noattentionspan

So today, this morning, I feel that Ironman is possible.

The weekend really helped me get my head around the distances and my body’s ability to handle that kind of work.

Can I swim 4km? Yup, turns out that I can.
Can I bike 180km? Amazingly enough, I can, proved it yesterday (longest ever ride)
Can I run a marathon? Yup, proved that a couple of times over actually.

More importantly though I can get out of the pool after 4km and feel good to go. I can finish 180km on the bike and have legs left to do a run.

Oh, and I can do math.

Estimated 3.86km race swim time: < 1:30:00 (1:20:00 isn't out of reach)
Estimated 180km race bike time: < 7:00:00 (6:30:00 isn't out of reach)
Estimated 42.2km race run time: < 5:00:00 (4:40:00 isn't out of reach)

Is my marathon going to be my fastest? Heck no. But I'll finish it, and I'll finish it in a reasonable time.

On that note though, later in the evening I went swimming and just had no energy, motivation or desire to be there in the least. Finally, after 1200 rather lackadaisical meters I just said fuck it and hopped in the hot tub and chatted to Sheryl.

Somedays you just don't feel the love, better to take the rest of the time off rather than push through and lose motivation or possibly injure yourself, right?

S

Nutrition and Exercise

Morning weigh-in: 193lbs (still low after the massive calorie burn yesterday)

0800
- Vector cereal with skim milk

— start of work

1000
- Small bag of chips (210 cal)

1145
- Chicken strips and fries
- and a Coke (can = 160 cal)

1430
- Small bag of chips (210 cal)

1600
- 2 small candies (67 cal)

— end of work

1900
- 710ml Coke (@320 cal)

2000
- Large scoop of peanut butter (@200 cal)

2030
- 1200m swim at Canada Games, no motivation or desire to be there at all, ultimately just went and hopped in the hot tub.
– 300m free warm-up, 9×100m alt pull/free (RPE3)

2300
- Large plate of pasta salad with Mediterranean beef.