We're finally getting into the warm weather here in Florida, so it's safe to say spring has arrived. Not quite at sauna levels, but we'll get that soon. While I'll miss the cooler weather, it will be nice when the pool warms up, seems like it's a little late this year.
With that, let's talk about exercise. As I already mentioned, I had a few 5k's in April and I'm glad those are behind me. My knees have been pretty sore and cranky for most of this month and I'm glad to give them a little time to recover, but I do have the Dunedin Triathalon soon, so they're going to get beat up again.
How did April turn out? As a reminder, these were my goals:
- Maintain my weight
- Ride 500 miles
- April Apple challenge
- Perfect Month in Apple
- Gold in my April challenge
- All the bonuses in #mc52
- Swim at least twice this month
- Weekly weight or row workout
- Weekly swim workout
- Two outdoor bike rides
- Walking on the weekends where there's no 5k
And my results:
Weight Results:
- Starting Weight: 217.1
- Ending Weight: 223.7
Exercise Info:
- Number of rides: 58
- Time on exercise: 22:16:31
- Distance on rides: 300.71
- Number of runs: 10
- Distance running: 10.46mi
- Number of walks: 9
- Time walking: 3:29:20
- Distance walking: 9.15
- Number of rows: 0
- Time rowing: 0
- Distance Rowing: 0
- Number of swims: 0
- Distance swimming: 0
- Weight Workouts: 24
Lots to unpack here. First off, I didn't do 24 weight workouts, some of those are instances where I got kicked and rejoined the class, however, I do weight training a couple of times per week. Since I'm doing more cross training and less spin, I use Apple Fitness as my data repository and it doesn't handle Echelon errors. Unfortunately Echelon doesn't do a good job of splitting different modalities out, so all I see is 111 workouts in a month. Regardless, this is the best I can do right now. In terms of my goals, I missed a few; my mileage target, outdoor bike rides, swimming, rowing and the bonuses in #mc52. I also seem to have put on a few pounds. Both Merinda and I think this is muscle gain, especially since I'm able to wear jeans that have a 34 waist, and I am noticably more muscular. I don't think I'm overeating, but I will be keeping my eye on it since I worked far too hard to lose the weight just to put it back on.
So what's going on? Well, I've been pretty sore this month. I think its the increased amount of weight training I'm doing and a batch of 5k's in a row but the reasons don't matter, what has happened is I've been trying to lower my overall training load to rest, recover and heal. As a result I do a lot less double or triple workout days, and when I do the extra workouts are weight training, or a walk, instead of extra cycling. The trip up to VA for Tyler ended up being a recovery weekend as all I did was walk/yoga and it was something I really needed. Factor in that most of the live rides I can do are bootcamps and that kills my distance. Swimming and outdoor rides are just me being lazy about it and not being home. I don't like to ride outdoors when Merinda's away but I really need to get outdoors on the bike.
I can't say April was a complete failure. Other than my sore legs I feel pretty good. My performance in classes has never been better and even if it takes me a little to get moving, my running performance has been solid. I like my overall training/fitness plan and believe it's helping me get stronger and fitter, and other than a few things I think this was a pretty good month. I can't give myself more than a B because I missed so many small things, but overall a really solid month.
With that said, what's on tap for May? I have to finish getting ready for Dunedin. I think I'm physically ready but I need to get loosened up for swimming, so I'll need a few trips to the pool. I also need to get a few longish outdoor bike rides in, just to get used to that, and probably one light run. I have just over two weeks to go and I feel like I'm behind, even if its nerves.
With all that, here are my May goals:
- Finish Triathlon with no walking during the run
- Maintain my weight
- Ride 300 miles
- May Apple Fitness challenge
- Perfect Month in Apple
- Gold in my May challenge
- Continue weekly weight workouts.
- Row post triathlon
A few noticable changes for this month. My main goal is definitely the Triathlon and ideally I'd like to set my PR in it, if I finish without walking I should be able to do that. The changes are a much lower mileage target and I removed swimming since I won't be swimming after the race for a while. I also know I won't hit all the goals in #mc53 so no point in putting that in. I'm sure I'll get plenty of exercise this month, but with race prep, taper down, race and recovery, I won't have energy to focus on max distance or specific Echelon classes. Depending on how my knees feel I might try to pick up a run once a week or every other week after the race.
Otherwise things are grand. Hope you all have a great month and we'll talk soon!
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