Friday's Weigh-in

Well, I was happy when I saw that I lost 4 pounds which was done in only 3 days. You may think that I cut calories but I will tell you that I ate a ton. In fact, I haven't stopped eating. I have been training a lot so its important to fuel. I can really feel it when I don't have enough fuel in me. I am also planning ahead when I know I have a long workout. It really makes a difference to fuel up on carbs. If I eat fried calamari and nachos for dinner, then try to ride 5 hours the next day, I will be in for a long day.....not very good fuel.

Whenever I cut out sweets from my diet, I lose weight immediately but it plateaus and the challenge is to continue to eat right. I started eating right last Tuesday and now I'm down 5 pounds....maybe more. I'm on my way to meeting my goal. Only 21 pounds to go :-) People say to me that there is no way I have that much to lose but the numbers don't lie. If I have 15% body fat, then losing 26 pounds brings me down to 8-9% body fat which is a healthy number in males.....not too much.

Had a really nice week of training. I had a key swim training session with some friends gearing up for Lake Placid so we hammered some meters in a 50 meter long course pool. I'm enjoying these sessions in the 50 meter pool....it breaks up the monotony of going back and forth so many times. I rode 80 miles yesterday on a very hilly course and felt pretty strong doing so. This is a good 20 miles beyond my longest ride so far. I did a brick run afterwards too and my legs felt great. I really believe the loss of a few pounds makes a huge difference and the clean diet is such better fuel for these workouts. I followed this workout up with a 12 mile run today and my legs felt good. I was running really strong for the middle hour of this session so I know the potential is there to feel strong for a few hours with less weight and more training.

The spring is getting busy already. Heading up to RI hopefully in the next couple of weeks to ride the RI 70.3 bike course and coax Sue to swim some in the cold waters to acclimate to CDA water temps predicted to be in the mid 50's. Then its out to CDA for Sue's race which I'm really looking forward to, then up to Lake Placid for a training weekend. Its up to RI for my race and back to Lake Placid for Ironman (to watch, volunteer, train, and work).

Looking forward to this coming week for training, eating right and Friday's weigh in.