Last weekend, I set out to make a schedule for my remaining time before my tri. My goals for the tri are simple: enjoy it, finish and be ahead of the last 10 finishers. I made a pretty aggressive schedule of 6 days a week workouts. I tried to make sure I was putting in a push to prepare my endurance, my cardio strength and my form in each discipline, while also doing a little resistance training and working the booty as that is my biggest area of improvement. My schedule includes 2 bricks on the weekend; Saturday is swim/bike and Sunday is bike/run. My schedule is pretty tight, but it's only for a few more weeks, so I just have to hang in there and remember that. Last week, with studying and the new job, I missed out on two days because I just needed sleep. But, I kept the diet dialed in and continued to make progress. Physically, I am feeling excellent. I think I am definitely addicted to exercise at this point. When I don't have the time to workout, my body feels kind of crappy and my mental state is a little down. This must be the endorphin addiction I've heard about? Not sure, I just know I can't take more than one day off, or I'm really off.
I reconnected with the Motivation to Move website/podcast/forum again and decided to become a premium member and pay for some stuff. I am on such a huge personal growth pattern, the message and motivation that Scott from MTM delivers is really invaluable to me. So I thought I would put a little plug for him on my blog... :o)
On the professional side of me, I had a last minute push for studying for my Network+ test and successfully passed it yesterday. YAY for me! This was an important certification to validate my skills and open some future doors for me professionally. Now it's time to move on to the Security+ and then Cisco. I am really enjoying my new job and it has so much opportunity for me to grow, not only technically, but also with my professional skills such as time management, self management and project management. I'm pretty psyched about it.
So with weight loss- I finally started to lose! This week I lost 2 pounds and I am now down to 205. Under 200 is so close I can taste it. I haven't been under 200 pounds in at least 10 years. I don't even remember what that's like. But I am excited to get there. I think I might be able to do it before the triathlon; who knows? I'll just keep plugging away with the workouts. My focus now is more to be ready for the triathlon rather than weight loss. So I've been experimenting with changes in diet and also with changes in workout. I figure the rest of the weight can come off after the tri if it has to. Well, I hope you who is kind enough to be interested in my progress is having a great day and come back and visit me soon! Feel free to leave comments. Thanks.
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