Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Goodbye fat jeans

I’m feeling very agitated and frustrated on many levels. I think in order to get myself back into a proper mindset, I need to create some real structure in my life for the next few weeks before I go back home. The source of a lot of my unhappiness for sometime is my weights. Now yes logically I know that I am not super fat and yes, I know that weight should not equal happiness. But you know what in some ways for me it does and I am okay with that. I am up 10 lbs from where I should be and the reason is painfully obvious yet I can’t seem to curb it. I am eating like a crazed wilderbeast. There are no other excuses, I have got to get control and this was going on way before my dad died. I had to buy a new pair of jeans up a size so that I had something to wear that doesn’t feel like sausage casings! In order to get myself in check I need to get better about my workouts. If I am hitting my workouts, I am better at hitting my food, plus if I am hitting my workouts, that piece of pizza I just ate after already having my soup for lunch, won’t be so detrimental! I am going back home on the 23rd. I need to really focus on getting myself under control before I go there b/c no doubt being there will bring back on these intense emotions and if I am already sloppy, I’ll continue being sloppy. So, it helps me to write things out, here are the workouts I want to do between now and home. Plus, I made up my race schedule and am itching to start my really long runs. Here is what I am thinking.

Today – Excel in Cycling
Thurs 7 – AM 5 mile run, PM 2000 yard swim
Fri 8 – AM 5 mile run & weights, PM yoga DVD
Sat 9 – 14 mile run, 800 yd swim
Sun 10 – spin class, 1500yd swim

Mon 11– Excel in Cycling class
Tues 12- AM 4 mile run, 1500 yd swim
Wed 13– AM spin class & weights (PM meeting with financial planner)
Thurs 14 – AM 6 mile run (PM Vday dinner)
Fri 15– REST

Sat 16– 16 mile run, 800 yd swim
Sun 17 - spin class, 2000yd swim, 3 mile run

Mon 18 – Excel in Cycling
Tues 19 – 3 recovery mile, 1500 yd swim
Wed 20 – 2500 yard swim
Thurs 21- 18 mile long run (split 5-6 before work, 13-14 after, get out of the way before I go home)
Fri 22 – REST drive home
Sat 23 – (Home) 7 mile speed workout
Sun 24 – (Home) 2 mile run

If this doesn’t yield a few lbs lost, I’m in trouble!

5 comments:

Supalinds said...

If that training schedule doesn't produce your skinny jeans...well I just don't know, that wouldn't be right :)

The struggles of training...train hard, eat lots, train harder, eat more...at some point it will all come together!

Joy | Love | Chaos said...

Wow. You have almost 20 days of training, many of which are 2-fer days, and only 2 rest days! Wow. I'm sure I couldn't maintain that schedule! I'd wind up hurting myself half way through...but then again, I'm a major fan of rest days because they give me an excuse to catch up on all my tri/girlie mags!

Go for it!

triguyjt said...

good luck in keeping with the training sked and with curbing the food impulses.

putting it all out there will be motivating, i think

Josh Middleton said...

That routine should definitely tame the wilderbeast!

You're funny!

Side note - who are you voting for?

I would like to urge your fellow Ohio bloggy friends to vote for Hillary!

tracie said...

#1 YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

#2 Listen to your body and if it is telling you to speed up or slow down, do it!

#3 YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

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