Hey it's June and summer has arrived in Florida. We went from drought to rain forecast every day. I'm glad for the plants because they're looking a little rough, but it's going to be hot and sticky out all the time, and that's no bueno.
Oh, you aren't here to listen to me complain about the summer here? Yes, I have shit to talk about on the fitness front too. I think I already talked enough about the triathlon and my disappointing finish, it's a little more disappointing because there's no way I can do the Tarpon tri this year, so it's going to be one and done this season. I would talk about the race I ran on Sunday, but that falls into June, so let's just say it felt a little like redemption. Otherwise, to be honest, May felt like a complete let down. I seem to be gaining weight, had a bad race and overall felt like I was stuck in neutral all month.
No sense in beating around the bush, lets get at it. What were my goals for May:
- 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
Weight Results:
- Starting Weight: 224.6
- Ending Weight: 225.6
Exercise Info:
- Number of rides: 73
- Time on exercise: 27:12:46
- Distance on rides: 408.54
- Number of runs: 1
- Distance running: 3.11
- Number of walks: 10
- Time walking: 3:16:18
- Distance walking: 6.61
- Number of rows: 0
- Time rowing: 0
- Distance Rowing: 0
- Number of swims: 1
- Distance swimming: .25m
- Weight Workouts: 6
I really don't know where to begin with last month. I guess I'll just start with the things I did well at. I hit my reduced mileage target, which was a nice change for this year. Like I've said before, I focused on some different things this year and it's showing, and not in a good way. To address that, I am planning on doing more "longer" workouts, and more endurance exercises, so I hope to see a little more distance. I also got all the Apple and challenge goals accomplished, and I've been fairly consistent on the weight training. I still take a lot of bootcamps, mostly because it's what they have in the AM, but I am trying to take the Spring into the gym program on Mondays when it's live.
So what's failing me? Let me start with the elephant in the room, and that is me. My weight has been creeping up pretty consistently the past 2 months. Maybe it's muscle, maybe not. Either way, it's going to stop this month because I know I haven't been eating as well as I wanted to. I ended the month up a bit, made something delicious and almost started June at 230 pounds. . I've also ignored the rower and now the reflect. I didn't swim, I didn't run and I only walked because Apple forced me to. I performed poorly at Dunedin and it just made my month seem awful. Not much more to say other than I haven't spent all this time and effort to piss it all away...
Since I don't want to dwell on that, what is going to be different this month? Glad you asked because I'm goign to be a little more firm on goals:
- Get closer to 215 again
- Ride 350 miles - I would have set it for 400 but we're going to VA for a little bit, and that's going to mean no bike.
- June Apple Fitness challenge
- Run at least every other week
- Walk at least twice a week
- Perfect Month in Apple
- Gold in my June challenge
- Continue weekly weight workouts
- All the bonus points in #mc54
- Weather permitting - Global running day challenge
So what's changed? Well, instead of maintaining my weight I am going to actively try to lose a few pounds again. My weight has crept up to just around 230 and that seems a little much for me. Yeah maybe it is because of the birria grilled cheese etc... but I think there's a lot of junk food going in my mouth and I need to stop eating poorly to figure out if I've gained muscle or fat. I'm going to keep the bike target a little lower because we're going to be away, and I don't want to be bike focused up there. Since we're driving I might bring some bike gear, but I'm going to plan on more floor exercising and walking. We'll see. I'd like to go over 400 again, but I'd prefer to be realistic and then surprise myself.
The rest are pretty routine. A little more run/walk focus coming on this month. I have a race on July 4th and I'd like to perform well in it. Yes we're going to see Stick Figure the night before, but I'll try to behave at the show and get some sleep. Plus there is Global running day and the Apple challenge is walk/run focused, so I'll need to get a thirteen more 2+ mile workouts in.
On a final note, let me say June started better than I expected. Although my weight went up again, we'll talk about that in a month, I ran a 5k on Sunday and I did ok. Decent pace. Not great, but far better than expected and no pain. Yes, I'm sore today, but that's ok. Should be fine for Wednesday night, and with that I've said enough. Talk soon!
