"Delenn" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:I'm back, and now I'm a triathlete. I still feel a bit like a poser
outside on my new bike (the odometer still has two digits on it) but I've
got road rash on my right knee, a whopping bruise on my rib and shoulder,
and a gash in my new cycling jacket. I feel like a real cyclist.My weight continues to drop - I've lost over 80 pounds - and I sometimes
worry at night about weird ailments that I might be suffering from that
explain the steady fat loss. It's coming from my butt and thighs these
days and I sometimes feel like I'm disappearing from some bizarre
muscle-sparing cancer that makes me feel stronger and healthier than ever.
Either that or the nine workouts a week I'm doing. Huh. I tend to forget
about those because they mostly feel like fun. I get kind of grumpy if I
don't get an hour of something sweaty in each day.My routine has me running, swimming and/or cycling for at least half an
hour two or three times each during the week, which works out to 6-9
cardio workouts (I often do two workouts a day) plus I do a couple of
full-body weightlifting workouts. Usually I do a Nautilus circuit these
days - time is a premium and I'm mostly trying to maintain what I've got
at this point.My triathlon is 13 weeks away and I can easily do the distance in each of
the events. I've got three months to pull it together. So far I seem to
be middle-of-the-pack potential. Good enough.The cross-training aspects of this sport seem to be relatively
joint-sparing, as I battle over-use injuries in my old bones. I laughed
to realize that my recent bike crash injured my RIGHT shoulder and knee,
whereas swimming and benchpressing tend to over-use my LEFT shoulder and
running tends to hurt my LEFT knee. This sport really spreads the pain
around evenly, and there's something to be said for the symmetry.Fact is, I'm full-tilt into endurance-weenie land and really ought not
show my face in this group, but I wanted to wave as I sped by.
Pretty good for an old broad.
Actually, pretty good for a young broad. Excellent job 🙂
David