Training Log: Entry 3495

AM WORKOUT (0325 natural wake up, tossed and turned until 0355 alarm)

**12 LABORS: STEALING THREE OF THE GOLDEN APPLES OF HESPERIDES**

*Tactical Barbell Operator* Cycle 2, Week 5, Workout 4

“ALL RUCKED UP”

Treadmill walk w/45lb vest

Speed: 3.8

Incline: 5.0

Time: 90 minutes

Distance: 5.7 miles

BREAKFAST (details to follow)

Short walk w/dogs

Notes:

* Decided on this name for the workout because my focus was on the incline vs the footspeed.  3.8 is my comfortably uncomfortable pace: it’s faster than my normal walking pace, but not my “this really sucks” walking pace of 4.2mph.  At incline 5, it satisified my normal criteria of me wanting to quit on the first lap but being able to hold on for the whole workout, and according to my watch this was the first time I held a high intensity heart rate for 100 minutes, which means it’s more challenging than what I did last week at 4.2mph and 1 incline, even though, according to the calorie calculator on the treadmill this was an “easier” workout, burning about 150 fewer calories.  Data is interesting that way.

* Primary driver of this change in approach is that my left foot’s arch is still tender from last week, and Tang Soo Do seems to trigger it as well.  I remember walking fast caused it initially, and I re-triggered it in the last 15 minutes of this walk, but the pain didn’t last like it did for the entire walk last time, so I’d say that’s progress.  Since I couldn’t move fast, I decided to up the challenge with the incline, moving upwards, hence “all rucked UP”.  I’m clever like that.

* On the topic of Tang Soo Do, last night was an even better workout than Tuesday.  Basics week tends to be good for that.  Lots of combination techniques and open hand forms.   We’ve got it again tonight. We also got in a 3 mile family walk last night, and I was able to get in my daily sandbag and throws.  That daily approach is working well, but it doesn’t carry the obsession that my previously “daily work” did.  I’m doing this with an end in goal, rather than the work being the goal itself.  I may try to continue this moving forward, along with my goal of actually implementing some daily work chins to re-build my back, but, of course, Chaos is the plan.

* Breakfast was the same thing it’s been all week: 1lb of grassfed New Zealand leg of lamb, air fried with spray duck fat and salt, 3 hardboiled pastured eggs, 5 whites mixed with 1 tablespoon of grassfed beef tallow and a piece of liver.  I, legit, love this breakfast, and I weighed in at 80.0 kg after my walk.  Yes: part of that is sweating out weight, but I’ve effectively dropped 4.6kg in 2 weeks time, which is absolutely bonkers and speaks VERY highly to the effectiveness of this maximum definition diet.  I honestly feel like the dude from Thinner, when he’s raiding the fridge and says to his wife “Does it LOOK like I’m dieting?”  I am eating SUCH wonderful satiating meals and seeing myself lean out.

* Sleep was weird. I slept very well and felt restored, but at 0325 my brain woke up and decided to solve all the problems in the world.  Made it easier to get out of bed, because I knew I wasn’t going to get any more sleep.

* Today will mark day 7 of gum sobriety: my last piece was last week, when I walked on the treadmill.  I skipped it today, and still breathed through my nose for the workout.  

* My travel is officially locked in from 14-18 Apr.  I already secured myself a hotel with a kitchen and full fridge that’s down the road from a Safeway, so I have no concerns about eating.  I’m also 50 miles away from an In n Out, so I’m definitely going to make that trip.  Plan is to show up, buy some steak, eggs and butter and be set.  I’ll also save quite a bit of cash by not needing to go out to eat all the time (because I can make a better steak than I can get at a restaurant for a fraction of the price), and with it being the week after my comp, I can just focus on getting in some walks and conditioning workouts and maybe spend some time finding my maxes for my next program.