kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2013 (Year 3!) - CLOSED (Page 94)

So how many calories total is this?  Do you try to up intake on high volume days?  It doesn't seem like that much food at all.

I've given up weight training and lacrosse. Prior to that because of the kids I gave up snowboarding and skydiving due to cost and time spent away from home. Had I still been doing them I would have had to drop them as well. I did so much snow boarding and skydiving that I really don't miss either knowing I took them as far as I could. I do miss weight training because it was so built into the fabric of every day for so long. I really miss lacrosse because I didn't start playing until I was an adult.

Well today I've had:

120 banana 6AM (off 30 minutes recovery trainer ride)
470 almond milk, OJ, protein 8AM (after 2000 yard swim and 2 mile recovery run)
590 pear 9AM
710 apple 10AM
950 roast beef sandwish on single piece of oat bread with relish 11AM

1080 greek yogurt 12PM

So 1080 calories on a recovery day and I'm starving.

I would be swimming if I weren't triathlon training (swim only).  I've swum recreationally my entire adult life.  I took some time off here and there, but I always came back to it.  One of my fondest memories is swimming while I was pregnant with Gordon.  He was a July baby, and I was HUGE and swollen (55+ lbs. with that one ).  The only relief from the back pain and swelling was lap swimming outside at the local pool.  I swam up until I delivered him.  One day, I felt him moving inside my stomach WHILE I was swimming back stroke.  That sensation + the warm sun beating down on my skin.....magical memories.

I sacrifice my writing time to do this.  My goal before my children was to write horror fiction and/or screenplays.  I shelved all of that to have my babies (wrote some poetry and creative nonfiction but nothing great).  I'm just too tired right now from parenting and training to put forth any effort.  It takes too much energy to do both well.  I'll have more time for it once Fred is in school.  For now I'm working on triathlon.    

Powerlifting.  Would make the trade 1 million times over.  If you ever think your body takes a pounding during triathlon try strongman type stuff.  I was a mediocre to below average at pl'ing/strongman, and have watched some ex-training partners advance towards competing.  Back issues, knee issues, shoulder issues, blech.  No thanks.  My knees may ache from time to time, but all in all my health is 10x better at 165 than it was as a 230+ Pl'er.

When you say a 3 scoop bottle of skratch, how much water are you adding the 3 scoops to? I am putting one scoop in about 20 oz of water.

You are eating nice and healthy, you always have. I need to add more carbs I think.

You should be adding 3 scoops to a 24 oz. bottle.  That's 240 calories / 720 mg sodium / 60 g Carbs, which is fairly comperable to Perform or Gatorade Endurance (although there are more electrolytes in Skratch, which helps with water retention and swelling).

Cook the beets before putting them in a blender (or you can buy beet juice).

This is an issue for me right now also.  Like Jen, if I weren't doing tri, I'd be cycling full-time, only riding longer distances on very hilly courses.  I'm struggling right now with how much of that I can still do this year without hurting my tri performance.  I guess I'll strike a balance eventually, but I think I'm going to miss some of the long rides on country roads this summer.  In addition to the exercise benefits, that has always been the time I use to think and process the other stuff going on in my life. 

15 minute warm-up followed by 75 minutes of intervals on the bike. I felt awesome. Followed that up with a 4.5 mile Z1 run which considering how hard I pushed on the intervals I felt surprising light on my feet.

Interesting on the eating intuitively threads.... i think I need to eat more frequently too....I get into that feeding frenzy way too much from getting too hungry.  

Pretty good brick today of hour bike, hour run.  

Did my new running stability exercises for the third time today, and I'm starting to get a little better at them (i.e., better at balancing).  Also, first long-for-me run back after a low-volume week.  Felt pretty good for a 30 minute run; we'll see how sore I am later today...

No lake effect snow here, but 30s, cloudy and flurries, just like the last 6 weeks.  I'm ready for spring too! 

Sticking to doing these and other core exercises has made a HUGE difference for me this year. Stick with it. It is a great ROI on time.