I’m still in this 183-186 holding pattern as far as my weight goes. I have a bet with a coworker I can get my weight down to 170 by the late September Century Ride, but we’ll see. In the meantime, I’m also starting to train for the Honolulu Marathon ($30 for locals if you enter by the end of the month! If you need a form, get in touch with me!). And riding, riding, riding… I have four days off starting Thursday, so that’s my plan. We’ll see how it goes.
Okay, I finished the Haleiwa Metric Century last week. Did my usual classic mistake of latching on with too fast of a group initially and going way too hard for awhile. I was saved between Sunset Beach and Kahuku High by latching onto a tandem and drafting that for as long as possible. I was actually right on track for a sub four hour finish (my goal) up to about mile 59, when… I flatted. On an uphill in the baking hot sun too. So I finished at about 4:15, because I had to stop again to inflate.
Still, it was encouraging. I also started running again for the first time since the Great Aloha Run yesterday too, and picked up the Honolulu Marathon early registration form to boot. I’m trying to get down 15 more pounds before the full century in September, which will be tough because my weight has been essentially stable for a long long time… but we’ll see.
As much as I love bicycling, mechanicals tend to kill my spirit. I’ve had a rash of flat tires recently as I’ve documented here; I did a tire rotation last night thinking that a worn rear tire was the cause of everything.
Doesn’t look like it.
Flatted first about two miles into the ride; looks like an out and out puncture. I speculate that I’ve been overinflating the tubes because these have been happening in large part since I got a replacement floor pump. But on my way back from Kailua, I flatted again; this time it was a cut that I could actually see in the rear tire (the old front tire) that I had to boot. I patched the tube and started in, where I got not one but two snakebites on the rear.
I’ve gotten really skilled at patching tubes recently. Honest.
No service tomorrow at the temple so I’m going to try for an honest to goodness 45 mile ride. Wish me luck.
went for a walk this evening with mahealani & ’sticky.’ two times around kapiolani park with a goal for 30min/round. i really enjoy exercising with other people & setting exercise dates ensures i get my butt out the door, even if the weather is less than perfect. today has actually been pretty productive. got some exercise, made some headway with my paperwork for taxes, and ate a bunch of veggies today! =) yay for mahealani— i have a feeling she’ll make sure i get at least several days of exercise each week.
omp, somehow i’ve put on about 10pounds over the holidays and the past few months… =( my mom’s been out of town tending to her mommy all of march, so that REALLY affected my exercise schedule (renee doing mochi solo meant kitchen duty practically 24/7 all month - and that also meant almost zero time to cook and grocery shop. my diet consisted of mostly fast food & junk food (chips & cookies are my go-to thing when i’m working - manage to take a few bites here & there between mochi batches). oh, and leftovers from my mini catering gigs for my sister. think heavy cream, bacon, butter & other fattening stuff…. sigh. it seems more difficult each time to get back on track again. at least the past couple of saturdays, my schedule enabled me to go to the farmer’s market. safeway’s also had some lovely yellow squash and zucchini. i’m eating better for the most part. i’m making a more conscious effort to walk more. walk to the grocery store instead of driving. when i go to kcc’s farmer’s market, i’ll park at the bottom of the hill and walk. it actually beats trying to find parking in the crowded kcc lot anyway. got a doctor’s appointment at the end of the month. need to have lost at least 3pounds from my last visit (i think it’s up to 8 now. yikes.) ordered a cute workout outfit from my mom’s jazzercise catalog — hopefully that’ll help motivate me to exercise more. oh, not to mention wanting to have my ‘fat pants’ not be so tight either…. off to my morning another walk… =)
Yet another flat today, this time with some embedded glass in my rear tire during my one hour afternoon ride. Fortunately, unlike yesterday, I actually remembered to take my pump (also fortunately, no ride yesterday), and fortunately, I had my traditional black shorts on because cycling is a dirty business. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my red jersey but I managed to not blood stain my blue and white one. Embedded glass annoys me.
Hopefully I can get in another ride tomorrow.
I weighed in this morning at 183, so maybe if I can break through that I’ll get out of this 183-185 pound cycle!
I’m trying to get down under 170; right now I’m about 184 (as of this morning). My goal date for this is by the century ride in late September. So my current training is focusing on next month’s metric century. I do have to start doing a bit of running again, but I’m just enjoying riding again–a lot. Trying to move back up to four rides a week, but the mornings haven’t been lighted enough yet at 6 for me to feel comfortable going.
I also went to the lab recently:
CHOLESTEROL 144 34- mg/dl
CHOLESTEROL/HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN 3.0
Average Risk of Heart Disease
Females: 4.4 Males: 5.0
VLDL CALC 8 0-40 mg/dl
LDL CALCULATED 88 10-129 mg/dl
My hemoglobin a1c is 7, which for a diabetic, is about what to expect. I’d like to get that down too.
1) Finish Great Aloha Run
2) Metric Century
3) Century
4) Marathon
Goal one done.
I’ve also decided (mostly because I’ve been feeling a bit down on my fitness recently) that I’ll have a weight goal for the first time in a long time. I used to weigh 265 by my scale (272 at the doctor’s); I now weight 185. I’m going to shoot for under 170 by the Century in September.
So I’m riding, and I need to do some running too, to not lose that much fitness on that front.
or at least I hope to be. Started doing my Metric Century training this past week; except for a Saturday filled with flats (two of them) all of my rides right now are just an hour, three or four times a week. It’s still pretty dark and cold in the morning at 5, so I’m not sure when I’ll start doing more morning rides, but I hope soon. My triathlete friend Cori says to not stop running, so I’ll probably pick up once or twice a week starting next week.
Bicycling training is starting all over again for me. First up is the Honolulu Bicycling League’s Metric Century (100 km, aka 62 miles) in late April, followed by the HBL’s Century Ride (100 miles, and way too many kilometers) in late September.
Going to ease into four rides a week starting this week; tomorrow a 30 miler is the first one of circumstance. Seeya after it!