November Round Up

November, as always, was filled with some ups and some downs.

Swimming: 700m (.43)
Cycling: 13.22 mi
Running: 26.53 mi
Lifting: 12 sessions (4:34)
Other: six sessions hockey (5:57), 30 walks (13:21)

For traveling most of the first half of the month, I'm not terribly upset. Swimming was low because, well, it's swimming, but I was also waiting to head to the pool for when B was home since we had to refigure out our membership through the weird program we have through his insurance. Should I have swum more? Oh absolutely yes.

Same with cycling. I can use the excuse that it got cold ... but that's what I have a trainer for.

Running, however - I continued with my every-other-day roll even WITH the travel and officially had my highest mileage month yet. Yes, at 26 miles.

I finished up my lifting challenge ... and then promptly pretty much stopped, so I started a new one at the end of the month (which I'm still doing).

Hockey season is still rolling for me and my friend Tarsh with Stomp the Pedal did a November walking challenge so instead of 1k/day or 30 minutes, I chose a mile/day. And successfully managed.

Given the abysmal swimming and cycling numbers - and already some logistical problems - I'm making the tough decision to pull out of Roth and defer it until 2027 (which I can do). I need to do a lot more research in terms of hotels and how to manage the race site - which is only made more difficult by it being in another country with a language that did not go so well when I attempted to learn it - and I'm already so behind the 8-ball with that.

And I really do need to figure out my shit. And since I'm essentially going from couch-to-140.6 again ... seven months isn't enough to get myself faster than I've ever been.

So, I'm being smart. I may, however, sign up for USAT Sprint Nationals, since I apparently qualified at Brineman. So there's that.