040609 – rest please…
Workout: none. After a gruelling 3 day weekend including a Nancy PR on Friday, a 5k PR on saturday, 50.5 mi/6700ft of climbing and a basketball game on sunday – my legs and back are thoroughly destroyed. The only thing I am doing this week is sprinting tomorrow and playing basketball on wednesday. Thursday and Friday are rest – MChallenge is saturday.
BF check: Bi – 4mm, Tri – 5mm, Back – 17mm, SI – 7mm – 33mm total = 13% give/take
Nutrition:
730AM – [3] – 1 Amylu chicken apple sausage, 1 apple w/ peanut butter,
1 hard boiled egg, 1 small can of V8
1015AM – [2] – 1 zone bar
1230PM – [3] – Seared Ahi tuna salad (4.5 oz or so), not much on the vegetables,
so I matched it w/ a just shy of 3 block chocolate larabar (all natural, organic,
no added sugar, gluten and dairy free)
400PM – [?] – handful of cashews…
800PM – [4] – 6 oz salmon, 5 oz (cooked) sweet potato leaves (1 block),
7 oz broccoli (1 block), 1 orange, 1 oz peanut butter
[6.5/60bpm] – elevated heart rate (normal being 54 for me, body needs rest.)
I was pretty hungry all day, eating close to 2500 calories. HR was definitely still elevated and I was dehydrated, scale in the AM said 144.5, about 1 lb shy on water, my lips are pretty cracked. I’m doubling up on Acid Zapper as suggested for these days leading into Saturday
Joe Breese said this on April 7th, 2009 at 7:35 am
not a bad idea… I should do that too…
sodium intake has definitely gone up as of late, so that has been helping me to retain water. Scale this morning said 167.0 – seems to be right around where I’m stabilizing. Will need to measure BF after KOM – that will be interesting, esp. w/ those cheat days…!
apexaddict6 said this on April 7th, 2009 at 7:40 am
I’m going to start increasing my sodium intake today, I’m switching my caloric profile to 60-70% carbs, 20% fat, and the rest as protein, or at least trying to. No more nuts, EVOO, or avocado for the rest of the week. I read that eating a crap load of carbs helps retain water, and the burning of glycogen requires water, so they appear to complement each other. Only a few more days… I’m anxious/nervous
Joe Breese said this on April 7th, 2009 at 8:12 am
I’m sticking to what I’m doing b/c it seems to be working for me, and I have not done enough experimenting to change at this point… I am, however, going to regulate my fats more carefully instead of eating random handfuls of almonds and peanuts…
I just want to get it over with. I want to complete it and move on. If I don’t complete it, I am going to be PO’d.
apexaddict6 said this on April 7th, 2009 at 8:17 am
After asking Bikely to rebuild the route profile, it updated to 6953ft climbing, so we did more than 1/2 the climbing in less than 1/2 the distance.
Joe Breese said this on April 7th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
haha, have them rebuild it again, see if we can get it to break 7000…!
at 12k ft of climbing, we did 58% of the climbing or so… not bad at all… with 50+ miles to do the remaining 42% of the climbing, that is making me slightly more relieved.
I don’t think I’ve been this worried about completing an event before, haha
apexaddict6 said this on April 7th, 2009 at 12:32 pm