So I have finally started to develop the mentality needed to spend hours at the gym. I use to cringe everytime I had to be on the trainer for more than 10 min. I guess I just started to get anxious to get the next thing done and get to the race. Now I was able to keep my butt on the trainer for an hour with a 40 min. treadmill run after that. Very happy. Last week was a great training week. Didnt do my long bike on Sunday because I was studying and when I felt like studying I better do it. Got out saturday for a 6 mile run, would have went longer if it wasnt getting dark and my dog was thristy. So this week I will have 3 workouts because My exam is Friday and Saturday of this week and I am driving to Omaha on Thursday. Can't wait to go to the Zoo! I am actually really excited now to go workout at the Grubb YMCA. The people are great. Equipment still sucks, but the people there are now informed that I am doing an Ironman and they are more than willing to help me and out and give me encouragement to keep up the good work. They are working hard to keep the kids out of the swim lanes, moving spinner bikes all over and have towels ready when I walk in the door. It makes me feel like a I am a professional and a celebrity. Just waiting for the day when they want my autograph and for me to give a speech :) lol.
Since this weekend is my exam, I will not be working out and eating bad junk food. I am not thrilled about this since I have come so far in losing weight and eating good that I am scared that I will get that greasy food craving for the next month and wont be able to resist it.
Background Info: January of 2007, I weighed 175 pounds. I decided I needed to get my butt in gear. I recently got my dog and had started walking twice a day which wasnt enough for him so I started running. My friends are runners so they convinced me to do Dam to Dam. I thought ok. I finished the race, but was very sore. I think it was from the shoes I got when I was a sophomore in high school and the holes that were developing in the bottoms. Socks dont help. Little did I know, you were suppose to change your shoes 300-500 miles. I probably had 10,000 miles on them. My knowledge of shoes: they are good until a hole develops, then you get new ones, so I had about another 3 months left in them. Wrong. I bought new shoes and continued running. Then my friend told me he was training for a triathlon. How cool, I want to do that. What do I do? I had recently bought a mountain bike in April of 2007 and was doing that. I started biking to work and on the trails. Swimming...how do I do that? I took swim lessons, it cant be that hard to remember how to do it. Wrong! I thought the life guard was going to kick me out of the pool from flailling around so much and causing a distrubance. Never did make one length of the pool. I did the backstroke awhile and left while I was still alive. I left there thinking, I will never be able to do this. I need HELP. Luckily one of my friends is the aquatics director and was willing to teach me. I give her credit for my swimming. I am slow, but coming around. So now I can swim, bike, and run. So I signed up for the Walnut Creek Y tri team and the cyman triathlon. I was on my way. My boss also does triathlons and convinced me to get a tri bike. I went to rassys and bought one. One of the best purchases I have ever made. They say you should wait until you do your first tri before making any real purchases, but when you love training for it, I couldnt see any reason to wait. I think it helped to really get me loving it. The class was a great help and finished the race and loved it. I was hooked. So here I am now training for an Ironman. I am so excited. My race goals: 1st Finish, 2nd finsh under 15 hours, 3rd finish in 12 hours. I feel like I can finish in the 12 hours if I really work hard over the winter. I also really want to have a good finisher picture :) I really just want to make sure I finish and the time doesnt really matter. At the time it wont, but it will after. My half IM time this year at the Dutchman Half was 6:30. My swim was horribly slow (by 10 min), the bike was miserable (40 HUGE hills in 56 miles) and the run I felt great (should have run faster). Big problem was my nutrition, I double mixed powerade and thought I will drink half the bottle and then fill full with water. DO NOT DO THIS!!!! You will have GI problems. I think if I had not dont this I would have had a much better time. So now back to today, I weigh 130 pounds now. I still have about 5-10 more to go. Belly fat will not go away. I feel so much better about myself. On the downside, all this working out has not helped the sleeping problem, but that is what the pills are for :).
On a side note, hinking about what I am going to wear next year at the Ironman, I am trying to find a great pair of tri shorts. Anyone have suggestions? I want ones with no seams in the croch, not super sticky leg grippers and possibly a side pocket. Places around here just dont have much of a selection so I will have to order online.
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