So I’ve been at this for a week and change now, and while there’s been some weight loss, or so the scale tells me, I’m still seeing an amorphous blob of a trunk when I look in the mirror.\u00a0 I’m also struggling with translating motivation into action, and believe it or not, I’ve not yet ventured into the water because I’m afraid of being mistaken for an orca.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I am doing my runs and bikes, albeit with a fair amount of effort to actually put on my cycling or running shoes.\u00a0 As I see progress, I know I’ll be motivated to push the envelope.\u00a0 It’s just a matter of time.<\/p>\n
On a lighter note, after a pretty challenging workout I designed for myself last night on the bike trainer, one that involved a number of slow-cadence hill climbs, my legs felt great this morning when I went out for a 4 mile run.\u00a0 An ability to quickly recover has always been a hallmark, for me, of good fitness, so this is a good omen. \u00a0 On the run, I don’t seem to be able to consistently keep my pace down as indicated by a high heart rate and an obvious high effort level, but I don’t feel the level of fatigue or angst that I felt last week.\u00a0 If I work on literally slowing down and enjoying the scenery, I might have a shot at improving faster.\u00a0 Hard to imagine that running slow would be so difficult.<\/p>\n
I’m trying to keep things into perspective.\u00a0 The Ironman is still a full eight months away (and change), so there’s plenty of time for me to get into long course shape.\u00a0 But, this portion of the training season is key for developing a good core and for becoming strong enough to withstand the rigors of 80+ mile rides and 15+ mile runs.\u00a0 Oh yeah, it’ll help with swimming too.<\/p>\n
I have all these delusions of what I could<\/em> do in the race.\u00a0 If the training works out the way that I think it will, I could get the swim done in 90 minutes (hopefully a good 10 minutes less), do the bike in 6 hours (hopefully 30 minutes less), and do the marathon in 4.5 hours (if not faster if I can avoid walking much).\u00a0 That would get me in under 12 hours which would be a HUGE accomplishment for someone like me.\u00a0 It’s all possible, I’m sure of it.\u00a0 I just have to put in the work.\u00a0 Speaking of which, I might as well get on with training.\u00a0 Ciao for now.<\/p>\n P.S.\u00a0 As if finding the perfect woman wasn’t enough, after Roya moves in, she’s committed to cooking me the best foods to accommodate all of this endurance training.\u00a0 We’re sharing websites, recipes, etc.\u00a0 What an amazing person she is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’ve been at this for a week and change now, and while there’s been some weight loss, or so the scale tells me, I’m still seeing an amorphous blob of a trunk when I look in the mirror.\u00a0 I’m also struggling with translating motivation into action, and believe it or not, I’ve not yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregghgordon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}