I am about to do my second oly this weekend. The first was one was a little short and the bike was downhill quite a bit. I did well because of that until the run. I had not run at all since the half marathon and my stress fracture.
The good news is that it healed and I have run a bit since, but my overall training has dropped off a bit. I am fearful I won’t finish this real oly in under 3 hours.
wish me luck
Go to nearly any restaurant website and you can find nutritional information on their menu items. Not Applebees! Are these bafoons in the dark ages? The shoot extra fat in everything and don’t want to admit it? Here is what they say about it on their website in their FAQ:
We do not provide nutritional information on other Applebee’s® items, except where required by law.
By other they are talking about weight watchers points items they tell you the points. So no they don’t really give you any help unless you are doing the WW points. Oh but they will be happy if required by law, isn’t that special. I have a solution. Never eat there. Then it won’t matter.
That is my solution.
Never Eat At Applebees.
Oh and for anyone still following my epoc journey I think I have a stress fracture in my foot from the half marathon, so I will be swimming and biking only for at least a month. I ran 4 miles the last two Wednesdays and by mile 3 I got the pain back in my foot and had to walk/run and adjust my gait to make it go away. I read up on stress fractures and found that mysymptoms indicate a mild stress fracture. which requires 3 to 8 weeks to heal. Since my foot doesnt hurt except when I run and the day or two after I can solve my problem by not running for a 3 weeks and then start out by running 2 miles a few days before upping it to 3 or 4 as a test to see if its healed. Wearing my running shoes all the time is helping my foot to feel better too.
It’s terribly embarrasing to pull on my new speedo trunks and waltz out into the public. I realize that people don’t really care, they may notice and think something but they really don’t care if some dude is wearing a suit he has no business wearing, or at least they think that. They may shake their head and think why do people do stuff like that. Well, for this case anyway I have an answer.
I swam a test 500 meters for time this weekend since I didn’t properly measure my time on my triathlon last week. I got a confirmation that swam my fastest time yet. I did the test in 8:55. This was after my 1 hour bike class that I like to swim before not after because it wears me out so much. So I got a better result in me if I start rested.
I set a goal a while back to swim 500 meters in under 10 minutes for my sprint triathlons this year. I beat 9 minutes on the first one. My goal, after I got 10 minutes in this swim was to extend it out to 1000 meters and 1500 meters at the same pace which is the length of my two longer triathlons. I think I am there now, again just from changing my swim suit. I will have to run a test next weekend for that.
I often train with a couple of people that are doing the Ironman Couer d’ Alene coming up in two weeks now. When I started swimming back in September, I was in the slow lane because they didn’t have a bumbling idiot lane. Then I worked my way up to earning the right to take up space in the slow lane. All the while these other two were in the fast lane. There were a couple of times new people came to class and I got bumped to the fast lane, but I had to work my butt off to try and not get lapped in a set of 200. Eventually I became a permanent fixture in the fast lane, though as little as two weeks ago I was struggling to not get lapped in sets of 400. What this means of course is that they could swim 7 laps faster than I could swim 8. My “100%” time was just dipping below 50 seconds a lap which means they were just below 44 seconds a lap. The last two workouts I was nipping at their toes so they let me pass and I was finishing sets of 150 a good half length in front of them and not only that but I was able to maintain a pace fast enough to be about even with them as we finish up. (usually as we finish up a 3600 yard workout I was trailing off and not a threat to keep up with anyone.) So I am now the fastest person in the fast lane (only because truly fast people are not showing up mind you) which is something I would have found hard to believe if you had told me back in September, or even a month ago for that matter.
All of this thanks to my new speedo. So yeah, when you see me and think, “why is that dude wearing a suit like that?” the answer is the same if you see me experimenting with shaving all my chest hair off (no I haven’t tried it yet and likely wont for a while). Because I can go much faster.
