So it’s time to focus on training.  Right now my biggest challenges are diet and consistency.  #1 is consistency.  I need to schedule the workouts in advance, put them on my calendar and get up and out when the alarms go off.  As far as diet, we start the weekly veggie allotment in two weeks, so getting fresh fruit & veg will be easier.  Now just to stay away from sweets.  It’s going to take a concerted effort to quell the chocolate jones.  I’m going to need to figure out what’s causing that trigger each evening.

Got some fun times planned with a long beach/anniversary weekend, and back-to-back Lake Placid training camp weekends and looking forward to OBX later in the summer.

Life is good.

Speaking of which I’m back in at CrossFit.  I signed up for 3x week classes, and am planning on Monday, Wednesday & Friday morning sessions.  It’s going to be a challenge to get up for the 5:30am classes but I think that the strength & power gains are worth a little bit of sleep.  Today was the first class and it was a good session to start:  800m sprint, 21 KB swings, 400m sprint, 15 KB swings, 800m sprint, 9 KB swings, 400m sprint.  My time was 16:43, but I used a pretty light KB.

I ran 5m at lunch outside in the cold.  I managed to negative split the out-and-back again, but just barely.  My hamstrings were pretty tight from the CrossFit workout.  It’s going to take a couple of weeks to get over the initial shock of 2-a-days again.

As far as quitting goes, only the first two days seemed difficult in the least.  I didn’t feel any sense of deprivation over Thanksgiving and haven’t really felt any strong urges to drink.  I suppose it helps that there isn’t really anything to drink in the house, at least nothing that I would really want to drink.

Next week is going to be a true test as it will be a full work week and a school week as well.  In order to counter the inevitable stress of both environments, I’m going to try to go back to two-a-day workouts.  I’m not sure if I can make early morning workouts, but I should be able to run at work during lunch.  When I get home I’m planning on “pressing play” on P90X.

I have no idea if this is going to work, but I’m willing to give it a shot.

Tula on adoption day

First and foremost, I’d like to introduce you to Tula:  She’s a rescue puppy from Doggy Dog World Rescue.  She has some cattle dog or possibly Aussie shepherd in her, but we really don’t care what her past was.  We are more excited about her future as our little girl.  Jaco the cat is withholding judgment until he has collected more data.

We are re-learning what it means to have a puppy in the house.  Our last experience was over 20 years ago with little Dexter.  We are both looking at a lot of information (books, on-line) and figuring out what we did right (lots) and what we did wrong (some) with Dexter in his training.  One thing is for certain, we will be enrolling all three of us in classes at St. Huberts soon.

On the training front I managed to hit all my running workout and only missed one of the strength/stretching sessions.  A bit over 17.5 miles for the week makes this my longest run week in many months.  Feels good to be back in the groove.

Time to start training!

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