Week 4 Triathlon Training Completed

This was a stellar week.  I headed into my WW meeting thinking I was slightly down, I was shocked to hear I was down 4 lbs (153.2 lbs, 40 weeks of WW and 33.2 lbs lost)!  I was feeling really good about that leaving the meeting.  We had a heat wave and family visiting, plenty of reasons/excuses to not be mindful with my eating which I will use BUT for the first time I got all my work outs in for the triathlon!  Motivating comment from meeting was -- There is no perfection only perseverance.

Getting to the gym 5 days a week has proved to be impossible for me so I have decided to merge the short swim and short run days.  This week the normal "brick" day of biking followed by running was Tuesday.  Wednesday I did my second combo day of swim then run.  I felt great both days during the workouts and then shortly after the second work out I was in the grocery store and realized my legs felt like Jello.  The feeling lasted into the next day too!  Kind of a soreness but not in a painful way, more like a funny bone sort of way.  I am planning out my week again and trying to give myself a little rest in between the two days this week.  Today I did my long run (5 miles) outside.  I've been quite happy with my running in the gym lately.  On the treadmill on the manual (no elevation) setting I am running 7:30 minute miles or slightly less!!  I've actually been wondering if the treadmills were broken b/c that's really fast for me.  But reality/humidity/sunshine/hills hit me today when I did my long run outside (9 minutes per mile).  Still wondering how this will all go doing it at once, I was pooped after today's run.

I have had several run in's with the "Naked Old Lady Who's Kitchen Is On Fire" in the locker room.  Here's the gist, she does wear underwear because I walked past her putting them on in the MIDDLE of the locker room.  I'd say she was about equidistant to all the semi private areas of the locker room -- the bathroom stalls, dressing rooms or even near a locker, why do that when you can be directly in the middle of the whole place for everyone to see?  I saw her again another day heading to the showers with no towel or anything else for that matter.  Finally I saw her a third time from the sauna room (I was there first).  I like to sit tucked behind a wall but there is a big window in the sauna.  I sat up and looked out when I heard something and who do I see?  Naked Old Lady WKIOF sitting on the toilet with the door wide open!!  Thankfully this was the only sighting of her where she did actually have clothes (her moo moo dress) on.  YUCK!  I can't make this stuff up, she definitely has issues.  Issues that cause me to end my sauna time ASAP.  There is a new character on my radar.  I've seen her twice now on the stationary bike.  Why do people talk to me?  She was cringing as she biked looking up at Rachel Ray on the TV.  She turns to me and says, "Disgusting!  That is a phobia of mine, food on the television.  Grown adults should not eat ice cream.  They don't need that fattening food its for children."  It should be noted there was no ice cream on the TV just one of RR's pasta dishes.  Having no idea what to say, I said nothing.  She then said, "You think I'm crazy but its gross."  OK, crazy biker lady.

Mindful eating for the rest of the week and bring on week 5 of training!  I think I will actually sign up for this thing this week.