(10 months 2 weeks post op) what a week... i rode 74 on 7/4 riding from my house in arlington to my parent's house in fort worth going along the trinity trails. that dang near killed me :) took friday off, then rode 50 on saturday. i planned on riding a slow-er paced group ride, the coffee ride at mad duck on sunday but i got 2 flats and had to call a cab :(. then i decided i was going to do 2 loops on river legacy mtn bike trail that afternoon to make up for it. but that didn't happen. in the middle of the first loop i bonked big time.
that brings me to the overall theme this month: just lose weight!!! i have always known that you can't improve performance and lose weight at the same time. you will always sacrifice one for the other. sure you can make gradual improvements in both at the same time but you're doing yourself a disservice by not concentrating fully on one.
but i really forgot why that was until this weekend. after looking at my garmin data i noticed me burning 4800, 4500 and 3100 calories on my three biggest rides this week. all of them were slow paced because honestly every time i pushed it i got that "no energy here" feeling in my gut. if you've ever been an athlete you know what i'm talking about. why? because i'm not eating enough calories. plain and simple. i'm really concentrating on eating clean so i'm not really getting a lot of calories down. i mean not enough to perform at a high level. i'm just getting enough in to finish my exercise. there will be plenty of time for me to build endurance but i only have a shrinking window to really drop the weight.
so that said...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
weight: 271.0 lbs
that brings me to the overall theme this month: just lose weight!!! i have always known that you can't improve performance and lose weight at the same time. you will always sacrifice one for the other. sure you can make gradual improvements in both at the same time but you're doing yourself a disservice by not concentrating fully on one.
but i really forgot why that was until this weekend. after looking at my garmin data i noticed me burning 4800, 4500 and 3100 calories on my three biggest rides this week. all of them were slow paced because honestly every time i pushed it i got that "no energy here" feeling in my gut. if you've ever been an athlete you know what i'm talking about. why? because i'm not eating enough calories. plain and simple. i'm really concentrating on eating clean so i'm not really getting a lot of calories down. i mean not enough to perform at a high level. i'm just getting enough in to finish my exercise. there will be plenty of time for me to build endurance but i only have a shrinking window to really drop the weight.
so that said...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
weight: 271.0 lbs
-weaker but thinner dominator
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