Midweek Update

Not much to add, here. Yeah, I know that I've been boring lately but there really isn't much going on since I'm not racing this year. Monday was a core workout where my shoulder was killing me by the end of it. Tuesday was a lunchtime bike ride. It was actually pretty pleasant that day. I decided to ride at lunch when it was only 90 degrees versus doing the Tuesday Nighter when it would have been 100 degrees. Wednesday was a decent swim. I felt pretty good and my shoulder wasn't giving me too much grief. Speaking of, I'm going to see Dr. Phil on Friday about my shoulder so hopefully I won't be bitching about it so much soon.

I Crashed

I did the Tuesday Nighter on Tuesday night. And I crashed. I got dropped pretty quickly but I lasted more than 2 minutes than I did the week before. I got passed by a guy and I was feeling decent so I was going to pass him back. I was going to go around a right hand turn since I like taking RHT aggressively. As I was making the turn, I spied a huge truck coming up the opposite lane. I hit my brakes and I must have hit them too hard because I hit the pavement. I think I hit my back brakes and put too much pressure on my right handlebars. This twisted my front end to the right and I end ed up falling over the the left. That was lucky because I just got my bike back 3 days earlier from a fucked up derailleur. I remember being almost completely on the top of my head and looking up at the sky with my feet in the air. I got up and was mostly OK. My left hamstring hurt like hell and my left ankle was bleeding. And to add insult to injury, I got a flat as well.

I pulled off to the side, changed my tire and went on gingerly. I swam on Wednesday night and was only able to do 100yds. I hurt my groin in the wreck and every stroke I took caused all of my muscles to flex and it hurt like hell. That was after weights at lunch. Thursday was yoga, Friday was off, and Saturday was a 2400m swim.

Today was a pretty big day. I did a 1:50 ride from my house. It was windy but the weather was actually almost pleasant. Also, I felt like crap for the first 30 minutes but after that, I almost felt athletic again. I should be feeling great in about 2 weeks of consistent training. In the afternoon, I did yoga and felt great at yoga as well.

Oh, Friday's weigh in was 188.

2 hour ride

I got a 2 hour ride in yesterday. I meant to go only 1.5 hours but I had a route in mind that took me 2 hours. This was after a 2600m swim in the morning where my shoulder wasn't acting up that much. Saturday was a lazy day because my 1 hour nap lasted from 2:00pm until 6:30pm. The new Batman movie kicks ass though. Friday was weights with a 1.25 hour bike ride on Thursday where I discovered that Southwest Parkway has been covered in the hellacious road surface known as chip seal. That sucks.

Weigh in this morning was 189.5 but I made some of my cookies last night so I doubt that that'll stick tomorrow morning. Sophia is back from the shop and is ready to ride with 3 bottle cages as well. I'm going to be trying to do more volume for the land cardio instead of pussing out with a 1:15 bike ride on Tuesdays.

I'm rambling now so I'll just end it here.

Swimming with one arm

I swam on Saturday morning and my shoulder was acting up. This is frustrating because the pain in my shoulder keeps moving around. I'm really going to start getting some PT done on it to get it better. I figured something out on Saturday though. I figured out a way to get to swim without hurting my shoulder too much. If I'm doing an interval at 90%, my right arm is going at 90% but my left arm is going only at 40-50%. My left arm just goes through the motions without adding much forward motion to it. I make up for it by kicking more which makes my coaches happy. After that was a 1.25 hour bike ride with Texas Iron.

Sunday was the Couples Tri. Long story short is that I showed up to do parking, but I ended up coordinating the entire run course and was one of the last people to leave. It was fun, though, and I've never done anything like that before. I think I did well.

Monday was a 190 weigh in with a core workout after work and then a 2500m swim after that. I think that doing a core/weights workout immediately before a swim workout with a bum shoulder is a very, very bad idea and I'm not going to do it for awhile.

Tuesday was a Tuesday nighter ride where I felt horrible and I was dropped by the B pack in under 2 minutes and I'm not even joking at all. It felt good to get on the bike though. I need to get Fiona tuned up though because she's very noisy when I ride her but Sophia needs to go into the shop which is going to happen today.

Today was a weight session at lunch and then the Couples Tri volunteer party tonight. Should be fun.

My left foot is feeling better. It has been sore the last few days because I was on my feet a lot on Sunday which made it sore. I really thought it was getting better but it felt better because I haven't tested it out much. I see a PT next week and I should have my replacement orthotics by then as well.

I'm partially back on the wagon

The last few days included a weight room session on Wednesday, a 2500m swim on Wednesday night, and a 1:15 bike ride on Thursday night. However, my weight was 189.5 this morning. Ugh. Go down, damnit! I think I'm pretty well back on a routine again because I'm trying to work everything else around workouts. I've learned in the past that I can't just jump into doing doubles every day because that is one sure way to get me sick and burned out really quickly. I'm trying to ease back into it. I have noticed that my appetite is up a lot this week as well.

I don't know if I mentioned it or not here already but my brand new orthotics that I received about a month ago were lost within 2 weeks. I left that next to a pool in my shoes when I was in Atlanta and they weren't there the next day. Sucks because I haven't run during this entire time. I should be getting new ones next week hopefully but we'll see about that. Also my AC went out yesterday and the temp in the house when I want to bed was 86 degrees. Not fun at all. I actually wanted to go to work this morning because it has nice AC there.

Tuesday Update

After being off of work for a week without access to a gym and working out maybe 3 times in 9 days, I'm back into it. I went to the gym yesterday followed by a core workout where I really pushed myself a bit. I was amazed that I was able to do the top half/bottom half pushups where I did 10 bottom halves fine. I wasn't able to do more than 1-2 bottom halves about a month ago. I was really concentrated on my lower back strength because that is figuratively and literally a weak spot on me. I weighed in at 190.5 in the morning but 189 today. No working out for me today because my bike ride was rained out.

Better luck next month

Like May, I had a crappy month of training and I ended up putting on about 4 lbs for the month. I finished at 189 and I need to get back into things. I went for a core workout on Monday, a bike ride on Tuesday, swimming tonight, and plan on another bike ride tomorrow. I've just had stuff come up. I need to get back into a routine and stick with it. I'm feeling very slothenly at the moment.