Between last Tuesday and today Tuesday --
I biked in Friday, ran 10 miles Saturday, biked Monday, ran and bike in today.
That's it.
My stomach was still upset last week -- the whole range with headache, fatigue, brain fog, gut pain (but no other gut symptoms), and just feeling awful. But not sick awful, more like depressed, underwater, unmotivated, cold. Yuck. Didn't help (or maybe it did) that it rained and kept me off the bike to rest. And I missed the group Thursday run too.
But I did get in 10.3 miles on Saturday in 1:44. I had a late start of 11am (can't remember why, but not because I had to be somewhere). My energy was flat but my hip hurt and my gut held up.
Just unremarkable lately. I'm supposed to mail the Golden Garmin back for exchange, guess I'll get to that here soon. I have appt with PHG next Monday for hip. And I'm thinking I need to clean up the diet to stop these episodes I'm having. A trip home shouldn't leave me down for 7-10 days. What I don't know is -- should I do an intro reset? I've come up with some fancy idea because I already have so much food at home, that being start on the April full moon on the 11th. LOL'ingly, that's also Passover, an 8-day festival celebrating rebirth and emancipation from slavery, with dietary restrictions to boot. Start the intro on the 11th? And/or just stop buying banned foods and transition over to cleaner? Is the starvation/intro step critical for me? Ugh.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
First Spring run
Tuesday RUN 5 miles in just under 50 mins, ave HR 123
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles
First day of spring yesterday, and it was 79F on my kitchen window thermometer! But I didn't stop to enjoy it much aside from a walk in Elkhart IL yesterday on my drive. Nice town, soooo tiny!
This morning cool but calm. I overdressed of course and was happy with it. I think I ate too much too, 2 yolks some carrots and some butter, but then I nom'd more steamed veg. Shoulda stopped without the extra veg.
The run energy was flat, and I'm blaming it on fatigue from being up late Sunday helping Mic and Steve then traveling most of yesterday. The flat energy, mild headache, and cravings all indicate that I just need to get caught up.
I called PHG today for an appt for the left hip. April 3rd. I didn't go with Dr M because I don't think it's an injury. But I could back track on that idea.
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles
First day of spring yesterday, and it was 79F on my kitchen window thermometer! But I didn't stop to enjoy it much aside from a walk in Elkhart IL yesterday on my drive. Nice town, soooo tiny!
This morning cool but calm. I overdressed of course and was happy with it. I think I ate too much too, 2 yolks some carrots and some butter, but then I nom'd more steamed veg. Shoulda stopped without the extra veg.
The run energy was flat, and I'm blaming it on fatigue from being up late Sunday helping Mic and Steve then traveling most of yesterday. The flat energy, mild headache, and cravings all indicate that I just need to get caught up.
I called PHG today for an appt for the left hip. April 3rd. I didn't go with Dr M because I don't think it's an injury. But I could back track on that idea.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Week summary, trip home for all the birthdays
Weds NOTHING! Icy, drove in
Thursday RUN 54 mins and 6.3 mi, no HR data
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles
Friday SWIM 48 mins and 2000y
Saturday RUN 70 mins and 7.1 miles, ave HR 132
Sunday RUN 80 mins and 8 miles, ave HR 129
Monday nothing
Another ketch-up post.
The weather finally turned more favorable on Thursday, I was able to bike in and Puppy was happy. For the run, I wore the HR strap but it slipped down my torso early and after a mile of trying to fix it I gave up. Cadence lock.
Friday was one of those almost-didn't-happens. I woke up to rain and when walking the dog there was thunder. This means the pool was probably going to be closed. So I changed my plans, dropped the dog off first then went to Target for some bday shopping. The whole time, I was looking ahead to the drive north to home, waiting for my overfilled tummy to settle, and thinking about the swim. Would I, or wouldn't I? I left Target and headed east on Chippewa....came to the Macklind intersection...turned left!...and went to the pool!! Joke of the day on the dry erase board -- something about a grape wining about not achieving grapeness, haha! My swim was a WU then 6x150 alternating hard/easy/hard and easy/hard/easy. I did the latter with the pool buoy. True to the Suit Up, Show Up, Something Will Happen I ran into SamM finishing her swim as I was starting :) The swim felt good, not sure the 'hard' was fast but it was 'harder'. And my meditation goal for the day was water. Fitting, with the rain, the swim, and then as a topper I noted that three of the pool exercise balls stacked in the rack near the deep and were arranged as a water molecule. Two red hydrogens and one yellow oxygen!
Saturday was one of those runs in which there was a stiff, cold, western wind. Meaning that if I ran up the road I'd have 22 mins of tailwind, 20-ish mins of cross wind, then 22 mins of headwind. Yuck. And my stomach was blurby from eating too much of sis's cabbage last night! So I decided to map this run to make me happy. Usually I tell myself to Suck It Up and Embrace The Suck. But this time I ran out a mile, turned back, and did a total of 3 such loops. Warm, cold, warm, cold, warm, cold, with many threatening and gassy blurps. I started in the dark but eventually the sun came up, meaning that a bad blurp could lead to an exposed....ah....GI dump? Thankfully I didn't have to do that. I was able to have my dump (a T6) after stretching. Yay.
Sunday I waited later in the morning and there was only a mild SSE wind. Part way in I got a text but ignored it. Did the full "T" to get 8 miles. Got home, saw the text was invitation to join Jess at church. HURRY!
Both runs felt great, kept them purposefully EASY. And the HR reflects it.
As for my left hip, time to call for an eval. It hurt to run, to sit, to drive, to lie down. Ugh.
NUMERICS
Swim 3600 yards
Bike commute 9.2 miles
Run 27.4 miles
Thursday RUN 54 mins and 6.3 mi, no HR data
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles
Friday SWIM 48 mins and 2000y
Saturday RUN 70 mins and 7.1 miles, ave HR 132
Sunday RUN 80 mins and 8 miles, ave HR 129
Monday nothing
Another ketch-up post.
The weather finally turned more favorable on Thursday, I was able to bike in and Puppy was happy. For the run, I wore the HR strap but it slipped down my torso early and after a mile of trying to fix it I gave up. Cadence lock.
Friday was one of those almost-didn't-happens. I woke up to rain and when walking the dog there was thunder. This means the pool was probably going to be closed. So I changed my plans, dropped the dog off first then went to Target for some bday shopping. The whole time, I was looking ahead to the drive north to home, waiting for my overfilled tummy to settle, and thinking about the swim. Would I, or wouldn't I? I left Target and headed east on Chippewa....came to the Macklind intersection...turned left!...and went to the pool!! Joke of the day on the dry erase board -- something about a grape wining about not achieving grapeness, haha! My swim was a WU then 6x150 alternating hard/easy/hard and easy/hard/easy. I did the latter with the pool buoy. True to the Suit Up, Show Up, Something Will Happen I ran into SamM finishing her swim as I was starting :) The swim felt good, not sure the 'hard' was fast but it was 'harder'. And my meditation goal for the day was water. Fitting, with the rain, the swim, and then as a topper I noted that three of the pool exercise balls stacked in the rack near the deep and were arranged as a water molecule. Two red hydrogens and one yellow oxygen!
Saturday was one of those runs in which there was a stiff, cold, western wind. Meaning that if I ran up the road I'd have 22 mins of tailwind, 20-ish mins of cross wind, then 22 mins of headwind. Yuck. And my stomach was blurby from eating too much of sis's cabbage last night! So I decided to map this run to make me happy. Usually I tell myself to Suck It Up and Embrace The Suck. But this time I ran out a mile, turned back, and did a total of 3 such loops. Warm, cold, warm, cold, warm, cold, with many threatening and gassy blurps. I started in the dark but eventually the sun came up, meaning that a bad blurp could lead to an exposed....ah....GI dump? Thankfully I didn't have to do that. I was able to have my dump (a T6) after stretching. Yay.
Sunday I waited later in the morning and there was only a mild SSE wind. Part way in I got a text but ignored it. Did the full "T" to get 8 miles. Got home, saw the text was invitation to join Jess at church. HURRY!
Both runs felt great, kept them purposefully EASY. And the HR reflects it.
As for my left hip, time to call for an eval. It hurt to run, to sit, to drive, to lie down. Ugh.
NUMERICS
Swim 3600 yards
Bike commute 9.2 miles
Run 27.4 miles
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
...the thrush that awakes at day-break...sings because it is happy...
…the
thrush that awakes at day-break with its song, does not sing because it is paid
to sing, or to please others, or to be admired or criticised. It sings because it is happy; it pours
the thrilling sounds from its throat, to relieve the overflowings of its own heart—
William Hazlitt 1818
RUN 6 miles in 60 mins, ave HR 133
No bike commute, still icy
Over the weekend I heard a quote from a Buddha podcast about how a bird that sings isn't singing to please others or make money, rather it's singing because it has a song. And in that moment I realized why I'm not excited to race yet this year. I'm too focused on the end, the finish line, the 'fortune and glory' of my races. It's an output of last year's "gotta finish the 100" feeling. I got focused on the goal, the finish, the accomplishment, and lost sight of the fact that I love to run! I love the purpose, the planning, the tidbits, the social, the different venues.
So with that, it seems like a clog broke for me. And suddenly I'm interested in training plans, races, and planning with my Excel spreadsheets.
Yesterday a lot of planning started to fall into place. My goals became more concrete: 100k, 70.3, and what might be my birthday race -- a 50M/50k weekend challenge in Wisconsin! And finisher's get pajama pants! WHOOP!
Yesterday I started a spreadsheet, last night I penciled in changes, today I updated and color coded my weeks. I have penciled in -- a 6hr overnight race (Dark2Dawn), a 100k (Shawnee Hills), two 70.3 races (Rt 66 and the new Litchfield), and the grand-daddy 50/50 (Wedel Farms). Not sure about both 70.3 races -- it makes for a messy schedule.
But if I stay focused on my endurance, low HR, and get back to bike and swim I can pull this off.
BUT -- first things first here. I have two somewhat major body issues. First off I've been slacking on my strength training and I can feel the weakness and stiffness in my back. I thought I was doing as Tom says "embrace your car", but in doing so I lost sight of "...for the rest of your life". In talking to him Saturday, I learned that I do need to embrace your car and drive the hell out of it but I have to take care of it everyday.
Second, my left hip. I gotta admit, this isn't getting better. Hard to say if it's getting worse. Today while running it was a constant nag. It's somewhere between really bad discomfort and pain. Hell, just sitting here I'm aware of it. It's kinda like a super tight muscle. It aches -- sometimes not just the hip but down into the quad and femur and sometimes the calf. Many options for what's going on. Nerve? That might explain the whole leg, pulsing, random problem but I don't have other nerve symptoms. Tight connective or muscle? This would explain the quad/femur/kinetic chain effect, and it would explain the alternating good and bad days. Some days more loose than others?
But I can't explain why sitting still and even more confusing lying in bed can be so uncomfortable! Not moving at all, the pain will come and go. It's doing that right now.
In the run today, I was 90% resolved to call Dr M. What is my hesitation for that? It's not like he won't believe me, like he'll think I'm nuts. But I do feel 'weak', like a complainer, like a problem child.
And finally, some numerics of the biomedical kind. At the health fair at work: 118 pounds, 9.5% BF, 11.5lbs body fat, and my right arm is 0.3lbs heavier than my left. And it wasn't the Garmin, haha!
Monday, March 13, 2017
Suit up, show up, something with happen -- tjd
SWIM 1600y in 45 mins
Snow, so no bike
Tom said the above -- so with that in mind (and the reward of pork rinds if I did the full 45 mins...my carrots are a little different!) I suited up and showed up. Unlike last week!
But to my dismay they were refilling the pool or something so it was cold at the shallow end, hotter about 1/3 of the length in, then comfortable the rest of the way. So a full round trip would be cool, hot, comfy, turn, comfy, COLD, cold. It was terribly distracting. And hit the body hard as it was kind of a shock to hit the cold spot. The temp changes were made worse for me by the relative temps -- not sure I'm explaining this correctly. It was also like going into and out of AC and heat really fast, except water has a bigger effect than air. Ugh, so bad I was resting in the deep end where the water was warm. When I left the pool was empty, and Anton said others were unhappy too. Ah well. It's Done! I did a WU then 5x200 as pull-swim-pull-swim with each 200 focused on one drill. As much as I could focus on a drill with that distraction.
Snow! A very pretty snow too, driving by TGP was a treat. The trees and ground were coated with a sticky clean snow that was gone by the end of the day. There's some major weather system in the northeast, a n'oreaster or something like that, and the Weather Channel is making up stuff about a Bomb-something storm system. Why do I click on those stupid videos?!
Snow, so no bike
Tom said the above -- so with that in mind (and the reward of pork rinds if I did the full 45 mins...my carrots are a little different!) I suited up and showed up. Unlike last week!
But to my dismay they were refilling the pool or something so it was cold at the shallow end, hotter about 1/3 of the length in, then comfortable the rest of the way. So a full round trip would be cool, hot, comfy, turn, comfy, COLD, cold. It was terribly distracting. And hit the body hard as it was kind of a shock to hit the cold spot. The temp changes were made worse for me by the relative temps -- not sure I'm explaining this correctly. It was also like going into and out of AC and heat really fast, except water has a bigger effect than air. Ugh, so bad I was resting in the deep end where the water was warm. When I left the pool was empty, and Anton said others were unhappy too. Ah well. It's Done! I did a WU then 5x200 as pull-swim-pull-swim with each 200 focused on one drill. As much as I could focus on a drill with that distraction.
Snow! A very pretty snow too, driving by TGP was a treat. The trees and ground were coated with a sticky clean snow that was gone by the end of the day. There's some major weather system in the northeast, a n'oreaster or something like that, and the Weather Channel is making up stuff about a Bomb-something storm system. Why do I click on those stupid videos?!
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Week Summary, missed my swims!
Tuesday RUN 6.35 miles in 1:02
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2
Wednesday BIKE COMMUTE 9.2
Thursday RUN 6.3 mils with DC and his intervals, 55 mins 8:44m/m
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles
Friday BIKE COMMUTE 13.3 miles
Saturday rest
Sunday RUN 9.2 miles, work commute
You'll note that I'm missing the Weds and Fri swims. Just didn't have it in me to do them. Lazy? Tired? Cold outside....
But on Friday I did the YMCA bike route anyway, even though I didn't go into the YMCA. Super big headwind that day, the 9 miles to work was brutal.
Saturday was a full day at work, Skyped with Tom!
The Sunday run felt great, 4.3 to work then 4.6 home, all easy and with the HR strap so I'm getting gooder data. I see a brief high HR during the warm up then it drops into the 120's. Nice. Today was not only Daylight Savings but also a full moon!
Garmin has "opened a case" on the Garmin. Wonder how long that takes to resolve?
NUMERICS
Swim 1600 yards
Bike 52 miles
Run 21.8 miles
Guess it was a rest week?
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2
Wednesday BIKE COMMUTE 9.2
Thursday RUN 6.3 mils with DC and his intervals, 55 mins 8:44m/m
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles
Friday BIKE COMMUTE 13.3 miles
Saturday rest
Sunday RUN 9.2 miles, work commute
You'll note that I'm missing the Weds and Fri swims. Just didn't have it in me to do them. Lazy? Tired? Cold outside....
But on Friday I did the YMCA bike route anyway, even though I didn't go into the YMCA. Super big headwind that day, the 9 miles to work was brutal.
Saturday was a full day at work, Skyped with Tom!
The Sunday run felt great, 4.3 to work then 4.6 home, all easy and with the HR strap so I'm getting gooder data. I see a brief high HR during the warm up then it drops into the 120's. Nice. Today was not only Daylight Savings but also a full moon!
Garmin has "opened a case" on the Garmin. Wonder how long that takes to resolve?
NUMERICS
Swim 1600 yards
Bike 52 miles
Run 21.8 miles
Guess it was a rest week?
Monday, March 6, 2017
Swim felt good!
SWIM 1600y in 45 mins
BIKE COMMUTE 11 miles
The lazy part of my mind tossed out the idea of skipping the swim so "I could rest" but I knew better than to fall for that banana in the tailpipe!
This swim felt good - 200S, 200P, 200K, 200S, then 200 choice backstroke and kickboard. MS was 6x {50 pull, 50 swim} each focused on a drill. Feel how it feels with the pull buoy then swim the same feeling. Drills were simple and basic: front quadrant, wide entry, head position, breathing.
I noted last week that my out of breath feeling is usually due to me running out of breath, not running out of muscle. My ME is weak, but that's not my primary reason.
Left hip still feels good!
BIKE COMMUTE 11 miles
The lazy part of my mind tossed out the idea of skipping the swim so "I could rest" but I knew better than to fall for that banana in the tailpipe!
This swim felt good - 200S, 200P, 200K, 200S, then 200 choice backstroke and kickboard. MS was 6x {50 pull, 50 swim} each focused on a drill. Feel how it feels with the pull buoy then swim the same feeling. Drills were simple and basic: front quadrant, wide entry, head position, breathing.
I noted last week that my out of breath feeling is usually due to me running out of breath, not running out of muscle. My ME is weak, but that's not my primary reason.
Left hip still feels good!
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