PM: 5 first run back after 2.5 weeks. Felt decent considering. It will get worse in the coming days though I know through experience.
also did the ab workout from p90x. Oh god. It wasn't so much pain that was the problem as most ab workouts are, but my abs simply gave out in the middle of the last exercise. And then for the rest of the night I actually could not lift my upper body with my abs. I had to grab something or roll over (which hurt my obliques) to get up lol.
AM: 5miles followed by a light breakfast then 2hrs pretty hard cycling, not sure how far but was probably avging 18mph. The run was so slow. I felt like an 80y/o. Just gotta know that it will get better soon. Then it will get worse with the building fatigue of mileage about 2-3wks in. Then it will get better again 4-6wks in and thereafter.
PM: 5miles
Note: Well, ive been off this for a while now and haven't been great about running. In fact until yesterday I didn't run at all for a full 2.5 weeks. I did bike, lift weights, and swim some. For a while I was thinking about getting into triathlons but since have decided that I neither have the time nor the money for that yet. Maybe when I am an attending and fully control my time I'll try that. Ill still be young enough (32) at least for endurance stuff. Anyway, my weight is finally back to what it was before I started dieting in the spring (176... ouch). But some of that gained weight is muscle as I have been doing p90x recently and I gain muscle like a fiend. So I am back to calorie counting and bought a book called "race weight" and am gonna follow some of its recommendations. One thing for sure is that im going to eat more frequently in smaller amounts than I have done in previous diets. Hopefully this will shunt more of my calories to recovery and I will experience less fatigue and hunger than other times I have dieted. I know I can successfully lose weight. I have done it twice before. This time I hope that I can do it healthier (but not necessarily slower) and that might help me keep it off in the long run. (pun not intended)
