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So my first week of Ironman training is complete.  7 days.  7 days of not following the plan!  Actually, by the end of it, I did get in some of the workouts, and I did try to keep things at a very low heart rate.  Hoping that the return to work will enable me to be more structured in my training.  I did add in some strength training and stretching which should help my knee stabilize. 

How's everyone doing?

Well I dd it...I joined the YMCA and got my first early morning swim in this morning. Up at 0430 and in the water by 0510. I talked to a friend of mine who did endurance swimming in college and he gave me a few things to work on. I still need to take a few lessons from a professional, but I felt pretty good in the pool today. I worked on staying long in the water, and my breathing. For a few laps I actually felt very good and the breathing felt right.

Oh yeah: actually trying to eat right now also. This sucks! I brought my turkey sandwich, apple and cottage cheese today for lunch. I am so hungry right now.

Day one of the new year training starts tonight for me with a 30 min run and upper body lift, followed by a 6am trainer ride. Does anyone have that podcast link handy? I have a few spinnervals dvd and they are all a little too long for a morning workout to get to work on time. Im looking to keep the workout to about 45 minutes 

I'm also on day 3+ on my soda free challenge going cold turkey. I was a diet coke addict and caffeen junkey. 

 Jay I find that when I quit cold turkey after a week DC tastes awful.... Sacralidge I know but my body just doesn't like it. Helps keep me honest if I have a relapse.  I gave it up for about 2 months in the early fall and felt great, then started adding 1-3 into my diet per week and kept on drinking it now I'm giving it up again. Tonight i need to buy some seltzer just to have something that isn't just water....and for my cafeene sometimes ill use unsweatened ice tea. I'm trying to work out artifical sweetners. 

Jan 1 isn't any magical date.  It's just coincidence that our training plans work back to that time.  And we have different races and different plans.  My 30 week plan actually started on Dec 29. 

But, having said that, now that I'll be back on a regular schedule, it'll be easier to structure my workouts. 

As for soda, my kids guilted me into not drinking soda for an entire month.  The stuff they learned in Health class was pretty bad.  But I haven't had a soda since before Thanksgiving.  It really is an addiction. 

Now, the kids are saying I should try it with coffee.  Ummmm...NO!!!

Do your PT - its the most important thing you can do to get back and stay back on your feet.

I can't give up coffee..... I am a boring irritable person without it.  I once tried to give it up and a friend came up to me one day and asked "Hey, where did Jeni go?  Did you leave her at the bottom of a coffee cup somewhere?" I promptly walked to the nearest coffee shop

I did a week of cross country skiing that kicked my A$$... Skate Skiing--oh my gosh what a workout. Since there is an evil snow slush everywhere outside I figured I should pick up a winter cross training sport.  I am trying to put in as many and as much hard workouts as I can before now and surgery next thursday and use the post surgery time to just rest.

Hang in there.  I quit drinking diet coke last year....cold turkey as well.  I was knocking back 4+ cans a day.  There are still a few cans in the fridge in case company asks, but the temptation is gone.  It's worth it.  You won't miss it after much longer.

I did the same thing.  I just started back up with the lifting.  Did that yesterday evening, and this morning's swim was a little tough on the arms/shoulders. 

When it's hot out, you might want to ease back a little bit.  If you're training by Heart Rate, you'd probably see that your HR gets up there quicker than usual.  If you're feeling drained, don't push things.  Your body is telling you to rest.  Start your normal workout and if you don't loosen up and start to feel better, then just cut it short and save it another day.  (Now if only I could listen to my own advice.) 

My first tri is on Feb1st also, yours wouldn't happen to be the Max Performance Tri  in Shelbyville, Kentucky would it?

tri_jean - 2009-01-08 12:30 AM Daisy, what did you have surgery on? (If I was a good team member, I would know this . . . but I don't). And, just to point out, it seems that you like cake!

didn't have surgery - a few weeks before Christmas (and a tri) I aggravated a disc in my back, first time I've ever had a back problem.  It was so painful, really scared me.  I also have a trochonteric bursitis in my hip caused by an unstable pelvis.  My PT does intensive pilates with me once a week to build up my gluteus medius to stabilise the pelvis and now I have back exercises too.  Easing back in to the riding and runing.  Doing lots of swimming and have started some strength training.  How's the knee doing?

Wish me luck today boys and girls - after luck I'll be off to demo a gym.  Besides the small corporate gym at my last real job, this will be the first time ever.  Its got a pool though, so I'm going to try to make it work, even though it will mean getting home even later than usual a few nights a week.

BTW, had a beauty of a run this morning - it was cool and crisp out (and dark) - not so fast, but I felt really good throughout and after the run.

daisymouse - 2009-01-07 3:19 PM

tri_jean - 2009-01-08 12:30 AM Daisy, what did you have surgery on? (If I was a good team member, I would know this . . . but I don't). And, just to point out, it seems that you like cake!

didn't have surgery - a few weeks before Christmas (and a tri) I aggravated a disc in my back, first time I've ever had a back problem. It was so painful, really scared me. I also have a trochonteric bursitis in my hip caused by an unstable pelvis. My PT does intensive pilates with me once a week to build up my gluteus medius to stabilise the pelvis and now I have back exercises too. Easing back in to the riding and runing. Doing lots of swimming and have started some strength training. How's the knee doing?

discs can be evil little buggers. I have one that gets annoyed and causes shooting pains down my hip, so for the longest time my physio thought it was hip related. Then they started giving me movements and exercises to do based on the MacKenzie method . After a lot of evaluation by the physio, it was crazy how finding the right movement/exercize made the pain move and then go away. Unfortunately with starting a new activity (cross country skiing) it came back a bit, but now I know what it is and I know what to do and after a few days its gone again.

I'm one week from collarbone surgery.. FINALLY! And my number one goal is to not move for at least a week so it will actually heal this time!

Any new years resolutions? Mine: NOT to get injured in 2009.