Occasionally, I’ve been running Sunday afternoon to catch up with friends but I am trying to limit that as much as I can. Saturday a is cleaning day and Sunday is meal planning and grocery shopping. ![]() Fridays I’m almost always gone, either at my grandmother’s house or taking Evelyn to her science class. I’m slowly settling into a schedule that has me doing laundry all day on Monday, doing school work with Evelyn on Tuesday and Thursday (while Alvy is at preschool), and catching up on other stuff on Wednesday. And if it’s not in my kid’s dressers it will never make it’s way onto their bodies without parental intervention and parental intervention is unlikely if mom is clipped to a bike. ![]() You see, if I get desperate I can get pizza or Chinese food delivered, or ask Jason to go get sushi like I did last night, but no one is going to deliver my kid’s laundry into their dressers except me. You’d think it would be cooking or grocery shopping, but nope. ![]() LAUNDRY is the most important chore in the entire house. I’m learning to take care of the important stuff and let go of everything else. Toys everywhere, tumbleweeds of dog hair accumulating in the corners, and clothes laying in the floor exactly where they were taken off. Our house, which I normally keep pretty clean, looks like a war zone. Slowly, I am discovering little life hacks/shortcuts that help get everything done. I you ask Jason, it may be another story – I don’t think he’s a fan of my new 7 p.m. Family Life and Workout Balanceįor the most part this is going surprisingly well. And as long as it works, I’m sticking with it. I know, eventually, I will need to get my tail off the trainer and actually ride my bike outside (which will involve flip/flopping my Friday and Saturday workouts) but for now it seems to work. I feel like I’m making progress and I seem to be in about the same spot from a duration/intensity perspective as everyone else who is training. The schedule/training plan I wrote is working out nicely. I’d much rather do it all in one chunk but I know that that’s not a realistic proposition once the training load increases and I’m doing three or four hours a day instead of two. Honestly, I’m not really a fan of working out twice a day. What IS new is breaking that 2+ hours up into two segments I normally do it all at once. I’m used to spending two or more hours a day working out. I slowly lower myself in the pool, let out a little shriek, then bait myself to finish the workout with the promise of five minutes in the hot tub. Every time I walk out of the locker room and into the natatorium, I find myself thinking… And like everything else, the pool at the gym is cold. It’s been cold here (duh, it’s winter), and it’s always cold in my house. What workout am I struggling with the most? Last Saturday, I only ran 7 miles (normally we do 9-10) and I still had to take a 3 hour nap. I’m on the verge of having to give up my Saturday morning trail run beers, too. ![]() The workouts leave me so exhausted on their own, I don’t need any extra help. But I’ve had to stop drinking Monday-Friday almost entirely. I don’t have a high alcohol tolerance and I don’t drink much anyway, maybe four drinks a week total? Two of those on Saturday mornings after my weekly trail run. I could have eaten the entire bowl standing there at the kitchen counter. I guess I need to up my electrolyte intake a bit.īecause I’m so tired, I’ve stopped drinking alcohol during the work week. Last night, I took a couple of bites of the aforementioned blue cheese and it and it was SO SALTY and DELICIOUS. I’m officially on the See Food diet: See food? Eat food. Now I know what it’s like to be a teenage boy. I never once woke up.Īnd don’t even get me started on being hungry. I was so tired, I slept the whole night there. About half way though crumbling blue cheese for the dressing I stopped and asked Jason to go get sushi instead. I started to make spinach salad for dinner but never finished. Yesterday I swam in the morning (8 x 75 meter sprints with 20 seconds recovery along with a bunch of drills, 2,100 meters total), I did a bunch of errands, did laundry, then I ran in the afternoon (7 miles equally split between asphalt and trails). If there’s any word I can use to describe it, it would be tired. Here we are, six weeks into training for Ironman Texas.
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