PRSS set in on Tuesday last week, the day after my race. It hung around for days, and last night I went to bed at 9pm because I was tired and bored and over it! Actually I think PRSS should have hungry, tired and sore added to it - last week is a bit of a blur, because I was tired, stupid, hungry and sore.
Hungry - my goodness, all I wanted was carbs, carbs and more carbs. I was probably tired because I needed and wanted carbs, and stupid because I'd used all my carbs and wasn't quite replacing them fast enough for my brain to keep up! I actually went a bit over the weekly allowance on the food side, because I didn't do quite as much training as the week before (it was a recovery week). I was hungry - not bored - hungry, and craving carbs. So, I fed myself plenty of carbs. I can no longer do post-race pizza thanks to Hannibal the gallstone, so it was post-race beef in oyster sauce on rice. I need to find something else to have post-race, because that wasn't exciting, it was just nutrition!
The good news though is that I've finally busted the 10kg barrier - in fact, I've lost 10.9kg since I started this nutrition plan back in early December. I still don't quite fit that new tri suit I got for Christmas but it won't be long. It just appears I'll be doing the duathlon season in it instead! I'm now using the scales at work, as they are more accurate than my home ones and I can weigh in at the same time each week.
Tired - I couldn't get enough sleep last week. It was nuts. I slept in and missed OW swim squad on Saturday morning. I had fallen asleep on the couch on Friday night and woke up at 2am. I figured I should probably go to bed and woke up at 8am! Mental note to self - sort out alarms!
Stupid - forgetting people's names, mixing up clients, forgetting how to do basic tasks...seriously, I'm going to have to watch it after Yeppoon, Shep and NZ. At least with NZ I'll be on a package tour so I won't have to think much, and all the major decisions are before the race!
Sore - DOMS set in on Wednesday. I was still feeling like I'd gone three rounds with Mike Tyson right up until yesterday. I'm a bit snuffly and gunked up today, but hopefully it's just hayfever or something like it. I am not sick, it's just probably all that sea water coming out!
I've decided this morning that work is a break from training. It's a nice practical awesome distraction between seemingly endless hours of training. This week I've got about 12 hours to bash out, and the weather forecast is looking uncooperative with rain on the horizon. Oh joy - I'll be back to running in Asics to keep my Nike trainers dry for work. Work plus uni right now equals a fulltime job, so once I've got uni out of the way I can work more, train more and keep learning more!
As far as Uni goes, I just need to finish two more major theory assessments then do my practical assessment on the 5th or 7th of April and I'm all done - I'll finally be an Australian qualified Personal Trainer! I have already killed off the 20 hours of work experience, so no dramas there. Lucky I work in a gym, although apparently I can do some outdoors stuff also. OMG - so close! I can start training people before I go up to Sydney! Woohoo!
Right, better go do some study, have some lunch, bash out that 1700m in the pool and go to work!
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