Week 3 Recap - This Isn't Easy!

There's two things that aren't easy: doing triathlon training combined with Insanity workouts, AND trying to blog about it during the busiest time of the year at work!

"Oh sure, I'll just plow out a few paragraphs each day at work when I have time." Pfft - silly me! I barely have time to eat lunch! Which, by the way, I've been saving lots of money and eating healthier by bringing everything I need for lunch at the start of the week (breakfast too, for that matter). I have a loaf of bread, PB & J, fruit, granola bars, and yogurt. What else do I need?

Also, let me share a trick that's been helping me. My weakness is chips. Whether it be Doritos or Pringles or Frito Lay, if it's salty and has starch, I want it! So the vending machine at work has always been a huge temptation. Then I started employing the same tactic that I did when I quit smoking - make yourself unable to get your vice. When I quit smoking, I got rid of all lighters and matchbooks in the house and vehicles. To keep me away from the vending machine, I don't take any change or dollar bills to work with me! It all goes in the vacation jar at home before I leave for work. Simple, easy trick, and I'm saving money in the process!

So what happened this past week? Are you stalling? No, I'm not. I had a pretty good week. But in the interests of time, I'm not going to bore people with all the mundane details of each workout. I can proudly say I did every workout last week of both Insanity and my triathlon training. On some days that added up to 3 workouts, but I've been keeping after it. Yesterday (Sunday) was a great recovery day. The only physical thing I did was go for about a 2-mile walk. That's it. Ate well except for some 'real' bacon Sunday morning for breakfast. What's interesting is that I genuinely missed the taste of turkey bacon - the regular bacon was way too salty and fatty.

Body is feeling good. No major aches or pains to report. I have to keep remembering to take my multi-vitamin on the weekends, and my chondroitin during the week. I don't want runner's knee acting up again!

This morning I had a long speed swim, nearly an hour with about 10 minutes of rest/recovery during intervals. Total length swam was 2700yds, a new personal best. Each day I'm learning that it's best to start out easy and gradually build up to race/performance speed, especially early in the morning when your whole body isn't warmed up yet.

Did a fitness test for Insanity tonight and saw improvement across the board. After the fitness test I ate dinner (fish and asparagus) but when I came back to do Cadio Interval, I felt some weird tightness along the bottom inside of my left foot, and it extended up the back of my left leg. I didn't like the feel of it AT ALL and don't want to encounter any setbacks, so I shut it down for the night.

I'm not going to allow myself to feel guilty about it, either. It's the smart thing to do, it's the right thing to do. Why risk an injury and something that could set me back days or weeks instead of taking one night off? It's not like I won't be back tomorrow, kicking Insanity's butt again (or is it the other way around?). Besides, I'll have an hour tomorrow morning on the bike, and it'll be nice to have fresh legs for a change.

That'll have to do it for now. I'll get you up to speed next week on how things have been - hopefully I'll have my new tri bike by then as well!