Saturday, March 7, 2009

An update


Wow, I can't believe it's been a week since I've written in my blog! I do have another journal going with my workouts and my LEAP diet so I guess I haven't needed to write much here as not much is happening.
This week was pretty good, had some good days and not so good days with my breathing. Still adding and deleting foods to see what bothers me and what doesn't. It is a very long process but I am getting some good results. I have really had to "clean up" my diet and by doing so am just starting to feel better....and it's been 2 weeks.

The first week was rough, seemed I was tired all the time and just not feeling myself. I was okay with the foods I was limited to and seemed to be eating enough but just getting all the processed foods/sugars/alcohol and junk out of my diet took a little longer than I thought. My workouts were sluggish and I just wasn't in to really working out.

Now that I am finished with my 2nd week I am doing much better. I have had a couple of really good rides on the mountain bike and my swims were good as well. It sure helped with our 70 degree weather. I worked 5 days this week but 2 of the days I was able to get out by 1:00-1:30pm which gave me plenty of time to get to the trails to ride. I am still not running, I think I will take another week off as it has only been 3 weeks. I do miss running, I didn't think I would but with this warm weather it sure would have been nice to be able to run in it as well. I am planning on a long walk today to see how the foot/calf do with that.

Today is much cooler than it has been all week. In the 30's with a prediction of snow. We woke up this morning with beautiful blue skies...however, it's about 2pm now and the big snowflakes are starting to come down. A little too warm for anything to stick but I am sure we will get a little bit of coverage. I don't think we are suppose to get much more than 2", but we shall see.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Sunday: Swim/Ride


Swim: 1:00 3000 yards, Evergreen
Ride: 2:40 26 miles, Bear Creek/Green Mt. on Mt. bikes.

Andy and I both had great swims this morning, I was up here in Evergreen and Andy swam down in Lakewood after getting off work this morning. We both met back at the house and waited for it to warm up a bit before heading back down the hill to Morrison to start our bike ride. I had wanted to ride Mt. bikes and Andy was up for that so I was happy:) I wanted him to show me the Mt. bike race course at Bear Creek. There is a 50 mile race, 5 loops of a 10 mile course, in May and I wasn't sure about the exact trail. I know all the trails out there like the back of my hand and there are a lot more than 10 miles worth so I wanted to make sure I was on the correct course.
We rode for just a little over an hour in the park and then headed over to Green Mt.to do a big loop where we did a fair amount of climbing.

Green Mountain in the background, Andy in Bear Creek Lake Park

The trails were packed today, it was so good to see so many people out enjoying the 65 degree weather, especially for the first of March. Our trails are NEVER this dry so early in the season. It's going to be an interesting summer if we don't get some moisture around here soon. The mountains seem to be getting adequate snow but I don't remember the last time we had a good dumping of the white stuff here in Denver (or Evergreen for that matter)...maybe early December??

Andy on top of Green Mountain with downtown Denver behind him

......a parting shot and my view for the day!