Well we made it back from our trip, I made it through 5 days of the cabbage soup cleanse like I had planned, and life has been great! I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful wife and children! The cleanse felt great, I really could tell and difference and just needed something to help me get my nutrition tightened up again after our hospital stay having the baby. We were there 4 days, and well 4 days of eating out of the hospital canteen can really make you feel disqusting! It did me anyway :)
Our trip to Onancock, VA (which is the Eastern Shore area of the Chesapeake) was amazing! I felt like I got some really nice training n. I logged about 100 miles on the bike and 10 miles of running. I know that isn't astronomical in mileage, yet it felt great and just what I needed coming off a very strict cleanse. I also did a coupe of hour long kayak excursions with my wife out into the bay. We beached for a bit and I swam minimally, yet it was great and felt nice to at least get some open water strokes in! That is after 6 months of 3-4 days in the pool at the gym!!!!! There were a lot of walks around town and just great hang out time with the baby and my wife's family. I loved the trip and feel so rejuvenated.
I have been hitting it pretty hard since we got back. At least my body feels like I have. We got back to Asheville Tuesday morning about 4:30.....yikes! Since then I have gotten in two 1/2 mile swims at the pool, a 12 mile and 9 mile bike ride, a couple 4 mile runs, and a weight training session hitting chest and arms really hard. Totally sore and beat today, yet I will amange to muster up the motivation to log a bike ride in before sun down....that is if it stops thundering outside!!!! Been slack on my yoga, only stretching here and there to loosen my back and hamstrings since getting back into town. I have to get more committed so I am thinking about doing Baron Baptiste's 40 Day Journey to Power program again to get back to a solid 30 minute a day yoga practice. My wife is totally rocking it exercise wise now, so I think soon we'll be able to practice together which makes it so much easier to get my yoga in. It's amazing what a toll that a C-Section can have on a person! My wife is certainly my hero!!!!!!
So now that the baby is here and is doing great, I am planning my races for the rest of this season. So far this year I have ran two 5k and two 10k races. I did one duathlon and one biathlon....all of which were great and I was happy with my results. Having the baby on the way, I couldn't realistically fit in anymore up to this point, but hope to finish out the year strong. I am signing up for the City of Lenoir Tri (Sprint) in September, a half marathon in October in beautiful Cherokee, NC. Those are the two I am doing for sure. There is a cool Pump and Run race in August that I am considering where you do as many bench presses as you can then run a 5k.....sounds awesome to me :) Not sure of what's out there in Novemeber, but being cool weather, I would love to find another half marathon to do that month and then I want to finish the year out with the Jingle Bell 5k in Lincolnton, NC that I did last year. I got to dress up in my elf hat and socks and just had a blast! Big plans to place in the top 3 of my age group in the Tri and the 5k's!!!!!
Well that's about it! I am working on getting my thoughts together to make the Shoe-String Budget Bike post...... There is so much I want to fit in because I seriously went on this in-depth 6 month journey learning about, researching and finally purchasing a bike. Trust me you have to do that when you are working on a $400 dollar road bike budget and want to get soemthing you can be competitive on! I made a great choice and love my bike.....the Forge CTS 1000. There is a pic up of the bike in the left-hand corner of the blog page. Anyway hope anyone that reads this is well and happy training! Just remember we can do anything that we put our minds to! Hardwork never killed anybody, at least not that I am aware of!
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