Quick summary so far

Some issues and problems, good and bad:

1. I'm in a work schedule right now that has me working 50-60hrs/week. On top of that I'm training 11-13hrs/week. I'm only sleeping 6.5-7.5hr/night. There are only 168 hours in a week and I've just burned up (55+12+49) about 117 of them, leaving about 50hrs left. I'm not counting the driving to and fro, eating, dog walking, and other daily duties. That doesn't leave much behind. 50 hrs sounds like a lot until I review my days and realize that I barely have time to type this up everyday. (I don't, I tend to skip a few days at a time then go back and catch up).

I'm trying to be mindful of the balance between work/home/training, and right now home is coming in last. The house isn't getting worked on (still no light in the entry hall), he's cooking dinner every night, and things start to back up pretty fast. I keep saying "wait til June" when the job thing will end, but June is a long way off.

I need more sleep, and I need to focus my efforts on time management. Like sitting here typing... ;-)

2. I'm tired beyond tired some days. And I may have found a reason (besides the training). Last week I was really in a funk, depressed and fatigued. It was the depression in particular that was bothering me. I had 2 hypotheses: 1) sometimes swimming leaves me with a headache and a bit dizzy, especially if it was a hard swim. Must be something in my technique, the swiveling of the head over and over, or 2) a nutritional deficiency. The second option was easy to test, just type in all foods into one of the online programs and see if anything is missing.

Two big shortages came up: Vitamin D and Iron. The VitD for that day was ZERO. Since I quit drinking milk, my only D came from a calcium supplement that I only took when I remembered to. My iron for that day (which was a rare day including red meat) was 51%. So although I analyzed only one day, it's a safe bet that I was falling short of those two on a regular basis. Walgreens, here I come! Now I'm taking a Ca+D suppl and a daily vitamin. Together they overdose me on D and cover the iron. It's only been 5 days or so, so too early to really measure differences. We'll see.

3. My swimming is still lagging. I can come up with every excuse to avoid the pool. It would make a long list. The IM 70.3 KS race is early June. Do I think I'm going to be ready for that? Running, yes. Biking, likely yes. Swimming, ???? Should I even sign up for this race? I need to make a concerted effort over the next month to get swimming in order before I sign up. Otherwise I'm only enlisting for a bad race, and that's the last thing I need to start the season with. I also need to get the bike outdoors, hopefully the weather will cooperate on that one.