Just kidding .. I Need This $h1t!

Well, that was quick!  It became immediately clear this week that NO WHERE ELSE (and oh dear lord, clearly no ONE else), can handle as much planning and talking about running as I need to be able to do in order to actually talk myself into "doing" running. LOL!  I need to keep my self accountable as I formulate plans.  So it looks like weeeeeee'rreeeee baaaaaaack. (for now?).  Because I am a Type A, plan crap type of person.  😂  And it gets EVEN WORSE when I am not actually running.  LOL.

SooOOOooo ...

Tentative 2017 Calendar

January

• Run Lead 1/2 - Back of 9s (stupid, but I didn't plan on November / December, so now I'm kinda locked in).
• Half Training Log - In Progress
• 1/1 – Resolution Run (1 mi) - Complete!
• 1/8 - Lifetime Indoor TRI - Cancelled. :(
• 1/23 – Peachtree City (15k) - Registered

February

• 2/5 - New Orleans Rock & Roll 1/2 - Registered
• 2/ – Hearts & Soles (5k) -

March

• 3/5 - ACFB Hunger Walk -
• 3/25 – Atl Women’s (5k) - No
• 3/ - Publix 1/2 - No

April

• 4/9 - Peachtree Intraining Begins

May

• Insert race here!
• May – Track & Field events

June

• 6/ – Braves Country (5k)
• 6/25 - Allatoona Sprint Triathlon

July

• Independence Day – PRR
• 7/30 - Fall Full Training Begins

August

• 8/12 – Virginia Highlands 5K
• 8/19 - Atlanta’s Finest (5k)

September

• Sizzler

October

• 10/08 - Chicago Marathon
• 10/23 – 10 Miler

November

• 11/3 – Espirit De She (5k)
• 11/ - NYC marathon - ?
• 11/24 - Thanksgiving – Atlanta half

December

• 12/ - Virginia Highlands

Spring Schedule
I need to get consistent again. Thinking of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, with Sunday an option if I miss one of those days during the week (likely). Using the 1/2 Publix schedule, as a lead, but running NOLA, which is a month ahead. Not adding weeks to the plan though; just winging it. Don't want to get hurt ramping back up. Maybe PR ready in time for 1/2 Publix, but more likely won't chase the under 2 until early summer. (before Chicago this time, lol).

Monday options so far are Greenway Alpharetta, Back on My Feet, or LA F at Ainsley. (all AM). Leaning toward LA F.  I'm most likely to do treadmill runs in the dead of dark cold winter.  But if the triplets stay consistent on Mondays, Greenway as back up.

Tuesday, I think I am heading back to Publix Alpharetta PM, either with Michele, Endurance House, or Lifetime. 

Wednesday - speed work, Active Oval PM.

Thursday - Rest / Cross (most likely swim while Emily is at cheer 7-9 PM at Cumming LA F).

Friday - AM Riverside

Saturday - In-training

Sunday - biking and/or logging missed work outs at Riverside.


Resolution Run Race Recap
Distance - 1 mile
Avg Pace - 8:45

The great thing about having taken a break is that the pressure is absolutely off, and I am having fun again. The bad news is that I don't have a whole lot of patience for taking steps backwards, or taking baby steps forward.  But to run under 9 for a first mile in weeks felt great.  On two hours of sleep and 5 Sex on the Beaches as fuel, a miracle. :)  BUT ... I didn't skip it, even though I *really* wanted to, so clearly, brain's willpower is fighting for control.  Yippy! 

Race pictures were eeewww, so here's a picture of what I was doing right before the run. ;) 

Nutrition
Back on the Weight Watcher bus!  Day 1 (Jan 2) went great.  Just tracking for one day made me feel like I can do this.  That weekly weigh-in is a motivator.  And so is giving myself presents when I lose.  This week, I have an Amazon gift card burning a whole in my purse.  (Thanks, Caton!)  If I lose, I want to upgrade my Fitbit to one that can be worn during swimming.  Excited.


This Week's Schedule

Monday
Distance - 2.25
Avg Pace - Run/Walk; didn't care

I also did 75 crunches, and 10 minutes of swim.

Tuesday
Distance - 4 miles (run/walk) home treadmill
Avg Pace - Oh lawd.

WW: Its 4:30 and all is going great on the WW points front!  I can't wait for my first weigh in!

75 crunches.  Abs are already crying and screaming for the week. Man, they're wimps!

Wednesday
Distance - 4 miles @ Westside group run

Thursday - Sunday

Sucked back into snowpocalypse-induced loserville. :/  Resolving to restart next week.  Again.

Weigh In  - Week 1 (Sunday, 11 AM)
-1.6!  I'll take it. *^_^*

Coming Up
Indoor Triathlon!
Last Year:

No idea why blog is rotating this image.  Here's the skinny .. Points were allocated based on rank among open participants. I did 10 swim lengths and got 2 swim points, (which means I was 2nd to last, the best swimmer did the most laps of 16 open W participants (like 26 lengths), so received 16 points .. got it?), I biked 6.4 miles, and got 3 bike points, (3rd to last) ran 2.14 miles and got 13 run points (16 still being highest, so top 4). Total - 18 points, final rank, 4th from last.

I had hoped to best each of these.  Now it will just be a surprise.  :) I do plan to push myself more than I did at the 1 miler.  Its been a bit since I really tried to "make it hurt" even a little.  Hard to finish strong when you have nothing to finish strong for.  But with this one, since the first and only time I did this before, I was also a newbie, there is a possibility for just beating myself.  So we'll see.  Excited to TRI. *^_^*

UPDATE: Cancelled due to icy road conditions in Alpharetta area. Womp, womp.