Today I ventured out to raid my favourite fruit shop. This is no mean feat - it requires a train ride, then a bus ride, but the reward is lots of nice cheap good quality fruit. Sadly, they were closed - stupid Christmas - and have no sign on their window to indicate when they will re-open. Since I refuse to pay $8 for a kilo of apples at the supermarket, and $5 for a chip of strawberries, I guess I'll have to hit the markets tomorrow if THEY are open.
I love fruit, and on WW now fruit is free - to a point (pardon the pun). I wasn't sure if there was a way to OD on fruit and have it bite back, so I checked the message boards. Yep, more than two pieces of fruit a day may cause issues with kj intake, as the sanctioned two pieces of fruit are part of your daily points allowance - but if you go over this it may affect your weight loss. Bah, humbug. I've been having two to three serves a day with no consequences so far. I've lost 3.3kg in three weeks and quite a bit of body fat, so I'll stick with my two to three serves a day and not go bananas (pardon that shocker of a pun also).
Yeppoon! Since I dropped the Y-Bomb a couple of days ago, I guess I'd better atone and tell you all about it. I had an email come through from Ironman.com and it announced that entries were open for the 2011 Ironman 70.3 Yeppoon race at Capricorn Resort. Well, I thought, perhaps I should take a look at this. So I did. And then I entered and now have just under 8 months to prepare. It's four months after the Dextro in Sydney, so that will be a good indicator of how I'll go at Yeppoon. Now I just need to sort my flights, accommodation, transfers...the mind boggles and the list goes on!
There's a lot of work to be done between now and these two key races. Every leg needs work, and not just the ones I use to move around on. My swim needs work, my bike needs work and my run needs serious work. But this is not insurmountable, even if my core also needs work. What I plan to do now is split my training up a bit so that I'm not so tired and sore.
I'll do about half an hour of Pilates before work in the mornings. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday I'll be swimming, followed by some time on the wind trainer at home. Tuesday and Thursday I'll be in the gym working on my strength and muscular endurance, and going for a run. Friday will be a rest day, and Sunday will be yoga or race day. Since I can hook my MacBook up to the TV, I can watch my online PT lectures while on the wind trainer. Taking notes may be a pain in the butt though, but then so is my saddle after not enough time on it. That needs to change.
I need to survive sitting on that saddle for up to 100km prior to Yeppoon. I'll be fine - but I also need aerobars and I'm not sure I want to clip them on to my Avanti Sprint road endurance bike. I think I'd be better off saving for a tri specific bike, and most of the toys I have on my Avanti I can take off and stick on a new bike. I'd love another Avanti because I've always had Avanti bikes. My first ten speed twenty-odd years ago was an Avanti, and they are good quality bikes. As it stands, I need to take off the extra brake levers on the Avanti which will cost about $200. I think this money would be better put towards a tri bike. We'll see.
So now with Sydney and Yeppoon on the calendar for 2011, plus another half around November or December, and the half at the Melbourne Marathon in October, I need to do some serious planning. I need to be really scrooge-like with my time and money and annual leave, to make sure I achieve these goals I've set. My only expenses for Sydney are transfers, food and paying for the hostel on arrival. For Yeppoon though, I'm up for flights, accommodation, food, a new bike, racing kit, and at least one or maybe two more pairs of runners. Hopefully I can pick up some PT work which will bring in some extra bucks.
Because I'm losing weight, my clothes size will shrink, but I have some smaller training gear stashed away. This will be good for later on. The stuff I bought with my vouchers from 2XU mostly fits but some things are a little small. Fortunately the training pants aren't one of them, hurrah! It was nice to be able to train yesterday in pants that fit. My goodness, it has been ages since that last happened. Today I have DOMS in my legs, despite my protein loading at Xmas lunch and wearing my compression gear to bed. I'll jump on the WT later and loosen up my legs, as walking today didn't help.
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