After only two days of eating healthy, I can already tell the difference. This morning, for the first time in a long time, I broke 183 and weighed in at 182.8lbs. I'm still snacking, but not on junk food. Instead it's grapes, apples and yogurt. Later this week I begin my speedwork phase of training and this weekend is a big bike ride, 6 hours 45 minutes, followed by a 30 minute brick run. My plan was to rest today and tomorrow to recover from the over-training and prepare for the increased workload. I wasn't too worried because today and tomorrow are moderate workouts of medium importance. My focus would be to let my legs recover and increase my energy with healthy eating.
Even though I intuitively felt this was the right thing to do, I still checked with MAO. I explained the situation and Mark came back with the exact same approach I thought I should take. He added that once I start my speedwork mid-week, to monitor how I feel on a day to day basis. In the meantime, he suggested I may want to do a short recovery swim, which is scheduled for tomorrow.
On the training gear front, I'm not happy with heart rate monitor on my Garmin 310 xt. It works accurately for only 25 minutes and then I get major erratic readings. Much, much worse than my 305. I've even used EKG gel and it doesn't help. The GPS and computer functions are great, but not the heart rate monitor.
It looks like I'm going to have to wear both my Garmin and Polar during training. I've resigned myself to accepting the Garmin's short coming and I'm not going to bother returning it. I sure hope, at some point, someone makes a heart rate monitor that works well with a GPS. I'll be the first in line to buy it.
Rest Day
182.8 lbs / 22.4 BMI
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Keep on being awesome!
Reading about the struggle is inspirational. And it makes me feel like a sack for not training today and pigging out on crap.
Eat, Rest, Train... Profit.
Thanks for the props R.
B
Very sensible to take it easy until this weekends long and hard stuff.
Sorry to hear about the Garmin, seems it just does not want to co-orporate.
Glad you are losing those lbs, you will be ready and lean comes race day.
J
J, I'm glad you agree. I always feel guilty if I take time off. At least having no energy has focused me on eating better. haha.
B
B. I wish the best of luck with your long bike ride. 6 hours 45 minutes on the bike trainer is going to be a tough ride but I believe that you have what it takes to finish it. By the way, I just checked on the theweathernetwork.com and they say that on Sunday the temperature will rise to +5 Celsius degrees. That might be good enough for an outdoor bike ride, which is way more pleasant than riding on the bike trainer.
D, thanks for the info, an outdoor ride would definitely be better or at least part of it. Thanks again.
good to hear that you are back on the rails! looking forward to reading over the next few days as you push your training forward! thanks for the continued inspiration! Cheers!
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