Week 21 Recap

Call it a post-mountain ride hangover or possible overtraining but I lacked the motivation to accomplish my training goals for the week. I'm specifically talking about my lack of swimming, largely in part to the constant discomfort I'm feeling in my shoulders. Usually after I finish my speed/tempo runs I head to the pool for 2500-3000 yards. Lately I've been slack because by 6PM I'm overwhelmed with visions of an ice pack, couch, and dinner. I live an exciting night life as you can see. This week I'll focus on getting in swimming. But for now I'll have to stare at the fat zero in the swimming column of my training plan. I still worked a bit over 8 hours this week with 79 miles biking and 28 miles running.

I've developed an urge to eat 24/7 with my recent increases in mileage. While this makes perfect sense I still dropped close to 5 lbs this week. This puts me officially at the 140 mark, which is 5 lbs off what I weighed when I started college more than 10 years ago. This is 30 lbs off what I started with last year.

And for those who wonder if I eat enough... Here's what I had this weekend:

Friday
Two packets of oatmeal w/ground flax seed
One green tea
Half a medium peperoni pizza
Outback 9oz sirloin
House salad
Broccoli side
Mashed garlic potatoes side
1-1/2 Loaf of Outback's bread

Saturday
Bowl of Total
Two Powerbars
12oz Can of Coke
16oz Bottle of Accelerade
Footlong Subway sandwich (turkey/ham)
Two hand fulls of Wheat Thins
Entire large portion of chicken and broccoli w/ white rice (it was probably meant for two people)
Five Oreo cookies
8oz Skim milk

Sunday
Bowl of Total
One Powerbar
16oz Bottle of Accelerade
McDonalds Quarterpounder w/ cheese
Med fries (was craving the salt)
Med Coke
Spinach salad w/ cucumbers and carrots
Macintosh apple
1/2 Cup of wild rice
8oz of Baked cod
8oz of Cranberry juice
Two hand fulls of Wheat Thins