End of week 1...kind of

The triathlon training program I'm using was originally written for Friday to be the rest day during the week. I prefer for Sunday to be my rest day, so I started on Wednesday. Consequently, I'll actually hit one full seven-day cycle of training at the end of each Tuesday. But today is my last day before a rest day, so I'll count it.

Today's workout was just a run, and I carried my bike as usual. I need to come up with a better method of sun protection for my eyes; both sunglasses and goggles fog up. The swim yesterday was difficult but satisfying. I did put my activity tracker in my swim float, and confirmed that the distance between the two poles out in the water is a bit over 50 meters. I'm going to treat it as 50 meters, and call the extra just more training value. Swim days are feeling productive. I come back from a swim and immediately do laundry, wash the swim float and buoy, etc. Since I'm swimming twice a week, that means laundry gets done every 3 or 4 days. Good. And the morning after a swim day, everything I need for a swim goes back in the (newly clean and dry) float and hung up, ready to use.

My strength training seems to be stagnating. I'm at 50 reps each for pushups, situps, and squats. The pushups and squats are continuous, and I managed 40 situps in a row at least once, but generally I seem to top out at 30. My diet may be at fault. I'm burning around 3,000 calories a day, and eating substantially less; my body may simply not have the protein to improve. I need to get a good critique of my nutrition. Or maybe just look into it myself; more beans and rice, less of the hash browns, that sort of thing.