Monthly Archives: October 2008

Training:

40 minutes on the trainer.  Watched the beginning of stage 17 of the 2006 TDF. The one where Landis obliterates the field after blowing up the day before.

Eating:

Breakfast: piece of fruit. vitamin water. soft pretzel.

Lunch: PB sandwich. pretzels. Tall glass of lemonade.

Snack: granola bar. 2 coffees. Soft pretzel. vitamin water.

Dinner: salad. pasta. 

Desert:Ice Cream.

Yesterday, 10-26:No training. Eating:  Lets say I didn’t hold back.  And leave it at that.

Training: 60 miles on the Tri-State ride. Valley Forge and back.  Ugly climb on the way out to the park.  I blew up pretty bad.  Probably because I didn’t so much eat breakfast pre-ride.  Also had 2 beers last night.  For the first time in maybe a month?  month in a half.  I just don’t drink much.

Eating:Yes!

Breakfast: an apple.  Some gatorade on the ride(home made gatorade:  1 cup OJ, 1 scoop sugar, 1 tbspoon salt, 1/2 koolaid flavor packet, and add water).

Lunch:Pancakes, bacon, 2 decafe coffees, 2 glasses of water. half a pear.

Snack: A smoothie from Orange Julius. Long story.

Dinner: Homemade Pizza w extra sliced tomato.

Snack: another pear.

Eating? Yes.

bfast: OJ, Cheerios.

lunch:dumplings. apple. apple cider.

Snack:another apple(fujis very hard. very juicy.) rice crispy treat.

Snack II: vitamin water. pretzel.

Dinner: 3 pieces of lasagna

Snack 3: Rice crispy treat. apple.

Committing to write a little something every day is not east.  Anyway, Here is a short round up of stuff since my last post:

Training:

Sunday, 10-20: 65 miles mostly with Tri-State Velo.

Monday, 10-21: 30 minutes on the trainer, listening to Sugar’s Copper Blue.

Tuesday, 10-22, Wednesday, 10-23: Nothing.

Thursday, 10-23: 45 minutes on the trainer. Listening to The Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls in America.

Eating:

Yeah, I didn’t so much keep track.

Today:

Breakfast: Decafe coffee, apple.

Snack:coffee, granola bar

Lunch: 2 slices of pizza. tall glass of Sprite :(

Snack: Lemonade mixed w water. popcorn. Some pretzels.

Dinner: Turkey pot pie. apple cider. apple for desert.

Training: None. Watched a Cross race.  Hung out with Graham.

Eating:

Breakfast: banana. pretzel. Vitamin water. Orange Juice.

Lunch: eh. not really.  grazed on some graham crackers and shared a banana with Graham.

Snack: Home made rice crispy treat.

Dinner: Ate 3/4s of a home made pizza w extra sliced tomatos and onions. no desert.

Was busy finishing a book yesterday.  Didn’t get a chance to write.  Didn’t do much anyway.

Training: nothing.

Eating:

Breakfast: bannana, vitamin water, pretzel. coffee.

Lunch: 2 slices of pizza. Lemonade.

Snack:bag of popcorn.

Dinner: Chicken Stir Fry.(late no after dinner snack.)

Today:

Training: 30 minute run at lunch.

Eating: Vitamin water, banana, pretzel, glass of OJ 2 cups of coffee thru morning.

Lunch: 2 PB sandwich. Popcorn. lemonade.

Snack: Granola bar. Pretzel. Vitamin water.

Dinner: Lasagna.

I should not at this time my current weight: 181 when I woke up this morning. I guess I’ll weigh myself on wednesdays from here on out.

Work: None.

Eat:

Breakfast: 2 pretzels, vitamin water, pear.

1 cup of coffee.

Lunch: 2 slices of pizza. large lemonade

Snack: Bag of popcorn. Lemonade.

Large glass of water.

Dinner: Chicken burrito. Chips and Guac. 2 Lemonades.

Work:

Around 40 miles riding round trip work commute.  Easy pace.  Exact time?  Pulse rate?

Don’t know.  I have a nice bike computer, but I took it off over a month ago.  Not putting it back on for a while.

Eat:

Breakfast: 1/2 bagel. trial size cliff bar, glass of OJ, Glass of Milk, Granola bar, Apple, coffee.

Snack:Coffee

Lunch: Large Iced TEa. chips.  grilled chicken sandwich w lettuce tomato onion.

Snack:microwave popcorn(whole bag…uggh). Lemonade.

post ride: vitamin water. 1 soft pretzel.

Dinner: pasta w sauce. milk. salad.

I should point out here that I am taking it easy for a few weeks before I go back to periodized training.  Still, my goal here is to record honestly, what I eat, and what I do, training wise on and off the bike.

Here goes: 

Ran for about 30 minutes at lunch today.  Probably about the 3rd run I’ve done this month.  Still hurts alot right above the knees.

Food I can remember eating:

Breakfast:Vitamin Water. Pear. piece of toast.

Snack: 2 cups coffee w sugar. Apple.

Lunch:2x PB sandwich. chips. soda.

Dinner: Lasagna.  Iced Tea, unsweetened. Bowl of ice cream