Week 5 - Thing 1 and Thing 2

I started this week out feeling drained.  After the race on 1/1 the Garmin watch said I needed 68 hours of rest before the next workout.  I've seen silly numbers before, but this one was a bit extreme.  Over the next few days it kept getting worse.  I got sick.  I slept a lot and by the beginning of this week I started to feel some energy coming back.  The Garmin numbers, which I don't really trust, also started coming down so I took that was a good sign as well.  I might not trust the numbers, but I'm happy to give them credit when they help fuel my confirmation bias.  My body was coming around fine and then a couple of things happened on Wednesday

Thing #1 - I woke up at 12am and knew I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep.  I gave up pretty quick and went to work.  I was in my cube by 1am and it actually was a wonderfully productive morning.  It may have helped that the office has an unlimited supply of free drinks and snacks and I may have ingested a medically inappropriate amount of Monster Energy Drink.  I like caffeine well enough, but I'm not normally an energy drink kind of guy.  At 3am when I'm cranking out work and riding a wave of productivity? I'll have another, thank you very much.  Ultimately, this late night early morning work binge led to a missed 90 minute bike ride and spin class.  No big deal.  I probably needed the break anyway.

Consequence of Thing #1?  I left the office at 2pm in the afternoon.  It was too late to get my ride in, so what else was there to do?  Go start a blog.  Yep.  This whole tri2bike.com thing came to be because I left work early high on caffeine with a few hours of nothing to do.  I'm sorry world.  I won't let it happen again.

Thing #2 - My wife and I went to a Body Pump class together in the evening.  It went really well.  Damn, those things are a great mix of fun and hard.  I always walk out of there feeling simultaneously crushed and strong enough to take on the world.  On the way home, a friend called for some training advice.  We were having a great conversation, hands free of course, when we got home.   I drive a truck.  It's a big truck.  I'm a big guy (6'4") but the truck is big enough that even I sort of half hop down out of the driver's seat.  I was still on the phone with my buddy and had transferred the call off of bluetooth and over onto the handset when I got out of the truck and immediately fell on my left butt cheek.  Hard.  Really hard.  I started whimpering like a little baby.  I had basically thrown my body as hard as I could from a height of 4 feet off the ground targeting my glute.  I'm sorry glute.  I won't let it happen again.  I promise.

Consequence of Thing #2?  5 days later I still feel like I've been in a car accident.  I'm getting significantly better every day and it really hasn't interrupted my training much, but I have had to take some things a little easier.  The speed work on Thursday was a little less speedy.  Weight lifting on Thursday was a little less heavy.  etc.  etc.  I'm looking forward to getting back to the point where my soreness is earned from a nice hard workout instead of being a great big distracted clutz.  At least now I'm a little less likely to fall the next time I get out of the truck when there is slush on the ground.  Well, maybe I am, maybe I'm not.  Time will tell, but it does make me feel better to have spent $15 on a mat at Home Depot in an attempt to get through the next 40 weeks with a little less trauma in my life.


Weekly Stats

Swim - 8000 yards
Bike - 43 miles (life caused 2 missed bikes w/1 run replacement)
Run - 37 miles
Body Pump - 2 times
Heavy Lifting - 2 times
Duration - 14:11 hours

Physical Therapy - 4 times

Body Composition
Weight - 199.6
%Fat - 15.2
%Water - 56.5
%Muscle - 38.6

Overall Plan and Progress

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