Another tri-weekly "fortnighly" update

Last 3 weeks summary:

 Distance: 453 Km (longest ride 70 Km)

 # of Rides: 16 rides

 Weight: 98.7 Kg

Not quite the 7 rides a week. Life has gotten in the way at times, as it can do. Hey I’m riding a Gran Fondo here, not riding pro-conti.

 I have though just yesterday decided to take my standard weekday rides from a 20-22 Km ride to more a 28-30 Km ride. Not a big jump, but it’ll add up to another 30-40 odd km a week. I’m also finding on my longer Saturday rides that everything is starting to hurt a bit from about 25 Ks in (and that’s made the push for 100 hard). Hopefully ratcheting up my standard week day distance might help address that.

I’ve just sacked the no sugar diet. I started it mid July, and come end of August I’m still around the 99 kilo mark. Y YOU NO MOVE SCALES???  Granted I had a week in Sydney which I was back on a ”normal” diet, but outside of that I stuck to the no sugar thing pretty damn tight for the 6 weeks (not to mention I punched out some solid miles on the bike) and had bugger all to show for it (I've bounced around 98/99 - there's no sense it's trending anywhere good). I’m thinking the fact that I rarely drink and we eat a lot at home cooking from scratch meant it wasn’t that big a shift at a physiological level. F#&%$@$k. I thought/hoped no sugar was my ticket to success.

 

So as of yesterday I’m on the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet. There’s some decent science behind it – it’s a low carb, high GI, low energy affair, but they also crank up the protein to try keep you full (and the high GI helps on that regard as well). It’s clearly been designed by scientists rather than chefs though. The meals look nice, but are pretty damn bland (at least so far). A mere 83 days of the diet left to get through……..

 I was starting to panic a little – still haven’t done a century ride (keeping in mind I'm doing the 200 at AC), still racking up close to a century on the scales. I do though need to remember the Alpine Classic is still 5 months away. Getting closer, but it’s not tomorrow either. 

The Triweekly Fortnighly update

Last 3 weeks summary:

Distance: 526 Km (longest ride 79 Km)

# of Rides: 17 rides 

Weight: 98.3 Kg

Pretty good 3 weeks that. 13 Km improvement on my longest ride, and this most recent week I punched out 193 Km. Would like to try a century ride (100 Km) in the next two weekends.

Other good news is the scales have started to shift. Runners often say "you can't outrun your spoon" and I guess that's true of cycling. Adjusting to sugar free sucked hard for a week (it's in fucking everything), but I now feel reasonably adjusted.