Fred D and Queen Zipp's SWIM, BIKE RUN consistency thread.... CLOSED (Page 24)

Last day of the month, tomorrow morning is my official weigh in.  I'm tempted to skip dinner.   Just kidding, sort of.  But it IS interesting to me how on the day before my official weigh in (which is just an arbitrary thing I created) I eat super well, drink lots of water, no late snacks, and get to bed early.  Wouldn't it be nice if I could just do that every day?  I mean, I know I CAN, I just don't...

I'm off for my last run of the month, pretty cool I only missed one run in all of January.

Glad to hear that Fred (about no Achilles, and bike fit).

Question for the group:  What are your thoughts and experiences with balancing sleep with training?  Lots to say here, but I'll just start with the question, one that is on my mind lately!

Without decent quality sleep training turns to junk hours and is too hard on the body.

hopefully it's not quite that cut and dried!  I've been doing quite a few late night workouts on either the trainer or the treadmill, and it definately compromises my sleep.  I've been getting between 4-6 hours on those nights.  Other nights it's more like 6-7.  My body prefers 8, but hasn't seen that in years...  

Anyway, I know it's not optimal but still it seems like working out on less sleep is better than not working out at all.  I suppose it's a balance of how often, how much, how hard, all that stuff.  

david.

I operate best on 7-8 hours of sleep.  I think my workout results are better and I rarely get sick.  Deep into IM training, it is sometimes tough to get that amount of sleep because of getting up so early, but then I take naps after really long days.

My goal is always to go to bed at almost the same time regardless if it is mid week or the weekend and get up at the same time too.  I am very willing to sacrifice social time to do it.

Dragged my weary butt out of bed to run today, took it to the treadmill cause I was so tired.  Is the day over yet? 

February goals.....Hmmm will try to quantify these today.

Here's my Jan totals.  I give myself a B-.  Getting sick all last week certainly didn't help:

S:  3500.00 Yd - 1h 12m 
B:  97.13 Mi - 6h 22m 48s 
R:  83.54 Mi - 12h 35m 25s 
Basketball:  3h 15m 

You can definitely tell what my priorites were in January.  That will continue.

I met my January goals for consistency!!!  Yeah!!!  Now to continue with that consistency into February. 

Thanks again to this group!

Didn't make any dent on my weight goal for January, so will try again in February.

January's totals: 
Bike: 6h 25m 27s 
Run: 14h 28m 13s  - 75.37 Mi 
Swim: 3h 00m    

and my Feb 1 scale reading is...  207.  Right where I've been for the last week or so, and down 3 from Jan 1.  I hoped for better this month, but apparently hoping doesn't get it done.  

I'm pleased with my numbers, it fits right in with my mission statement of: run a lot, bike a bit, don't forget how to swim.  I think I might start logging distances on my trainer rides though, just so I have something to see in my logs other than the time ridden.

Breaking down my run a little more, I ran 26 times for an average of 2.90 miles/run.  And my average pace for the month was 11:31 minutes/mile.  The longest run was 3.99 miles.  These are the numbers I intent to track each month to see how they improve with time.

Today I'm going to do an hour on the trainer followed by a 30 minute run.  

david.

 Yes, I have heard about the crossfitters doing marathons or triathlons by just doing crossfit or crossfit endurance but I'm certainly not in that "camp".  Although CF kick started my way into a healthier lifestyle, I believe one gets better in S,B,R by doing a lot of S,B and R =)  Thank you for all your advice Queen Zipp !

Thank you Experior for all the helpful advice and esp for the link to the  swimsmooth page. I like keeping the nutrition simple part and I hope to add some strength training in time. In the past,I've always lost more weight when I was doing more strength training with cardio. 5 kids aged 11 and under ? Awesome. There is hope for me =)

I met my January goals for the most part but disappointed that I didn't lose more weight. All this training made me eat more and I was forced to purchase some girl scout cookies from a few neighbors =)   I lost most of the holiday excess but still about 7 pounds from my low last year and about 15 pounds from my goal and hopefully racing weight. February is a busy month so goals are to continue consistent training and focus on my diet/nutrition even more.  I'm turning the big 43 this Sunday when I will be running the Surf City Half Marathon with a few neighbors. First sprint tri is 3 weeks away and can't believe its already here...quite excited though. Have a great weekend all.

Happy birthday !   I turn 53 on Monday.

Started the month off right.. got up early this morning, went to the pool, bought a 12 visit pass and did a short swim.  This is an 18 metre pool, (19.6 yards).  I counted 30 lengths but think I missed a few so called it 600 yards. 

Work nights tonight and tomorrow, then going to a friends on Sunday for a get together starting at noon.  I'll try to go to the gym tomorrow morning but Sunday is doubtful I'll get time to do anything.

Awesome!!!!  Happy Birthday.  And congratulations on getting that swim pass.

Ok here's the question for you folks.  I think I already know the answer but here we go:

I think I'm going to pull the trigger on IMKY (my 2nd IM) over the weekend. IMKY is on 8/25

However, I've been eyeing a stand alone marathon (Pocono Marathon) on 5/19 (would be my first). This is 14 weeks away from IM.  Thoughts on doing both?  What info do you need from me to formulate your advice?