Odds & Ends

Last week was a mix of a week and it was also a week that seemed to last FOREVER!  A lot of time spent training but I also announced my new business.  Tri-Peaks Consulting on Thursday.

The totals for the week play out to be 36 miles of running and 115 miles of riding, and all of the riding was outdoors, no time was spent on the trainer. That makes a grand total of seventeen hours and thirteen minutes of training volume for the week.  Leadman training is going quite well.

It was a great weekend in other ways as well.  Melissa and I went to Joseph's for dinner on Friday night.  I wanted to surprise her since life was still chaotic and upside when our anniversary rolled around on the 8th.  As usual the food was amazing and we had fun chatting with Joseph and Rick and joking around.  I did cheat on Friday night and I actually had the creme brulee for desert.  It was worth it, completely worth it.

I am working on a nutritional presentation associated with the business.  One of the biggest problems that we face today I believe is not that we are stupid, or lazy, or just pigs... most of the dietary issues in the country are founded within the choices, or lack of, that we are so constantly and easily presented with.  Now don't take me wrong, I have eaten TONS of stuff out of vending machines for years, I mean that is why they are there... but it does beg the question, why isn't higher quality food made to be more readily available in this country? 

The standard workplace vending machine.  The only two things in here that are even remotely healthy would be the peanuts and the beef jerky.  And if you are only eating Paleo fare, not even the peanuts because they are legumes.  The beef jerky would even be suspect because I would bet money that the first ingredient after beef is HFCS. 

So just trying to get a foothold onto this week.  Enjoying my day off from training and trying to get data migrated to a single platform for the business.  I really hope to get out at sometime today and enjoy the weather.

Tuesday Tra... wait, no... Tuesday Ride!

Time for a change up and officially training on the bike so no more Tuesday track sessions.  Today's ride was supposed to be a 1:00:00 to 2:00:00 ride on the bike keeping my heart rate between 120 and 130.  That was a challenge.  First of all getting the pulse there and then recognizing it was the first part, then came the challenge of holding it there and not going too far above... or below if going down any sort of hill.

I basically rode up to the Air Force Academy and back in 1:55:00, 25 miles and I kept the average heart rate at 127.  Mission accomplished... I think.   Tomorrow is a 45 minute to 1:10 run and I need to keep my HR between 130 and 145.  This will be interesting.

I am learning about MAF and how all of that works.  Basically right now as I understand it we are keeping my heart rate low over long(ish) durations to build a really solid endurance base I guess.  By keeping the heart rate low consistently over a certain period, the body is forced to make specific adaptations which it can't if you are operating anaerobically or if your heart rate is constantly yo-yo-ing like mine is probably more apt to do.  

On the eating front I am liking Paleo over any low carb thing I have done in the past.  It really helps me to be able to eat all of the fruit and veggies that I want when I want.  My body feels like it is adjusting but it isn't suffering like if I were only having 20 or so grams of carbs per day.  This is actually comfortable.  Part of my research before starting this was trying to figure out what I can eat and where if I go out for lunch or something.  Thankfully I can still go to King's Chef and other places and be just fine just as long as I am careful about what I order.  I won't be doing any of that soon but in the future once things settle down and I get used to the routine.

Watched this video a few times today... this is probably the part of the pack that I will be in so I should get used to it.  At least back "there" it isn't  a crowded so that makes me feel a little better.  But today the reality set in a bit more that in a few months I will actually be racing the damned bike instead of just riding it... Who saw that one coming ever?