All you can eat Stec

Had a very good week, for the week:

Exercise:
Three Lifting workouts
5+ hours of cardio per week that includes:
One swimming workout (1.2 miles) — 1 session
At least one hour of running (15.02 miles) — 3 sessions
At least one hour of biking (14.32 miles) — 1 session

Food:
Avg 2592 Calories per day
21% fat
46% Carbohydrate
32% Protein

I felt pretty good this week.  It was kinda a busy one but because I planned ahead and knew what I was going to do everything fell into place as far as workouts go.  I felt a little frustrated at the end of the week and completely changed how I measure — especially the hip, thigh, and waist measurements so I threw out all the data from previous measurements on those.  My measuring used to come from fitday.com, but because that site is unreliable and worthless I changed to the bodyspace measurements.  Oh, and my bicep measurement went down as well and I don’t know exactly why, but going forward lets see what happens.  I’m going to try get a few important measurements at least bi-weekly so I can see how to adjust my diet.

Alrighty, new week ahead so lets set some goals.  This week may be a little difficult - I’m meeting with the boss (VERY articulate, but thats another rant) on monday and I’m going to get up early and run or swim before the meeting.  Also going to a Queens of the Stone Age with the wifey on Wednesday night, so I gotta get that cardio in beforehand.  Because of the busy Monday and Wednesday I’m lifting T-Th-Sat and doing Cardio M-Sat.

Goals:
1.  Three Lifting workouts per week
2.  5+ hours of cardio per week that includes:
a.  One swimming workout
b.  At least one hour of running
c.  At least one hour of biking

Other Changes:
Going to drink more water. I’ve been hitting about a gallon a day — Going to go for a gallon and a half.

I busted it out this week — Ate right and met all 5 of the following goals:

1.  Three Lifting workouts per week
2.  5+ hours of cardio per week that includes:
a.  One swimming workout
b.  At least one hour of running
c.  At least one hour of biking

2h 40m of running — 15.8 miles (ran a NICE 10 miler with jake in the jogging stroller)
1h 46m of biking
1h 50m of weight lifting (3 sessons)
45 minutes of swimming (.8 miles lap swim)

Avg calories: 2499
Fat 23/Carb 43/Protein 33

Avg calories burned: 3183

Sprint Triathalon on Saturday with my brother was a blast.  I learned that I got a lot of work to do.

I’m a better runner and swimmer than my brother technique wise, but his cardiovasular superiority rubbed me into the ground on both events.  Some of his spokes flew off in the middle of the bike ride so I was able to gain a little bit of ground there.

I REALLY need to work on my cardio before I do one of these things again.  In the middle of the swim I was winded and resorted to a breath stroke and I think that started my downfall for the rest of the run, since that stroke uses a lot of legs.  Swimming with all those people is rough — its hard to keep concentration when someone is punching you every 10 seconds.

My bicyciling needs some work too.  And once I started running it was an hour and a half into the race it was a challenge to stay above 9 minutes/mile.  ouch!  Anyways, I’m commited to getting my training going starting monday and busting it out during the off season and coming back to smoke my brother next year… or at least being able to compete with him.
Oh, and I’ll post a video with footage of the race and pictures so you guys can see how much I sucked.  Might be a bit painful for me to watch now but will be nice next year when I’m more fit.

Just took some measurements and althought they could be a lot worse — yikes — I can’t wait till next week so I can get into the rythm of working out daily.  Vacation, out-of-state meetings, and moving didn’t help.

But lets be honest, it could be a lot worse.  I was able to eat semi-heathily and lose a bit of body fat.

So over the past few weeks I had a long vacation with the in-laws, a district meeting, and picked up the entire family and moved 75 miles north to the city of eugene oregon.  I have to say I am very stoaked about the situation — I love Eugene there are so many bonuses:

• Running and biking trails ALL OVER the place.  A quarter mile away I can hop on a trail that goes for miles north, south, east or west.
• A swimming park a few miles away.  Havent checked details or prices.
• Albertsons right across the street!  Woot!  No more running out of chicken and eating cookies.

And to top it off we have a 3-car garage.  Full-on gym (look for pictures soon).

This Saturday is the triathalon so I’m not going to be doing a lot of lifting.  Running biking and swimming monday-Thursday and taking Friday easy.  Also going to eat a LOT.  (staying heathly though)

Look forward to next week when I’ll be back into the rythm.