Lip balm makes a good anti-chafing agent...

...ah, the things you learn when you just moved into a new apartment and can't find the bodyglide. ;)

Woke up early, around 4 a.m. Lay in bed until 4:45 or so. Realized that I didn't know where the bodyglide was, and I wanted to run today. Got up and spent a little too much time looking for it.

Ever notice how you get used to how you look in one mirror, but when you look in a different mirror, you are surprised by what you see? I've noticed that in my new apartment, I look like I'm getting some results! My upper body is definitely more built up than it was! My chest, shoulders, back, arms, and hips definitely look sexier ;). Very cool. Especially since the scale still remains stuck =P.

Morning training:
Walked to gym.
Speed day on the treadmill (1.0 incline, of course)!:
10 minutes warm up (jog 5.0 mph).
Ran 6 one-minute sprints (7.8 mph) with 3 minutes jogging in between.
Jogged/walked 10 minutes to recover.
Ran 4 more sprints, with longer periods of jogging/walking to recover in between.
That made for 60 minutes, total. Walked to cool down for five minutes.
Then, hit the hardwood floors for some yoga stretches. Stretched for 15 or 20 minutes. That felt REALLY good.
Walked home.

I'm definitely beat =).

Breakfast (8:40 a.m.)- 5 HUGE bananas. Perfectly ripe. Yum.
Lunch (11:00 a.m.) - 6 fuyu persimmons.
Lunch II (1:00 p.m.) - 15 oz. baby spinach, 2.5 lbs grape tomatoes.
Lunch III 3:45 p.m. - 5 fuyu persimmons

Bed around 6:15.

When you've EARNED your food...

...NOTHING tastes as good, or is as appealing, as a mono meal of fruit. NOTHING.

Got up this morning at 7:25 a.m. Felt sort of low and down - I'm feeling kind of emotional about moving out of my apartment (I've lived here for 2 and a half years).

Morning training:
This morning's workout was probably the most dripping-wet, drenched-with-sweat workout of the month (or even of the past 2 months, or...).
Walked to the gym.
Treadmill (1.0 incline) - 10 minutes jog (worked up to 5 mph). Then did 6 one-minute sprints (7.7 mph, increasing to 8 mph), with 3 minutes jogging (5mph) in between. The whole treadmill workout was about 33 minutes.
Then I went to a 1-hour indoor cycling class. While I was adjusting my bike, I asked somebody if he knew who was teaching today. When he said "Austin," I said, "umm...maybe I shouldn't have run sprints before class, haha." Needless to say, it was an INTENSE workout. Sprints, 2 TOUGH hill climbs, speed work while climbing hills, etc, etc, etc. I was DRIPPING when we were only 15 minutes in. But I was able to push and stick it out for the workout, especially since he played some really good tunes. I'm really glad I did. (And I'm even glad I ran the sprints before class, haha).
Walked home.

Then I hit the persimmons. Had 7 fuyu persimmons for breakfast around 10:15 a.m., as soon as I got home from the workout. Tasted like the best meal I had ever had. Nothing more satisfying than a mono meal after a tough workout.

12:15 - 8 more fuyu persimmons

Took a nap in the afternoon, then did some moving stuff.

5:00 p.m. - 1 pineapple, some tangerines (12ish?), 10 oz. baby spinach, 18 oz. tomatoes, 1 haas avocado.

I really enjoyed all my food today. It tastes good when you've worked hard. =)

Ate more in the evening, not because I was hungry, but in order to procrastinate...didn't want to be moving. ate tomatoes, tangerines, mac nut butter, tahini.

Back to it!

FINALLY got a much needed good night's sleep last night. 6:00 p.m. last night until 4:30 this morning. It feels really good to consistently go to bed early enough that I don't need an alarm clock in the morning. Feels great to wake up naturally and not to an unnatural noise.

Morning training:
Walk to gym.
Warm up on Treadmill - 23 minutes (2 miles). (Yesterday, I read that, in order to make up for the fact that there is no wind resistance indoors, you should set the incline on the treadmill to 1 if you want to make the speeds comparable to similar speeds outdoors. So, previously, I had been using 0 for the incline. Today I used 1.) Took a few minutes to "get going." Maybe it's because of the artic temps outside that it takes longer to limber up.
45 minute indoor cycling class with Tony. The first half was all speed work, which I'm not used to, so it was a good workout! I definitely had lactic acid collecting around my knees, ankles, shins. The second half was mostly climbing. I was pretty sweaty by the end of class.
15 minutes pull-up practice - 3 sets each (to failure) assisted chin-ups and assisted pull-ups, with rest/stretching in between each set.
Walked home.

Today at the gym, I was talking to someone I knew but hadn't seen in a while. It took her a few minutes to realize who I was! She said I looked so good, she didn't recognize me! Again, these types of interactions are reassuring, since I've actually gained some weight and not lost. Makes me feel more reassured that I'm still having visible results.

And besides, even though I may be no lighter than I was when I started doing this in July, I'm definitely fitter by leaps and bounds. I can push much harder, cardio-wise, and run faster, and cycle harder, and lift more, and hang from a bar, etc, etc, etc.

It is a happy morning!

Food:
7:30 - 5 small bananas (that's all I was hungry for at the time)
9:00 a.m. - 13 apple bananas (finally got hungry!)
later in the morning - more apple bananas
noon - sucked the juice out of some tangerines (8? 10?)
2:15 p.m. - some small sunburst tangerines (12? 14?). 2 lbs. grape tomatoes. 1 large orange bell pepper. 10 oz. baby spinach. more tangerines.
Around 5:30 p.m. - some macadamia nut butter (about 2 or 2.5 oz), a few more tangerines.
Later - 36 oz. tomatoes.

Went to bed a bit late (9:30 or 10 p.m.), since I worked a bit on moving down the the first floor.