Day 49 - Sun Mar 17th - Weigh In

Today I weighed 168.2 not bad for being down at a wedding where the temptation was to eat everything in sight.

Day 48 - Sat Mar 16th - San Diego

One of the reasons to train for a triathlon is so I can keep fit and run with my kids and cousins. Today was a payoff after 48 days of work. In the morning, I met at 7am with my cousin Graham Orme who had already ran 8 miles before I met up with him while prepare for a sub 3 hour marathon. He is the one that ran the Tough Mudder race that I have no interest in. Look up the link at http://toughmudder.com/ and see what it is. Here is a preview -> Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie

My daughter Maria was also going for a run with us. I surprised myself and them with a 7:30 first mile time. I couldn't keep it up for the 4 miles like they could, but it was nice to at least be in their league. 

Graham took the picture of Maria and I coming down a San Diego trail and then going back up the same one later. I am wearing my favorite workout shirt - a CDA Triathlon shirt that was too big for one of my kids in 2010. I want to earn my own this year.

 

Day 47 - Friday Mar 15th - Travel Day

I realize that today was not a day to train but to travel and be with relatives prior to Derek & Kat Orme's wedding tomorrow in the San Diego temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

Got up at 3am to get to the Spokane airport by 4am for a 5am flight to Seattle, 7am flight to San Diego, car rental by 10:30am, pick up of relatives by 11, drop off to wedding showers, travel to beach to see sons and cousins in a little beach volleyball. 

Then had a new client meeting in Mission Bay San Diego prior to the wedding dinner. Like I said no time today for training, but I was prepared if there was a moment to do so.

Day 45 - Mar 13 - Outdoor Run

I ran the same four mile loop today after our swim lesson with Laurin at the Kroc Center. Julienne has got the hang of it. I am still not breathing right. With fins on I occasionally feel that I am swimming okay, but without them on I am still floundering.  It will take some determination to get this down. I am glad that I have coaches.

Day 43 - Mar 12th - Outdoor Run

Running on the AlterG treadmill at Physio One has allowed my left leg ski injury to heal without having to support all my body weight.

I ran outside today for 4 miles with Julienne . My left leg was no longer the bottle neck point. I think it is now my lungs and breathing. It seems that I just get so tuckered out that I feel I want to stop but know that the CDA Triathlon is over six miles. I am not even running that distance yet. After running on the AlterG and using the machine being able to reduce my weight by 10% to 20% to 30% I feel like I am on Jupiter when I fun at full body weight on the road. Yes I have lost 10 pounds, but I feel that it would be so much easier to run with more endurance if I lost another 15 to 20 pounds and got down to 150 to 155 pounds. I now know what it feels like to run at that weight and it is exhilarating. Something I have not felt for many years.

Day 42 - Mar 11th - Fitness Coach

Melissa van Wyngaardt and I had our second appointment today. which meant no more talk, just workouts. She wrote out a plan for sets of two exercises with different muscles so that I could go directly from one to another. They are to help build my core. Some of them look very easy and of course are surprisingly hard because they involve balance. I find that I can balance better with my right side than with my left. She suggested I work out on these sets 2-3x a week and is planning to give me another group next week.

Day 41 - Mar 10th - Weigh In

I was excited to step onto the scales today. I weighed 169.8. First time under 170 for awhile and my body fat has gone down to 24.5%. I'll take both of those numbers as good progress reports.