I Guess it's a Double Today

As you might imagine, time available for blogging has been limited compared to 6 months ago and prior. So since I'm not yet doing 5+ hour workouts on a Sunday, I have a bit of time, so you get a twofer today.

Once again, I think I got the nutrition right on my Friday long swim, which ended up being 8,000 yards. I had an English muffin w/jam, 2 cups of coffee and 200 calories of Ultrafuel right after I woke up, and was in the pool swimming within :50. I think that's a new record!

I took 2.5 hours worth of Infinit with me, and I finished about all of it. Here is the workout I did (keep in mind I make these up from week to week):
1000 free (a warmup of sorts)
2000 pull
1000 free a bit faster than during warmup
500 kick to give my face a break from the goggles, but kicked peppily
1500 pull w/paddles (see I like to get progressively harder as I go just like when I do long runs)
10x200 with 15" rest as 100 fast, 25 back mod, 25 free mod, 25 back mod, 25 free mod

I ended up doing 8,000 because I had time! And I was swimming well. I had time to stretch a bit in the sauna and then headed home to start my workday. I immediately drank Endurox R4 and made 2 servings of oatmeal (cinnamon spice, yum!). About an hour and half later, it was time for some fruit, then I ate a normal lunch and a salad and pasta w/chicken liver-tomato sauce (sounds gross, but it's really good--I LOVE chicken livers so I get a good dose of protein and since I don't eat much fat I get that, too).

I felt "normal" around 4PM. No chance for me to nap since I had a busy workday.

Yesterday morning I awoke feeling pretty good and not even thinking I'd need supplemental caffeine for my workout (beyond my usual 2 cups of coffee). I did 2:15 on the trainer, overall at 81% of FTP (although I felt pathetic as I should have been able to manage more, oh well), then went and ran :25 and walked at 4MPH at 3% incline for :15. Still a decent workout.

I ate a small baguette last night, which is unusual for me since I'm not a big bread eater. But it was good, and that plus some rice with dinner and I broke down at the grocery store and got some orange slices (candy) to supplement and felt I had taken in a good amount of carbs.

This morning I had a Power Bar with the coffee, then I drank a can of Coke while doing my warmup for the race, an hour's worth of Infinit plus 32 oz. of Gatorade during the race and my post-race running, chowed down at the race, and since then I've had a mango and a beer, but am growing rather hungry again.

I am still finding it tough to get all the calories in that I need, only because of the sheer time I am training plus sleeping plus work do the math, I just don't have time to eat so much! But I am working on how to change that, and good thing is that my appetite usually picks up as it gets warmer. I know that's backwards of most people, but it is how it is for me.

I worked on my training schedule for the next 3 weeks and think I can still do it ;) But fast approaching is the craziness that I am not sure I can manage, but we shall see. As long as I'm cool with this being THE ONE THING that I am doing, it is working. It was good to see some familiar faces at the small race today, and once I'm back to riding outdoors there will be more of that.

Well, I need to go and eat some more now, so that's it for today!