I Cheated

What a difference a week makes. Training this week was a total of 2 hours shorter than last week and I could tell. Last weekend involved a 3 hour Saturday followed up with a 2 hour Sunday. I got through it, but I was beat! After this weekend's workouts I'm feeling much more energized and attribute that to 2 different reasons - the main reason being because I didn't do quite as much, but also because I think all this training is paying off and I may actually be getting better/faster/stronger. Let's hope this way of thinking continues. This past week was a backdown, "recovery", week and now it's on to 3 more weeks of increasing mileage so at least I'm going into it with a healthy dose of confidence.



So, I've cheated a couple of times the past couple of weeks. First, I jumped on the scale mid-month. I know, criminal, right!?! After a couple of pretty intense workouts I was curious as to how I was doing considering what January's weight-loss results were and I succumbed to the temptation. I won't post results, but let's just say things are still moving in the right direction. The second cheat was just as dramatic, I had a Mountain Dew. This wasn't because I "needed" one, but again was just curious. I had gone 5+ weeks without and wanted to see if it still tasted the same or what I thought of it at this point. To be honest, it didn't taste as good and certainly didn't make me crave another one.

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Yesterday the boys had their annual Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby. This is Conner's last year so he wanted to do well. Last year he went for Best Design (sacrificing speed) and ended up winning that award so this year he went for speed again to try to qualify for districts, something he did his first year. Last year Devon finished 5th in the pack and was able to advance to the next level. After an afternoon of racing, 72 heats w/ 3 cars per heat (thankfully, they never went head to head in the same heat), the results were in. With the top 5 going to Districts both boys knew they had a decent chance of that because they each dominated their heat races (results are based on each car's average time after 6 runs). Without further adieu, Conner ended up in 6th place and Devon got 5th. Devon gets to move on, but this might have been it for Conner. He has the slightest of chances of still getting to race though if someone in the top 5 can't make it as he'd be the first alternate. He took it well, wasn't too jealous of his younger brother. Here are their cars (the orange one is D's, the black is C's)-

I Need Jillian Michaels

28,650+14:25+8:10=326.7. Seriously, it does.

Remember in my previous post how I said I was looking forward to Tuesday because it was weigh-in day? Well, let's just say I won't win any Biggest Loser contests. I dropped a whopping 2 lbs. 2!! I'm doing the workouts, honest I am! Actually, it's not that big of a deal. I was expecting to see a lower weight, but I'm feeling better and noticing physical changes. I'm chalking up the lack of weight loss to the belief I'm gaining a little muscle mass. I'll take that trade-off I guess. Muscle will make me faster, right?

So, the above equation. Figure out how that makes sense? Alright, here's how - those are my January totals for my workouts:
28,650 is how many yards I've swum. This equates to 16.3 miles. An argument could be made that this could be even longer since I've been doing a majority of my swims in a pool that's measured in meters instead of yards.
14:25 is the number of hours:minutes I've spent on my bike. In past races I usually average 20-21 mph. I don't have anything hooked up that tracks my actual trainer miles so I'm just using an average of 18 mph. At that rate it equates to 259.5 miles.
8:10 is the hr:min I've spent running. Between the treadmill and counting laps on the track this is pretty close to 50.9 miles.
So, 16.3 miles swimming, 259.5 miles biking and 50.9 miles running equals 326.7. Pretty obvious, huh?

Makes me wonder how many miles I'll have to do if I want to lose 5 lbs in 1 month. Yikes!!!