did 30mi this morning. had to stop as I was too hungry to continue. I ordered food when I was 15min away and Uber generally is 40min, so raced the guy back. Here’s breakfast: Uber Eats
Marina Variety Store Restaurant (Lockwood Dr)
Order #2A79B • Today 8:34 AM
3 Original Eggs Benedict Hash Browns $25.47
1 Crab and Cheese Omelette Hash Browns and Toast $12.99
2 Bacon $4.58
2 Sugar Ham $4.58
2 Smoked Sausage $5.98
3 Egg Whites $3.00
1 Famous Greek Omelette Hash Browns and Toast $9.49
1 Steak Philly Omelette Hash Browns and Toast $8.99
I went back to grains today. Even white starches like the muffins on eggs benedict. I am just running into a calorie deficit too often and literally can’t move unless I start chugging water as I think my body turns to burn fat and there is little left, so with inadequate fuel I think the body is burning muscle to fuel my motions and stuff, which is the pain feeling. Anyway, will see how this goes. Toast tastes amazing and seems like a good filler. I might buy some whole wheat toast at the store and go back to sliced strawberries + PB + wheat toast at times as those are delicious. Or any fruit on PB and toast. I generally don’t buy jam/jelly, I just mash/slice fresh fruit or berries and if frozen, defrost and then put on there. This switching to grains might possibly be 15% cheaper too if I’m just downing loaves of 100% wheat bread. I’m not sure how committed I am to grains yet and just might use them when I’m running hot, but no grains when I’m just hanging out, especially not white starches if I’m chilling on the couch or something.
I waved at the head of this cycling group in full gear this morning passing the other way and he just glared at me. Whole crew in ridiculous gear. I’m on my heavy bike, the Jamis. I’m doing a couple bridge repeats, not even that fast. I fill up my water bottle at one stop and they were slightly ahead of me. I caught up almost a full length of the bridge. I am filling up my water bottle as they pass to start the bridge again. I finish filling up my waterbottle and pass the first guy on a slight incline about 5min later. I was about to pass the next guy, but my phone fell off of my mount on the bridge, didn’t crack, didn’t fall 300 feet into the water. I got off my bike, got my phone and the last guy passed me. I saw him pedaling, he knew he couldn’t be passed again. Fuck this group. Passed the mofo again. On the pass, I assembled my phone in my hands while riding, forearms on handlebars triathlon style, without aerobars on a slight incline (have a battery case that popped out), then mounted the phone on the device I have and stood up to pass. Yeah. Then I headed down on the steep decline and then turned around for another repeat; I think his group was waiting at the car. Passed by him again going up the bridge on another repeat (3rd time passing this dude). He gave me the ‘I’m in deep shit’ look as we passed the last time. I think that dude who wave snubbed me was going to give him shit about going slow, and I hope to God he tells the guy that I passed him three times. Groups and wave snubbers with slow riders. What is this.
NYRR will not store a skateboard for you. If you don’t have someone to watch it you’d better chain it up or hope that no one is in the mood to swipe a skateboard that day.
Headphones are allowed as long as you’re not running in the professional heat, and I don’t think anyone really cares if you wear them or not. Most of the NYRR people monitoring the course are volunteers who can’t disqualify you anyway. It’s more a matter of how much you want to stick out of the crowd as most runners will neither be shirtless nor wearing air traffic controller equipment on their head.
Whoever attends the dinner please take a pic of ACE’s food order as I want to see for myself how wacky this guy’s eating habits actually are.
OK thanks for the info. I was hoping to put my board in the bag check, not sure how big the bag is but the board is pretty small. I don’t like uncertainty though so not sure what I will do here. I could warm up on the board and just subway or cab it to the race.
Its hard to lock a skateboard unless it has holes.in th deck. I could bring a lock and drill holes in it. That’s a possibility. That sounds like a good plan actually. I can be ‘in the zone’ the whole time and not deal with BS.
I probably wont eat too heavy dinner night. But, at least a few salads most likely. Just enough to get the nutrients I need. I’ll probably eat relatively light and then 1 more meal before bed and then most likely won’t eat much except fruit and stuff race morning.
My calorie intake is largely determined by my workouts, so probably will be at about 4,000 calories 9/8. Just planning on a long steady cardio activity like stationary bike that afternoon and skateboarding Sat morning.
Bags are decent size, but probably not big enough for a skateboard. If I had to guess, they could probably fit something up to like maybe 1.5 feet in length. For reference, the one time I did bag check, I was able to fit a thin sweatshirt, track pants, hand towel, sandals, and a few small personal items in one bag with just enough room to cinch it up. Bag check won’t accept any bags with things sticking out the top.
In talking to a lot of the bike techs over the past two weeks, my mileage is a bit high. I wasn’t aware of the effects of high mileage, but the more I read, the more I think I realize I positioned myself for a bit of an ‘ultra endurance’ cyclist at the beginning of last week, which was my plan (I didn’t know the terminology), but I had little knowledge of the effects of high mileage endurance cyclists. When all this is finished maybe I can type more, but I honestly can’t type that much anymore due to my hands. Its not that I can’t use them, its just that to use my hands, I have to activate my quads or other muscles to get the blood flowing. My body states are quite temperamental, physically and feel best on the bike these days as I can activate my quads heavily and all is well. Honestly, if my neck hurts, I just do sprints. Get that blood flowing. Also, being a high mileage cyclist seems like you’re a bicycle mechanic all the time. I’ve tweaked both my bikes so much. Just changing out gear, tires, tubes and the biggest mindfuck of all is when something goes out on the bike and your hands are just too tired to manipulate small items (fingers literally are out), and the bike is just wounded and you have to pass out. Finally, cycling is one of the most dangerous and lethal activities I have ever done in my life. It makes Muay Thai look like a baby in a padded room. Constantly being surrounded by metal and concrete at high speeds is precarious at times. I’m pretty good in the city, but have had to thread the kneedle (go in the middle of cars) to avoid other cars at high speed in crazy ass situations that should have left me paralyzed, but I got out of it. So each day I thank God that I can walk and ride and live. I try to live each day to its fullest and seem to be adding up in ‘flare’ and wild colors, so understand these wacky cyclists out there. [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtrLKGZZFg]
Finally my MMA gym is having open sparring Tue Thur nights at 8pm. So pumped. They kind of had a falling out with the Muay Thai coaches and I actually saw parts of this coming and almost started to help with management and the operations of the business (I sent a lengthy note to WYG about this), but eventually had to back off and let things happen as they may. It was too much for me to take on that role and my role there is as a student and practitioner.
But, Tue 8pm 9/11/18 open sparring after the 9/9/18 race … wooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I love it…
I’m trying to focus on elevation this week in particular. I wanted to get to a mile in elevation gain yesterday, but hands got real sweaty and I started to get high maintenance about 800ft short (at 4,449ft - which is maybe another couple repeats to 5,280ft) and decided to be reasonable and give myself rest. I could have cranked it out and wasn’t too tired, but felt that for the strength of my race time and time to recovery, I should stop. Was a good day though. A real constant slow burn with a large ability to settle in on the bike during climbs, which I like.
climbing 10,000 feet on Thursday would be baller. Still unsure of a schedule or if I truly want to spend all my focus on cycling on my planned peak day. I’ve been wanting to swim/skimboard, but feel relatively ok with energy on the bike, then 10min after I get home I’m just useless. I can’t even play poker at night, all I want is food and sleep/rest. The logistics are a pain getting to the beach and packing food and everything, so I might stay restricted to skate/cycle and possibly some swim work in the pool where I live as it is 20ft away.
Ive neglected core work the past few days too. I need to focus on what will make me a fast runner that day and not have hard distance/elevation goals, but it would be real nice climbing 10K feet in a day. It’s just so hot when the sun comes out I might have to do a session in the morning and a few at night.
I still would like to get a good workout in today though. I’ve been improving overall as a cyclist and it feels rewarding knowing that at the very least I will come out of this a better cyclist/triathlete. I did not expect to embark on this path a few months ago.
I mean, I left the regular office environment in 2007. The whole going into the office and dressing up for nonsense meetings really started to interfere with my gym schedule.
thanks bro - I think I found a solution Valet my Stick https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XGOBWO0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The lock … locks onto the cord, which is what I need to go around the skate truck. Its just a popout $100 Penny board, if someone ganks it, I’m not too concerned, but I took that board to Europe with me earlier in the year and rode it to Conor McGregor’s gym in Dublin, which was a cool journey on it.
ugh, I rode for an hour earlier this morning and it didn’t save or something … so frustrating … it was speedwork, did 12mi of elevation repeats (maybe 1,400 feet or so).
I’m trying to focus on shorter more frequent sessions now as I have built a very strong endurance base. Once I pave the way to intensity by Thursday night, I should be able to do a recovery ride on Friday and then Sunday should have a good foundation for a strong performance.
