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I am amazed at what athletes can eat while training. Including myself. At training camp I calculated I ate 7500 cal in 2 days. That is over 3 days of food in 2 days. And it wasn’t just me, I was joined by over 40 other athletes that were eating as if we were starved. I saw athletes eat a large snickers bar, 2 bottles of pepsi just for a snack during the ride. I managed to eat 3 plates of pasta in 1 meal and was hungry 2 hrs afterwards. Boy the food we eat

So I wonder if my body is just telling me stop this madness. Stop this biking for 4 hr and then running. I made for it. Or maybe it is just that every time I visit family in dc I get sick.
So after 4 days of fighting it I had to give into the microscopic organisms that have taken control. Had to call in a day sick at work and hence no workouts either

So as days of training start to go by , you question your sanity. You question what you want to do, what you want to achieve out of 1 race. After a couple of hard days in a training week , your body starts to feel the wear and tear. You feel mentally burnt from work and the workouts, you feel physically tired, your muscles feel fatigued even after a rest, you search your inner self to find out if you have it in you to do the next workout. Is that what it takes ??

A lot of triathletes talk about paying your dues. Is this what I own to the gods IM.

And it is official we all get addicted to fatty food. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/28/fatty.foods.brain/ . Bring on the crack onion rings for brain

And all I can think about is bike, bike, bike.

So for the last week I have been doing different triathlon tests. Just so I can get some metrics to measure my progress over time. I did my last vdot test and was suprised my vdot number has not moved much from 43. I was able to run 3mi in 22min.

After that it was a harrowing amount of work. I had to work 12hr days to get some projects ready. And on top of that 2 major snowstorms destroyed any structured training.

So now in the beginning of this week which is the build phase of the training, I have to get real focus on this race.

So after taking a couple of days off training. And do a full week of the scheduled workouts I got slammed by work. The whole of last week was spent getting projects up to date, writing code, reviewing code and projects. Finally using the extra holiday on presidents day a breather.

Now it is back to workswork. The little known endurance nation saying , referring to I need to start back up. Only 160days left. I have got to make every day count from here to the IM

Last week I had several ephinay moment about triathlons and racing. On a train ride back home as I was wondering that I consistently work 60+hr/weeks , I did the calculation of how many hours of training does the average triathlete do in a year.

So lets say you are doing an IM , you will hit at avg of 10-15 hr /week, peaking at maybe closer to 25hr a week. That is roughly 21-32 days of training in a year , not counting days/weeks off. Now roughly 1/3 of that time (possibly more) is spent on the bike, a average biker produces 250+ watts on the bike that is roughly 34.6 Megawatt(hrs) of power. That is enough power that a small biking club (15-20) people can power a small apt.

This year at the end of the year I am going to total up my figures of total of each sport and reflect on them.

All this almost makes me wonder if I didn’t do this what would I do with all the spare time I have. hmmm.

Rhian and I finally convinced ourselves that it would be fun to go skiing with zara and kamil. My niece and nephew have never been skiing and somehow after rhian torturing me while teaching me skiing we both felt it was time to pass it on.

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2 weeks before the philly marathon and I want to get away from it all. I want to get away from training, from the same environment, from work. So R and I decided to take an overdue trip to bean-town. On the one promise that this time I would not wear a yankees baseball cap throughout our trip.

We luckily got a great hotel by the harbor thanks to some co-workers. On sat morning we drove to bean-town taking detour to meetup with a couple of friends in hartford. By the time we got to boston it was 3pm and I was ready to crash. Took a quick nap and went out to visit some of the sites.

The one thing I have to question is why boston restaurants have absurdly long waits. We waited for a spot at neptune oyster bar for over 1 1/2 hrs. Seriously it is as if there is a shortage of space in boston to eat.

On sat I went for an early morning run and then met up with abbass for brunch