I actually forgot it was the end of the month

With all my comments about time flying etc... I actually forgot today was the 31st of the month.  Hard to believe it eh?  It's been an ok week, felt a little run down yesterday, but I feel a bit better today.  I finally started running again and it was much better than I thought it would be.   I didn't go that far, but I ran the last mile or so of my walk on Monday night.  I've been feeling some knee and hip pain when I walked over the weekend so you might understand why I was worried, but I felt fine afterwards.   Go figure.   I walk at a leisurely pace with Merinda and feel pain, when I go alone I'm fine and I can run.  I suspect I'm still recovering a bit from the TDE.

I think I had a pretty good month, I clearly didn't hit all these, and the TDE affected some of my plans, but let's review July's goals shall we?

• Maintain weight
• Ride 500 miles -  Outdoor rides when possible.
• Weekly run and walk exercise. 
• One open-water swim, preferrably two.   Minimum of 1/2 mile distance. 
• After workout stretch. 
• Row workouts until the triathalon training kicks in.
• Continue bootcamp workouts
• Perfect Month in Apple
• Apple July exercise goal
• Gold in my July challenges
• All the bonuses in #mc42
• Finish St. Pete pier run

Weight Results:

• Starting Weight: 220.7
• Ending Weight: 215.5

Exercise info:

• Number of rides:  95
• Time on exercise: 36:01:20
• Distance on rides: 550.98
• Number of runs: 1
• Distance running: 4.14 
• Number of walks: 7
• Time walking:  3:17:48
• Distance walking:  9.32
• Number of rows: 2
• Time rowing:  41:37
• Number of swims: 0
• Distance swimming: 0

Results:

This month was a lot different than I remembered.   I suppose I was a little involved in finishing the TDE and then looking forward to the Triathalon to remember that I was on track all month.  I did take a little break from runnign after the race, and that's normal, I'm not really a runner anymore, and then had a cycling challenge so that dominated my focus.   I'm feeling pretty peppy today, so lets talk about what I did accomplish.   I hit all my goals this month except for the swimming, sorry not sorry but the ocean is gross hot and I didn't want to.  The weekly walk/run, I have no excuses here.   I took a break from running and then lost sight of the walking until I realized I was going to miss the Apple monthly challenge and picked that up.   Finally, I lost focus on the rower.   I was catching up stages on Mondays and started my Tri training on Monday.   I'll pick it back up because I need some bootcamps, but it's going to be getting a little break after this month.

Overall, it was a great month.   I exceeded my expectations on the race, finished the TDE, set some PB's along the way, weight is staying low, have been stretching religiously, and am feeling a lot stronger from the bootcamps.  

With that said, let's look forward to August:

• Maintain weight
• Ride 500 miles -  Outdoor rides when possible especially for the distance training for the triathalon.  I know it's hot outside, but suck it up buttercup.
• Minimum of one run per week.   Try to stick to the training plan as long as my knees hold up.
• Start swimming per your plan.   Try to get in the ocean twice this month.
• Continue after workout stretching. 
• Continue bootcamp workouts. 
• Perfect Month in Apple
• Apple August exercise challenge
• Gold in my August challenges
• All the bonuses in #mc43 and start #mc44
• Finish at least one, if not both, of the virtual 5k's I signed up for. 

So we didn't go to Virginia this month, we're going up around labor day instead, so I'll have a full month at home to prep for the race and that should make these goals pretty easy to hit.    The only one that I think might be tough is the bootcamp bonus for MC43.   I don't know what the Apple goal for August is, so that also remains to be seen.

Anyway, I've been posting a lot, and have a work call coming up so we'll talk soon...