Training Log: Entry 3437

AM WORKOUT (0400 wake up via alarm)

**12 LABORS: SLAYING THE LERNAEAN HYDRA**

*Tactical Barbell Operator* Cycle 1, Week 2, Workout 2

Weighted vest treadmill walk

Speed: 3.0

Incline: 3.0 for first 45 minutes, 4.0 for final 45 minutes

Total Distance: 4.5 miles

Weight: 45lbs

Notes:

* TB calls for a 90 minute ruck for E work.  This was more leisurely than a ruck, but given I haven’t walked with a vest in quite a while, and I haven’t done that for 90 minutes ever, I decided to ease into it.  I upped the incline at the halfway point to add a little more challenge.  I’m pleased with how it went, and at the end there was discomfort but not anyting intolerable.  I wanna keep this up as an every-other-week thing, per the Black Protocol, and make this my primary prep for my 10 mile run.  If I get used to just moving at a constant rate for 90 minutes, I’ll be in a good way.  This got me over 11k steps before 0600, so that’s a good way to start the day.

* I also managed to get in 8k steps yesterday in the hour during my kid’s show choir practice, so it’s been a good time for walking.  It’s good to be active again.  I definitely appreciated the “softening up” ala John McCallum I did from Oct through Dec, but I like moving.  In general, I like the idea of reserving that period of the year for softening up, and then, as cliché as it is, starting the year off getting back in shape.  Oct is my birthmonth, followed by Thanksgiving in Nov, Christmas in Dec, and our new year’s cruises.  It’s a great time for feasting, celebrating, and easing off the throttle of training.  And once that’s all over, everyone else is in New Year’s mode, so cleaning up the diet and getting back to activity doesn’t feel out of the norm at all.  I may be onto something.

* Had my family meal last night, and even there I’m being a little more conservative than I was during the gaining.  I’m not restricting myself: I’m simply not eating BEYOND satiety at this point.  We did some 4 cheese tortellini with garlic bread, and then I had 2 of my wife’s oatmeal peanut butter cookies with some raw local honey alongside a more reasonable slice of homemade peppermint cheesecake and a small mug of Fairlife skim milk.  

* Digestion finally seems to have sorted itself out.

* Tang Soo Do tonight.  This is “Wildcard/Cardio Week”, so should be some physical activity in store.  We’re skipping class on Wed and making it up on Sat, due to schedule.