Taking the Reins

Wow, today was pretty rough….and it’s only just after noon!

 Met Coach and my fellow divas down at the trailhead, where we learned about Coach’s awesome International-distance race yesterday.  She was 20 seconds away from medaling, so we were kind of bummed for her!  At any rate, she sent us up the hill for 2 miles, then down for 2, and then repeat 2 more times.  It was pretty tough!  I think we were averaging 10 mph on the way up and 24 mph on the way down.  Suffice it to say, it was a BLAST going downhill, but not quite sure it was worth all the sucking wind to get UP the hill?!  After the bike, which took me about 52 minutes (and I have to brag here– only 3 Divas ended up ahead of me), we took off on a 15 minute run as part of our “BRICK” workout.  I was first out of transition, because I’m stupid :), and off I went on my run.  Legs felt like jelly again, but that was gone after two minutes of running.  I was passed by the threesome that were ahead of me on the bike, but that was all good.  Ran my own race, although I have to say that running is by far my weakest event.  I can run/walk a 10-minute mile, but I feel like I will die the entire time.  Need to figure out how to bring my heart rate down after all of that.  Anyways, I returned first so naturally Coach thought I was super fast.  I hated to disappoint, but I admitted that I turned around first!!

So, back home I came to shower up.  Thanks to Jynell’s insistence on eating more activity points, I played around on Sparkpeople and plugged in my current weight and the calories that I burn, on average, every week.  Sparkpeople has me at 1880-2200 calories a day!  Holy cow.  I’m going to post what I’ve eaten through this very moment below (ends with the bun, for when I update later)….and Sparkpeople says it’s 877 calories.  Holy cow.  I have to eat 900 more calories today?!   We’ll see about that one.

Anyway, here’s the binge.  You can see where I’m having some issues in reconciling WW points with Sparkpeople.  Do I just take more points?  I only burned 700 calories today….

EDIT:  I bought a road bike!!!  OMG, they are so expensive, but I bit the bullet and just went for it after DH encouraged me.  Got a flaming orange Trek 1000, and I think I like it!  So, next week I hope to be ahead of all the others on the “A” team during my ride!