Holiday Training Update

I've done some good training lately. Let's see if I can recall it all in order to post about it!

On the 22nd (the date of my last post), I swam for about 35 minutes. My H got frustrated with his swimming and quit early and in the midst of that I lost track of my laps. I'm pretty sure I did 11 and possibly 12 laps (I try to underestimate).

On the 23rd, I ran: 2.25 miles (10/20 run/walk).
On Christmas eve I got up and went for a swim by myself mid-morning. I kept track and I know that I did 12 laps. I was comfortably swiming a full lap without rest, so I feel like I am definitely making progress. Then I got home and did another PowerFit workout. This time, I did the back, biceps & thighs workout. I liked it! That afternoon, we took the dogs for a 1.5 hour hike - man did they love that! My legs were wiped out by the end of the day.

On Christmas day, we did a 25 mile ride. I had NO spark in my legs the whole time. The good news was that my legs were no worse off at the end of the ride than they were at the beginning. The bad news was that my neck, shoulders and back were bothering me...I really need to get more time in the saddle to better condition all those muscles again. While I was no faster at all (still a sucky strength to weight ratio going on!), I was breating much easier on the longer hills. The swimming and biking are clearly helping my cardio conditioning...so that is a major plus.

I took the 26th off and then on Sunday, the 27th, we took the dogs for another hike. I was scheduled to run, but I blew it off. I just had no energy!

Yesterday was going to be my next swim, but since I blew off my run on Sunday, I opted to delay the swim so that I could run and get back on schedule. I did another 2.25 mile run in 10/20 run/walk.

This is what my schedule looks like for the rest of the week:

Monday - run (done)
Tuesday - swim
Wednesday - run & PowerFit workout
Thursday - swim & core workout
Friday - run & PowerFit workout
Saturday - bike ride?
Sunday - swim & run

I am really enjoying the fact that I am starting to see some progress. It's so hard to get moving again after a time away, but the nice part is that gains are really, really aparent when you are this out of shape! ;-) Now...if only I could get my eating better under control. I was doing pretty well last week and then let Kringle get in my way. I managed to restrict my eating of it to Christmas day, but there was also a small blizzard consumed on Christmas eve and those two things set off the sugar cravings again. This week, my goal is to cut out sweets/sugar and get that craving monster under control again. Once I do that, I'll pick another item to work on. I think, that for once in my life, this step by step progress might actually work! I'm already done with diet coke (and all sodas)...so that's a start. Sugar and desserts are next. After that, I'll probably work on getting the veggie count up.