Well after 1 week...

I have dropped a few more lbs in the last week.  I am now down 93 lbs from the start of this journey.  I want to drop another 5-7 by the begginning of August.  I limped towards the finish line last week with training.  I did more swimming than I had planned and lost a lot of running due to a nagging calf injury.  I hit the gym today after a 25 mile bike ride.  It was my first road bike ride on a road bike.  I bought a new bike on Friday.  I purchased a Specialized Allez.  It is soooooo different than what I have been used to riding.  I had been riding a mountain bike that I had for years.  It served it's purpose.  So the bike ride today absolutely wore me out.  It is just such a different ride.  After the ride I came home, hit the gym and did my normal Chest/tricep/core workout.  Then I hit the pool and did a 1000 meters.  One of the highlights of the swim was an uninterupted 400 meter swim.  It is the longest swim I have done yet.  I still did my training laps but that was nice to get the triathlon distance out of the way.  My nutrional side has yet to fail.  Outside of a planned 4th of July event where I had a steak and some fixins, I have not had any meat since last Monday.  I had originally plannned on just cutting back, but now I ma off the meat until August 5.  That is the day of the Bridgeland Triathlon.  If I make it in, which my triathlon friend Brandon believes I will, then afterwards it is meat eating time.  If I am not in, it is meat eating time. 

So week two has begun.  Brandon was telling me that people just flat out dont show up to the triathlons.  They get cold feet.  They hurt themselves.  They forget.  Whatever the case he thinks there is a good chance that i am in the event.  I hope so.  I won't find out until the night before.  And that is all for today.  I have more swimming and light cardio tomorrow.  Ian

Happy 4th of July, day 3

I guess the easiest way to pass time on a stationary bike is to update this log. Swimming went well last night and I did it again this morning since I am not running for the next few days at least. I start with. 100 m freestyle to warm up. Then I do 2 200 m freestyle swims without touching the wall so I kind of have to do this loopy loop lap thing. Then I do 8 25 m arms only swims freestyle followed by 8 25 m sprints and capped off by a 100 m swim. So that is my km of swim. Now I am on. 15 minute bike ride on level 15 hill followed up by a 15 minute elliptical level 11 hill. Since it is Wednesday I have to do a back/bicep/core workout. Yeah! Today I planned on veering off the nutritional side since I have a steak waiting for me at a party that starts in an hour and a half. Other than that being a herbivore isn't that bad so far. God bless what is left of America! Ian

Day 2, July 3, 2012

Sitting here on a stationary bike listening to Coolio. I can think of no way to start my Tuesday. 20 minutes here, then 20 on the elliptical. Hill setting on both. I will hit the pool this evening for 1000 yards. I retweeked my calf yesterday running. I tweeked it last Wednesday am rested it for a few day but I think I hurried it. So I am going to change my cardio to non resistance or low resistance only. Stationary bike, elliptical, bike and swimming. The nutritional side went well yesterday. Started the day with a banana, 2 eggs, 1/4 of a cantaloupe and a glass of milk. Had 2 yogurts, an orange and an apple for lunch. Snacked on a banana and orange later. Ended the day with celery and peanut butter. All together a good mix up of food. Today should be similar but dinner will be bigger with salad and stuff since work ends at 6 today. Lovin it! Ian

Day 1, July 2, 2012

Hitting the gym this morning. Actually I am on the stationary bike right now. Doing a 15 minute ride on level 15 hill real quick. That will be followed up by 25 minutes on the treadmill at level 5.0 with zero incline. I will finish with the elliptical at level 11 hill for 15 minutes. Then my cardio will be done. That is the base for all my Monday, Wednesday and Friday workouts. Then I will go into a chest, tricep and core workout that will take about 40 minutes. I cycle the reps into 3 little sections. I will do bench, followed by one handed tricep pull downs followed by a side ab exercise. I will repeat it 3 times in that order gradually increasing the weight. Then I do the same with incline, rope tricep and shoulder shrugs. Then the final section of chest flys, front plank (core) and side plank (core). Then it will be done for the day. Of course then I get to go home and eat 2 eggs, 1/4 of a cantaloupe and a large glass of milk. It is going to be great. Only 3 minutes left on the treadmill left. A nice bone thugs and harmony song playing on pandora. Nice. Ian