Monday, February 18, 2008

Week 1, Day 1 - Shane

I will consider today my official Week 1, Day 1. It's the first Sunday since I started, and I will be taking Saturdays off from exercise while I eat and drink whatever I feel like.

Exercise - Biked 10 miles in 27 minutes, then ran 5k (3.1 miles) in 24:05 (EDIT for clarification - this was on a treadmill; I'm not actually that good). I really was trying to get my time under 24 minutes for the run, but it kinda got away from me.

Post-workout meal - One peanut butter sandwich on whole grain, 2 salami/pastrami/ham/provolone sandwiches with lettuce, tomato, onion, lettuce on whole grain. Not the best of all possible meals, but good enough for now.

Other food throughout the day -
Salad consisting of 2 cups spinach, 3 hard boiled eggs, 2 tablespooons goat chevre, half an avocado, 5 olives, and a few slivers of red onion. No dressing because the fats from the avocado, cheese, eggs, and olives give it a good enough texture to eat plain.
3 sticks of string cheese.
2 servings each carrots and celery, with about 3 tablespoons bleu cheese dressing (sue me, I'm not giving up the bleu cheese).
1 can sardines
1/2 can black beans, with about 1/4 cup of shredded Colby and Monterey Jack
1 apple
1 handful smoked almonds

Other - Got new running shoes (Mizuno Wave Rider 11) and borrowed a friend's copy of The Triathlete's Training Bible by Joe Friel this weekend.

There was nothing else going on today, so I went ahead and tweaked the layout of this page a little bit - what was supposed to take an hour at most took around 4 hours. But I'm happy with the results and I hope to never touch CSS or XML again.

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