Lost, but not forever

It's been a while since I've written. Well, since the beginning of Dec after the Vegas Half. Since then I have put on some more weight, signed up for Nashville marathon in April, and laid out my season with my tri coach: 1 marathon,two 70.3 distances and one 140.6 (Arizona). I am in a funk right now, not sure what I'm doing with my eating and working out. Am I burnt out? Disinterested? Stressed? Yes, maybe all. I'll be glad when the holidays are over, I get a new position at work, and it's warmer outside. My husband wants me to ride in the cold. Not sure I want that. Maybe I will try.

Read Chrissie Wellington's blog--she's a fabulous writer!

Today's goal is "simple": 3 liters of water. No matter what else I put in my mouth, that much water must follow!

I still have some christmas shopping to do, for a gift exchange happening today. Better get to the store!!

Vegas Half Marathon Results

Overall report: Finished. Would not do that race again. Learned more about myself and racing. Tried new things, even though you aren't supposed to. :) Had fun being with Jess and Heather (even though Heather was forever in front of us!). Good to be away with hubby.

Now, on to allmy opinions and stories:
Vegas was supposed to be my first marathon, but due to health issues (and some brunout), I lost too much time training to actually finish the marathon without breaking myself, so I dropped down. I think this gave me a different mind set than usual--I had no true goals other than to finish and get on with pre-season training. Needless to say, although I didn't have any goals, I guess I really did---I just didn't know it until after I was still miles away from the finish line and it was over 2 hours. Oh well. To dwell on it will not change it. I have a hard time ever feeling like I do enough, so it wouldn't matter if I had done better. :)

The race started out fun. We were in the starting line herd, with a really nice couple from San Fran. At the sound off for the race, there were fireworks booming off for a bit. To look around and know we were inVegas was kind of cool. Heather took off as she was there with a goal. Jess and I just started running, looking at the people dressed up, looking at the strip, talking about our lives. We both had to pee right away, but we waited as long as possible because the port-potties all had long lines. We finally HAD to stop, and it took 5 minutes. Seriously. Later I had to stop again, but after a few minutes I decided to tough it out and keep going. Nothing about the race was eventful for me. At mile 5-ish my feet started hurting. I had one packet of Accel, one fig newton, and some sport beans. Kept hydrated, I thought, but around mile 9 or 10 my head started pounding, like it always does. I told Jess we had to speed up so we could finish and I could get Tylenol. :)

Everyone who had a Garmin was measuring in km, and I only saw 2 mile markers. Maybe there were more, but I didn't see them. That really made me angry, too. I couldn't tell how fast I was running.





Distance HALF MAR

Chip Time 02:15:57
Overall Place 3201 / 11267
Gender Place 1392 / 5849
Division Place 298 / 1076
Age Grade 48.5%
Pace 10:22.1

New FACEBOOK Group for Denver

If you are on Facebook, and doing IMAZ09 and you live in Denver, or in the surrounding areas, check out a new group I put together: Team 5280: IMAZ09.

Log in to facebook, go to the groups link on the right side, search the group name, and there you go!

More to come on the Vegas adventure tomorrow.

Pre Las Vegas Half Marathon

It's only 13.1 miles, right? HAHAHAHAHA! I am way underprepared for this srace technically, but here we are--9 hours from it. My goal is to finish. My first half was under 2 hours, so I know I can do it. I have eaten so much food today that I think I will still b full tomorrow. Seriously under prepared. :)

Well, I am off to sleepy time to get a few hours of sleep. I never sleep well the night before.

Brandy

Elated

I have no triathlon news to report other than I haven't been doing anything tri related for a few days. Well, not true, just not in the training sense. I picked up my orthotics today (with a high tech plantar faciitis tube!). And work, awww yes--the engine that makes triathlon work for me. This is a ridiculously expensive sport.

But I don't know anyone, who is ultra cool, that can resist the powers of tri!

I have to get to bed. I just want to give a shout out to all of my new tri friends!! I can't wait to meet you all, train, and drink beer together after IMAZ09!

I KNOW WHY I TRI!!! I have to if I want to be with people of like personalities (OCD!)

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Gotta read this! What a wonderful spirit. I am CONSTANTLY amazed that such talented people are human, and nice, but mostly the kind of people that you could, technically, sit down with and have a beer---if you could seriously ever find them in a bar, right?

http://www.chrissiewellington.org/blog/#
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PS-I changed my hair to blonde to match my personality. ;)

Sacrifice starts with tofu "pudding"

Today was a good food day. Sucky on the water, but food was pretty good. Quiznos is my new favorite place to eat. The traditional on wheat with red wine vinaigrette instead of ranch. But I think I will change it to turkey on wheat with tomatoes, lettuce, salt, pepper and that vinaigrette dressing. It's the dressing that has me coming back! I seriously want to eat it on everything.

So...my workout today. Run (and walk against the wind) 1 mile, slowly, to warm up for Crossfit. Do the "300" workout: 50 pullups, 50 box jumps, 50 clean and press (with kettlebell), 50 floor wipers (don't ask--but I LOVE them!), 50 ring dips(for god's sake these are EXCRUCIATING!!) and 50 deadlifts. (Took my 19 minutes and I scaled the pull ups).THEN we did the front squat thruster workout, warmup with light weights for 10-5-5-3-3 reps with varying weights. THEN we go into MAX weight for one rep, 5 times. I got up to 95 pounds, but my squat was a little shallow. Pat helped me with my breathing and focusing.......that word makes me laugh....focus? Me?

So then I went to Safeway, got a carb bar (who cares what it is--it's carbs, right? Triathletes eat from four food groups--carbs, protein, fat and "whatever in the F I want if I'm training 10-20 hours a week!". I am not in the last group, unfortunately! Everything I eat still settles on my ass. Oh, and pencils. I was determined to stay on the bike at the gym. So I did sudoku for 37 minutes straight. I kept my heartrate around 134-135, with the occasional sprint thrown in to get the blood flow back to my legs. My ass only went numb towards the end.

I followed the bike up with a 12 min/mile jog for half a mile. Of course stretching is the key to being able to walk after this, so I did lots of it.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS STORY!!! TOFU PUDDING!!!! I'm on a mission to lose 25 pounds that I gained back from when I was a rocking size 4 and I LOVED it!! I love food but dislike cooking. So...I was looking for simple recipes that I could cook so I could stomach healthy food again. I found the zone book, with recipes. One of the recipes was for Creamy Orange Dessert, or something deceiving like that. Unflavored gelatin (you wouldn't believe the protein is this!), fat free plain yogurt, TOFU (gross)--and extra firm (isn't that how we rate boobs?), orange extract and peeled mandarin oranges. Long story short--the "pudding" turned out, is tolerable, and I will eat it in place of OREOS if it means I will drop weight to run, bike and swim faster. The sacrificing has begun--with tofu.

Oh, the most important part of my day--the back doctor!! After getting my SI joint shot up with Cortisone to determine if my SI joint is being a huge pain in the ass, literally, the doctor confirmed tonight that he thinks it's the SI joint. So guess what? MORE FREAKING PT for me. I see my PT more than my husband almost. Good thing she's wonderful!

Good night.