Easy Sunday ride

BIKE: 45 mins 13 miles. Easy. Just to stretch out legs and get some blood flow.

My triceps for whatever reason did not want my swimming today. Still tight, swollen-feeling, not as painful as last night? What'd I do?!

So I missed today's swim, and like last week I only got one swim/week in. This can't stay like this! I try to rationalize it by saying "one swim now won't make all that difference in Sept", but the training program is progressing while I'm not. What do I expect to do, go back in the plan a few weeks to catch up on the swim? No! I need to stay caught up NOW.

I also missed a run this week, but that is easier to rationalize. The IM training plan is not written for a marathon in April, and the marathon training plan doesn't know I'm biking. So I'm using some of the biking as my missed running.

One week down on the Paleo challenge. One week with no dairy! And surprisingly, I don't miss it! I used to eat a chunk of cheese "for some fat" but now I choose avocados and nuts. I looked, and the nutrient profile for avocados and nuts is much greater than that of cheese. I'm eating a whole avocado/day and a few servings of nuts. YUM!!! I thought I would miss milk in my coffee (Nope), or my nightly fruit with yogurt (not yet), or the melted cheese on a baked potato post-run (mmmm, but haven't missed it). Also one week without adding salt to food. I think that was a bad habit based on flavor, not physiological need. Good habit to break. I'm only adding some salt to recovery smoothies. So far, so great!!

Weekly numerics:
Swim: 2500 yards or 1.42 miles
Bike: 67 miles
Run: 26.5 miles
For a total of 10 hrs.

Next week: 20 miler, 2:15 ride, total of 11:55 hrs. Then a rest week!

And how does all this feel? Fantastic!