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#49 - 40 min trainer ride....and even a cheering section this morning....my daughter decided she wanted to come down and "watch dada ride"....so she sat there and cheered me on....for 5 min...and then went back up stairs...lol

Got in all my trainer rides this week, but none of the runs; the motivation just wasn't there. So it'll be a CLP for me.

Spent today building snowmen with the kids.

#50 - 3 mile run.....

All workouts complete for this week.....man am I (and my legs) glad that tomorrow is a rest day.

Hour and a half cross country ski for me today.

I am sore from swimming yesterday!

Kate

Out for a quick trail run this afternoon. So amazed at how much harder it is than road running!!

The liquor store rewarded me for my efforts this week. They had Oscar Blues Death by Coconut Irish Porter ;-) Mmmmm!

The last couple of weeks have had some highs and lows, damn fine margaritas, mojitos, and Puerto Rico's version of Coors Lite..... Medalla Light.

The week before we went on vacation, I was feeling sickish, so I cut back on the training and just did some easy spinning, got some extra sleep, and avoided a full blown cold. The weekend of the big US Snowmaggedon, we drove to Boston and managed to get on a flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico for week. It was awesome 25-30 degrees Celsius everyday. I ran every morning, three runs of 7.5k and two 10k runs. The heat sucked the life out of me. Blood is still thick from the ongoing Canadian winter.

I had hoped to do some ocean swimming, but the sea was angry my friends. Blowing 20kts everyday with big shore break. I got in some bodysurfing, but that's it.

Last week I spent three full days away from home (I'm a corporate pilot). So only one swim and one bike so far, but I ran three times. Planning a longish run (15km) and a one hour ride today. I took the dogs and went into the hills for an hour of snowshoeing yesterday.

The next two weeks I'm focusing on my swimming and biking, because I have a 6 day trip coming up. My swimming is surprisingly good, especially after a 5 year hiatus. I did an 1800m workout this week and I felt strong. I'm gonna build my workouts up to 3000m prior to February 21st. Start of my half IM training.

Biking is going to be on the trainer for the foreseeable future. We just got a big dump of snow, and I think Feb and March will be a write off for any biking outside. The good news..I bought a Garmin speed and cadence sensor which works with my 920XT, and with the online program Zwift. It is an awesome workout tool. Google it and check it out. I think it will bring my cycling to a whole new level since it pushes me to go way harder than I would normally go.

Hope everyone is training hard and doing well.

Cheers
Terry

Fixed it.

I'll start off the update for the week....

Goals:

1) 5x swims
2) 3 30 min runs, 1 20 min run and 5k on saturday
3) Maintain weight (with the superbowl tonight....too many snacking...so if lose anything this week it will be awesome).

Completed all goals for the week!

#56--short morning run fueled by cheese and Fat Tire last night as I watched the game. I will admit it was somewhat rough out there this morning given my poor dietary choices during the previous 24 hours.

Lunch time will be a long swim and then I am going to inquire about metabolic testing at the gym. I know no details beyond that they will test your resting metabolism, but I'm interested to know what my base metabolism is as a starting point to losing some weight. They will do VO2 max testing too, but I'm just not sure what that is used for, so I'm not planning on having it done.

Continue to lose by eating healthy
Make 3x runs
work on core strength on off days

Skiing rocks - enjoy it - I literally have zero snow in my backyard (in VT!) and i think our ski area has about 12 trails open! I have a season pass but haven't even picked it up yet!! Crazy! Powder days are gold - take 'em while you can get 'em!! I will live my skiing life vicariously through you!

I think the snowman makes up for the lack of runs....no CLP

Hi Terry,
i have been wondering if bluetooth was working on Zwift yet - I also have the 920xt and speed and cadence sensors but only a mag trainer and that combo didn't work on Zwift without the ANT+ stick - so it's good with bluetooth now? Sweet!
Nice to see another pilot around!

Hi all! It's been quite a while. I've been trying to keep up with everyone as you've posted but also just spent the last 45 minutes catching up! Well done, everyone! Gretchen is just killing it - I agree, she gets the consistency award!!! Gretchen, I am also happy to see you're looking into training plans, that's very wise I think.
Dave Q I am so sorry about the job loss - just for that alone I want to get some Heady to you somehow, some way, some day.
Sandi, I am so happy to hear from you. I know you've had a tough go of it - I have admired your tenacity and positive attitude and for that give you the January kudos. Hang in there, girl! We are rooting for you!

January started pretty good, training was picking up nicely, I had a plan in place and the project on the house kind of took over. Two weeks ago my husband respectfully requested I stop working out at all to get the painting done (ceilings, walls, trim, baseboards, doors, etc)....I did. The project has gone for 3 weeks beyond projected (from 3 total) and while we are just about out of the woods, the vanity for the bathroom came in damaged so back it went and a new one will come in two weeks. Odd things started happening - the window in the dining room cracked for no apparent reason - no one has been in there - pressure crack maybe? The hot water holding tank started leaking - 9 years old but covered under warranty as was the window (thankfully). It's been a strange project (all these random things happening while the workmen have been here, thankfully!) and I look forward to it all being behind me. Anyway - we're supposed to be proud of something - I'm proud I've kept it together throughout this project - not happy I stopped training for almost 2 full weeks but wanted to keep the spouse happy too - especially for when I pull the trigger and sign up for the IM this summer and will need time to train more then than now. I started back up with the workouts this past weekend - 1 hour on the trainer on Sat and a run on Sun. Today was "off." I did do core work this past weekend and I am sore! LOL. Good for me.

Goals for February - follow my IM training plan as best I can - I'm playing a little catch up as it's a 30 week plan so for example I was supposed to ride 1.5 this past weekend but rode 1 hour instead since it had been 2 weeks and did core work. I also ran 35 minutes instead of an hour, did core work and PT.
I am up for the core challenge - but I am at 8 days in with only a few core workouts. I hesitate to work the same part hard on a daily basis (except I don't mind doing planks everyday as part of a warm-up routine) so I'll stick with every other day on core stuff.
I can't wait to get back in the pool - that fitness seems to go the fastest with me.

Most importantly....beer... it's been a hard liquor kind of month here. hahahha Kettle One has been my friend along with some red wine, and a wide variety of beer. I actually took a picture of the pile of bottle caps that was accumulating from our nightly painting/beering. I finally threw the pile away but will have to locate the picture. Unfortunately the beer cans were not saved, nor the corks, so it's only a sampling....but it reminded me of college. LOL.
Cheers all!

Found it. Root beer caps in there too....kids. LOL





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Workout: I did 4.75 miles today on the treadmill. I'm working on changing my stride a little bit because I think it's negatively impacting my knee. As I shift from midfoot to more forefoot my calves are gonna burn a bit more. They're sore but not too bad.

Superbowl party food negated any gains during the week, but I'll take a break even I guess.