Cake and Training

I had a late breakfast today so I figured a small lunch- a few tomatoes from the garden, a protein shake, and a small piece of our Anniversary cake would be a good lunch (of course I did, it involved cake!).  I moved my run to tomorrow to give my legs a little more time to rest from our Harvest Moon Half Ironman bike we did on Monday (45 miles of the course).  The story with that is I put arch support in my bike shoes and the first bike I did with them was a long ride.  I should have known to start off easy with them like you would anything new you change to your training equipment but I was thinking since I have insoles in my running shoes that basically do the same thing I would be ok, right? Nope.  So I have some pretty sore calves and they hurt when I walk. (Crossing my fingers I'll be good for the race!)

There's about 1/8 left :-D

Back to my meal choices.  Apparently what I ate wasn't enough since I was starting to feel hungry so I had a little snack before swim- a Bonk Breaker bar and some GU Chomps (YUM!), which I had on my way to Denver.  The first part of the workout was ok- a few 200's warm up and some drills done at an alarmingly fast pace for a drill set.  The next set is what got me- 3x 100's, 3x 75's, 3x 50's, 3x 25's (FR/BK/BR) all continuous- no rests or stopping, followed by 5x 100's on 1:35.  For those of you who know what the sets mean and can decipher the workout I just mentioned, you know how tough that was in the fastest lane where the first person dictates the speed of the workout.  For those of you reading that don't have an idea, I can break it down a little further into laps- 30 fast laps (lap being down to the other end) followed by 5x 4 laps swam really fast- almost with no rest. 

So going back to what I ate today, this was obviously not enough to fuel my workout.  I guess I was thinking I would be able to get away with fewer calories (and maybe lose a  little weight before my race), but it ended up being a detriment to my workout and I had to hop out, with my head hung, before my workout (in my mind) was complete.

It might have been a blessing in disguise since I'm doing a hilly Half Ironman on Sunday in East Aurora (Harvest Moon) and I will probably need more rest than I have planned to give myself.