Tuesday, September 1, 2015

IMCHOO Build 7 recap

Time moves forward, so I have known all summer that eventually, I'd be checking off the longest long-workouts of this training season, but it's pretty amazing to be on the other side of them.

The mental reprieve that came from my camping vacation has continued. I'm not nearly as peaceful as I was while taking a week off, but I am also not nearly as cranky as I was before the vacation.

The left hip aches have continued, but continue to disappear within a few days. I have a massage scheduled tonight, so hopefully that will help reset my muscles for the last push of training.

Mini-goal assessment

  • Focus on nutrition - Absolutely an un-success. While not lashing out at the world with a cranky brain, I have been giving into every eating desire I have had. This includes lowlights of a Slurpee and 3 Musketeers for dinner one night and Panda Express + Haagen Daaz another.
  • Leave the cranky-pants at home for 20 mile peak run - Success! There were a lot of ways I could have complained about the 20 mile run, but I tried really hard not to focus on them, and ended up having a lovely run where I met my goals.

Review of last three weeks

  • 2 Monday bootcamp
  • 2 Weds bootcamp
  • 2 Yoga
  • Swam
    • at 6 swim practices
    • 2 times at the outdoor 50m pool
    • 1 time at 20m outdoor pool. Tiny pool means super fast!
  • Ran
    • 3 Monday night run lead
    • 2 track practices
    • 6 mi at long brick
    • 14 mi long run on "light weekend"
    • 20 mi peak run
  • Biked
    • 1 flat workouts - skipped one with tummy ache
    • 1 hills workout - thunder canceled the week where I was going to go for 5x hill
    • 58 mi at long brick
    • 80 mi on "light weekend" - wonderful to repeat Monocacy 80
    • 118 mi peak bike
    • 14 assorted commute miles

Mini-goals for next build cycle

  • Focus on nutrition, really this time 
  • Do at least 2 2.4 mile straight swims
  • Finish packing checklists

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