She emailed me earlier in the week and said…
Read MoreJanuary Totals
Here’s January: Swim: 25,550 yardsCycling (outdoors): 106.8 milesCycling (indoors): 11:52 (hours)Run: 57.1 milesStrength Training: 9 hours Approximate monthly total training time: 46 hours Not bad! (And that’s with taking a week off because of my flu!)
Read MoreThree days down
Again, this morning I pretty much popped right out of bed and got moving. I was tired, but I got a pretty good night’s sleep and was ready to start the day. I went to the gym and lifted for about an hour. Today was my light(er) day. I felt pretty good and feel like…
Read MoreHe keeps going
I slept much much better last night than Sunday night. I still didn’t fall asleep as quickly as I would have liked and didn’t sleep solidly through the night, but I feel like I got a pretty good night’s sleep, which I guess is enough. I woke up pretty easily when the alarm went off….
Read MoreMonday, FUNday!
After John’s warning yesterday about getting my sleep, I got into bed early (for us, anyway) and tried to get a good night’s sleep. Even though I had slept a fair amount all weekend, I was pretty tired and thought I would sleep well. Unfortunately, it was not to be. I struggled to fall asleep…
Read MoreWhen 90 minutes of training seems like an easy day…
I guess I’m getting the hang of this stuff. Granted, it was an “easy” 90 minutes, but still, it’s been a tough week+ and I’m feeling pretty proud of myself right now. I recovered pretty well from yesterday’s ride. I was tired in the afternoon and evening and made sure to not stop eating or…
Read MoreEarning my stripes
The weather people were right and wrong. It didn’t snow or rain and the wind wasn’t that bad, but there’s no way the mercury ever touched 40 today (at least not at any time before I got home from my ride at 3:30). This morning, when I got up, the temperature was in the high…
Read MoreAnd another
Well, I’m finally feeling it. Today is my eighth hard training day in a row. And I’m not sure that I’m getting a day off next week, either! Last weekend John warned me that the coming weeks were going to be tough and there wouldn’t be too many off days. I’m not complaining, but once…
Read MoreBRRRRR!!
Even though I went to bed relatively early last night, when my alarm went off this morning, I was nowhere near ready to get out of bed. That’s been happening more often these days. I assume that the increased time and intesity of my training is causing my body to want and need more sleep…
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
This morning I got up at 6AM so I could get to the pool and try to get home around the same time that Elizabeth got back from Utah. I went to bed fairly early last night, so getting up wasn’t a problem. Getting out of the house took me a little longer than I’d…
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