It's never felt better...

I find regular training can cause "ground hog" day. The routine makes everyday seem like the next, especially during the week. I get up at 8-8:30 am, work, train, play on the computer, blog, twitter, watch the Daily Show and then go to bed around 11:30 pm. Then it repeats, and repeats, and repeats, and repeats, and repeats until the weekend.

When I sleep I wake up two to three times a night. The strangest thing is that most times I don't know where I am, even though I'm in my own bed. It's that same feeling that you get when you travel; sleeping in a hotel room and waking up and saying "hey, wait a minute, this doesn't look like my room, where am I"? Truth be told, I kinda like waking up and not knowing where I am and trying to figure it out.

When I woke up this morning, I debated with myself if I should weigh myself or not. I haven't weighed myself in at least three weeks. I used to do it daily. My pants and clothes have been fitting fine and Alice thought I was even looking skinny the other day, so why bother weighing myself?

I've even been considering not weighing myself at all, ever again. But today I couldn't resist. I know I haven't been eating well and needed motivation to cut down on food and drink. You see, if I've gained weight I'm actually more motivated to eat better and drink less. I remember what it felt like to be fat and I "never" want to go back to being a fatso.

I ended up weighing 185.4 lbs at 23.1 BMI. I gained 3 lbs and 1% BMI. Another reason I weighed myself was that I wanted to know if weight gain was causing me to run slower. Unfortunately 3 lbs wouldn't be enough to do it. I checked my training log and I've averaged over 600 miles of training per month for the last 7 months. That's probably what's slowing me down, I need to reduce mileage and recover for a few months. Like I did last year. Unfortunately, I still have to train for Clearwater, so until November 14th, I'm "hooped".

Today was the last training day of the month. This number is hard to believe, but it was 599.99 miles of total training. Not because it is a lot of mileage, I've done more, but because I was only .01 away from breaking 600 miles for the month. I considered running down the street to get it, it would have taken only 30 seconds, but I figured no, it's such an unbelievable and unlikely number, I think I'll keep it.

I got my bike fixed today and it has never ridden so well, everything moved smoothly. Those guys at Wheels are excellent. They replaced my brake and gear cables due to corrosion, that's why it wasn't switching gears or braking properly. They also found the headset and areo bars were loose.

They were very fair on the price and charged me $55, but by the time I bought a couple more long stem tubes and carbon brake pads, I ended up spending $155. A $100 of that expense was directly related to having carbon racing wheels. No racing wheels and I'd have an extra $100 in my bank account right now. Man, looking good and thinking wheels will make me go faster on the bike can be expensive. In reality, dropping those 3 lbs would make me go faster and it'd be a whole lot cheaper.

The owner of my local bike shop sure screwed himself, he just lost out on my $155 purchase due to his berating me over not buying my bike at his shop . Although, I did save money at Wheels, their long stem tubes are only $10, my old bike shop was $14.

My legs are still a little sore and flat. During the ride I stopped to change from a podcast to music on my iPhone and a guy rode by me. He got a good kilometer ahead of me before I started the chase. Within about 3 minutes I was almost on his tail. I was flying and he was also pushing it. It just shows how the competitive juices can take over and block the pain of muscle soreness.

Speed Bike - 59.09 / 30.26 km / 30.7 km avg / 135 avg hr

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September Monthly Totals

Swim - 9.92 miles / 16 km

Bike - 502.49 miles / 810.47 km

Run - 87.58 miles / 141.25 km

weights - 3 sessions

Totals - 599.99 miles / 967.72 km

Total Calories Burnt 44,333

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