Last week I got in ZERO MILES. In 31 weeks, I have a 100 miler in Hennepin!
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The last week has been full of change up and stress. First the kids visit and custody exchange, then house pictures and loss of "my house", the bad weather and missed days at work, the low carb experiment and feeling weak and tired, and the upcoming stress of LA moving back to Michigan in just days. (this last one is the worst).
This morning (a Sunday) while in bed in my usual "I'm awake and he's not" thinking, I thought about this H100 plan. Even aside from the low carb weakness while I adapt, I'm not doing my PT or strength training. It's always a "tomorrow" thing.
So my body confidence is low. I flipping back and forth between:
1. I can do this, I can walk more in training and racing
2. I broke the last time I tried this in 2019, should I do this
I wondered in bed this morning where I was at this point in 2019 - aside from the post SCAD stress and nutrition problems -- looking... -- HOLY SHIT
In week 1 I did 2000y swim, 56 miles bike, 12 miles run (1st loop of FoPa post-SCAD!), 19 mil commute
Week 2 off for some reason
Week 3 72 miles bike and 19 miles commute
Week 4 11 miles bike and 7 miles walk and 29 miles commute
What happened, I have a note that my ribs hurt...gotta look in blog history for that. Looking....ah it was the fall with the dog, bruised hip and ribs and foot. Also notable that month I first tried rice cakes, fake butter, and oatmeal, and felt so awful by the end of the week I threw it all away. I think this was the initial days of the 2019 Nutritional Fail I had. :(
Well anyway, I was barely running then as I was recovering from the SCAD. And here now, I'm in less-good shape (strength and overall) but doing better running as in January was up to an easy 15 miles a week.
So. Getting back to the H100 2021. Random thoughts as I get them.
- While I can drop down to the 50M or 50K, I'm going for the 100. I'm planning more walking, as part of the training plan. Before I forced the running, I know I don't need to do that.
- My nutrition fell apart that year, the changes and the nutritionists and the stress just killed me. I don't know if the hip stress fracture was nutrition or over-training, but most likely it was both.
- I need to get back on the bike and the pool. I'm ready to cancel my YMCA membership over this COVID scheduling bull shit though.
- I'm having some mental hangups on running, like I can't get my mind to fully agree to it. But I feel great once I get running, so I think this is more a loss of habit problem.
- This will be a busy summer!!! LA leaves in a week or so, then my weekends are "lost". I move this summer and lose time there. We'll have the kids for four weeks, I'm afraid I'll lost training time there. But I don't plan to start my job until September (October?) so that helps.
- The low carb and MAF thing, perfect to do right now!
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