Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Part 2 -- Full Pod (Page 14)

Aaii. I'm getting a little queasy now. Thanks, guys. Between thinking about green seaweed tentacles in my drink, squishy fish eyeballs, and chicken feet. I don't think I'll be eating in a while.

Right. They promise not to eat you, and you won't eat them.

Now, that is really funny. That would be like the French not knowing what French Toast is.

I love the choco PB spread!  A actually used it to make mini graduation caps for my SIL's graduation party.  They were up-side-down PB cups with a dab of the choc PB to hold on the chocolate covered graham cracker morter board, with a fruit roll-up tassle.

On the training note... I am frustrated.  I have two build weeks and a taper left before my A race. I missed my long run last weekend because I was busy with church stuff.  This week I am busy with work stuff, I have already missed a bike and my session thursday is unlikely too! AAARGHHHH!

Sorry you are struggling, TJ.  It's frustrating when life gets in the way of training fun .  Just remember that you have done a ton of work to this point, and missing a couple of workouts at this point is unlikely to take away from your fitness.  Get in the workouts you can, let go of those you can't.  Hang in there!!

Great hike today, and a good swim workout this evening, As promised, here's a pic from the hike (I'll put more in my blog...):

This was just past the trail head--you had to cross the creek to continue on the trail...

Absolutely agree - training is all in the bank now, I'm probably going to miss a few this week due to being sick but I figure I've done 18weeks of hard training, can't probably improve much now!

WOAH motivation!  Macca is doing Cairns IM - cannot wait to see him in action, hope I finish the half before he finishes the full...it's gonna be close!  Cannot wait to be on the finish line until midnight cheering on the age groupers.  So special.  Will cry buckets.

No training tonight, listening to the body and it says have a beer.  So who am I to disagree.  Swim squad tomorrow.

Hubby now has my cold but his version is of course 100000000 times worse.... LOL!

Ok, all this food talk is making me seriously look at my eating habits.  My weight was up 8lbs from Big Sur this morning.  Yes, only 1 month, but in my defense it has been month from H*LL!!!!

I so need to take the weight back under control.  Will be diet/eating plan researching today.  I looked in to My Fitness Plan but the calorie counting thing drives me crazy and then I just walk around feeling deprived and sorry for myself.  I have to find a way to trick my mind so that it doesn't realize I am dieting.  My mind is an all or nothing gal so if I blow it, I binge.  I don't just binge for 1 day, I binge until the next reasonable starting day, like the 1st of the month or the next Monday.  I suck at diets but I have been on probably every one known to man. 

I am too old for this $hit!!  Is there a pop tart/potato chip diet?  

LOL! 

Graham Cracker

English Muffin

Oh man, I'm with you guys.  It seems that every day I am just CRAVING something sweet, usually a cookie or brownie or something along those lines (Felicia, I should have joined you in the no sweets May Challenge, but I would drag down our team!!)  I do log my calories, I find it doesn't take that long. And when I see what eating something like a second M&M cookie would do to my total (this is a real life story from last night!!), it helps me make the right choice.  I did NOT eat the 2nd cookie, yay me!  I really hate it when I don't look up something's calorie/nutrition info and eat it, then find out it was 500 cals and 20g of fat.  If I had known, I would have skipped it (real life example: butterfinger brownie. Holy S**t that looks good.  190 cals and 9g fat...for a THIRD of it. Well we know I ain't stopping after a third.  Put it back.)  I've also been really trying to have more fruit and veggies.  You don't get fat eating those, so go to town! I'll make the husband his fave rice pilaf with butter etc. and have steamed brussel sprouts or green giant broccoli and cheese singles for my side.  Load that plate with fresh veggies and it should really help.  Of course, this is all so easy for me to say. In practice...well, there's a chocolate dipped-peppermint-chocolate shortbread cookie bar with my name on it at the local coffee house that i WILL be eating today.  Once a week is the deal I made with myself.  Best to do it on track session day.   Sigh, why do all these yummies have to exist??

Agree with everyone else - if it makes you feel better, I missed TWO WEEKS of workouts for no reason other than busy/lazy before my first tri, and I still rocked it.  Try to squeeze in one of each sport if you can, just to keep yourself sharp, but you will be just fine  

Like I said to Jo last week, sometimes I think that the scheduling is as difficult as the training!

I feel your pain.  My current training block is good up until 3 Mountain Madness.  Then I do the ride on Saturday, regular swim on Sunday but Long Run on Monday.  I predict and early bedtime that day! 

Oh well, no one made me sign up for both 3MM and Vineman and I do think that after the climbs in June, Vineman's hills in July will look smaller.

That's because Fotis has man flu, ha ha. Ah, give him a cuddle from me, tell him I hope he feels better. Ahem, does he have any unmarried brothers by chance?

I agree with everyone else ... your money's in the bank and your body will probably do BETTER for the extra time to build back from all the training.

Kate: the pic from your hike looks awesome, thanks for sharing!

TJ: yeah, life has a way of throwing curve balls.  You have a great base, you should be fine.  Even if you can squeeze in a short workout in the place of a long one, it is something.

Jo: so cool you and Macca will be at the same venue!  And glad to hear your cold is improving. 

The other Jo: yes, food and weight are such a struggle for me, too.  Definitely up the veggies and fruit.  Not only are they generally less calories for more bulk, but they add fiber which is good as filler and also to, uh, keep things moving.  I'm currently in a diet slump, too, which I know is tied to my post-race slump.  My motivation is to be leaner so I can be faster and healthier, so I try to imagine how much easier running and biking [up hills] will be if I can drop 10 lbs. or so.

Kirk: I am SO hungry for Nutella and PB on waffles thanks to you!

Chris: Never tried deep-fried Twinkie but I do know that deep-fried Oreos dusted with confectioner's sugar is sinfully wonderful!

Allen and Yanti: you can keep your chicken feet and fish eyes and whatnot!   The area I live in has a good deal of weird foods some of which absolutely turn my stomach just at the smell.  Scrapple.  Puddin. Tripe.  Head cheese. Blech, I gotta stop.  I'm making myself sick!

Thanks all for the encouragement.  It does help me worry less about Moab.  We train to live, not live to train, right? Sometimes I get that backwards.

Salty, thanks for the tip on the RunKeeper!  I love that it will shuffle my playlist AND tracks each mile! Awesome! Have you tried it on the bike?

Mmmm. Please pass some Nutella or Peanut Butter to go with those graham crackers.

I am starving!!!! I had a piece of strawberry swirl banana bread before my run this morning. Ran 6 miles, had a cup of hot tea, just finished a banana with Nutella, and it's an hour until lunch!

I already have that planned, too. Green salad with grilled chicken breast. I've been thinking about it since I went to bed last night. lol

Our Administrative Assistant brought in left over birthday cake from her daughter's 18th birthday. I am resisting. I know I would feel just horrible if I ate it, emotionally as well as physically.

I'll keep thinking about my grilled chicken breast with greens.

Did I mention that I am starving???

There has GOT to be some sort of joke about seaweed muncher, but I am too hungry to come up with it right now....