Trying for a Tri

Blog, meet new car. New car, meet blog

 
I love how you can see my Dodge Shadow in the background in this photo Out with the old, in with the new!!

Here she is hanging out in my parking spot…

View from my balcony – making new friends!!

I took her for a drive, but it was raining buckets.

Behind the wheel!!

I took this after parking, safety first folks.

Highlight of having a new fancy vehicle came when I stopped by the grocery store to pick up a few essentials (read: yogurt, berries, turkey slices). Not only could I pop the trunk but the trunk door stayed open! Neither of which the Shadow did. Plus, the Shadow had a full-sized tire in the trunk… the new trunk is nice and roomie for lotsa food and a bike!

Looking at this picture, I realize that I forgot to buy coffee at the grocery store. Shoot.

Oh yeah, there was some food and training in my day too! My summery oats for breakfast:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup water
• 2 tbsp soy protein powder
• cinnamon
• strawberries
• yogurt w/ vanilla and stevia
• Fibre 1 cereal

I swear there was oatmeal in there somewhere…

Chris overslept and never came to get his cookies! His loss… I ended up bringing them to work to leave for the morning crew tomorrow. Not without snagging a little one for myself

I didn’t end up doing as long as a swim as I’d hoped today. I couldn’t find a parking spot and didn’t feel like walking in the rain. So I just ran a few errands and managed to find one when I went back. But there was only 40 minutes left of the adult lap swim. So I dropped the drills. Yeah yeah, I’m always yapping about how important they are, but I really wanted to work on my speed.

Warm-up:
2 x 100m (20s rest)

Core:
4 x 50m (15s rest) Fastest time = 1:03
4 x 100m (20s rest) Fastest time = 2:10
2 x 200m (30s rest) Fastest time = 4:20
4 x 50m (15s rest) Fastest time = 1:01

Cool-down:
2 x 100m (20s rest)

Duration: 43 minutes
Distance: 1600

Overall, I’m pretty pleased It’s hard to do speed workouts when I’m frequently swimming into the kicking feet of the slow person ahead of me, but I do think I am getting faster. I just wish I could find a lane that suits my speed. The “leisure lane” is mostly seniors who swim at a snail’s pace. The “fast lane” is all hardcore swim team people. Then there’s my “medium lane” which is basically for everyone else. On the bright side, I’m at least used to swimming with large groups of people kicking and splashing me, so that part of the tri shouldn’t phase me

Afterwards, I make a monster pita.

It hardly fit on my full-sized plate.

Looking into the eyes of the beast…

• homemade sunflower hummus
• tzatziki (awesome addition!!)
• turkey
• tomatoes
• mushrooms
• red/green pepper
• red onion
• pea sprouts
• spinach

So satisfying!!

Then it was more running around, including doing a shoot for the cable news show I used to host. They needed someone for this week and I obliged. It was kind of fun to be back at it! Still don’t miss doing it twice a week it though.

Supper was another one of my pan creations where I throw a bunch of veggies and a protein source in a pan and hope for the best.

• Yves meatless beef strips
• 1/2 cup Eden organic refried black beans
• red/green pepper
• red onion
• mushrooms
• spinach
• jalapeño
• garlic
• last of the homemade salsa
• Kraft Tex Mex

The texture was kinda mushy, but the taste was pretty darn good.

Of course, melted cheese can make anything taste awesome

In other news, the weather forecast has changed a million times, and right now looks good for a bike ride tomorrow Perhaps Mother Nature heard my cries. Now I’m off to bed for a little blog reading. See y’all tomorrow!