Nutrition update: Well it's 6:11 and I am sodaless for the day thus far. I'm not caffeine free ( I took an Excedrin and I drank a Green tea), but no Diet Pepsi has crossed my lips. I checked the Lipton Green Tea after I drank it and it has NutraSweet, so that won't be on my list to drink anymore either.
I am definitely an addict because even without the crushing headaches of caffeine withdrawal, my mind and body were calling for soda at multiple points today. I also can notice that my mood is just off, I'm overly sensitive and tad grumpy. I did promise my daughter $5 every time she sees me with a soda, so my cheapness should overcome my addiction. It was pretty funny though when she told me she was feeling short on money, so go ahead and have one if I want...
I've eaten ok today, not perfect but ok. My focus on food has started with eliminating the evil brown liquid that I consume 40-60 oz. of daily.
Exercise update: Today was a down day, so I just went for a 40 minute walk with the dog. Tomorrow is supposed to be a swim, but I'm not sure any pools are open, so I may switch to biking. I feel like I can be flexible with my training for the Castle Rock Tri since I'm not trying to go particularly fast. For instance, the schedule I have in my book has a taper week prior to the race, which I have decided to mostly ignore. I'll take it easy a couple days prior to the race, but I don't want the schedule to create a mental perception that I've hit an end goal when I do the race. Too often that sort of thinking leads to a little time off, which in turn becomes 3 years off ...
Instead I want to treat it as if I'm training right through it with my eye on the October Urbanathlon. Also, I don't know if I'll get to it this week, but I need to get some strength training in before October, or the Urbanathlon will be extra difficult; crossing the Monkey bars, climbing walls etc.
I'm trying to connect with Danni (my trainer) this week, maybe we'll do some strength training, although her help in the pool has been good too. I'm trying not to micromanage myself, my brother told me don't over think, just move,so that's what I'm trying to do...I think:)
Random Musings: I think I've mentioned I'm moving my old catalog of music from my CD's to iTunes. I am consistently amazed at the power of music to evoke memory and thought. I rediscovered the Wallflowers the other day; they could have been really great, what happened?
Today, I was listening to deep cuts off Tom Petty's Wildflowers. Perhaps I'm overreacting, but if London Calling isn't the best album of all time, this has to be. It's almost 20 years old, and it's just perfect. I always fund Tom Petty to be fascinating because his best work (in my opinion) came deep into his career. He was good with the Refugees in the late 70's and 80's, but between Full Moon fever (his first solo album), Wildflowers, and Into The Great Wide Open, he became one of the greats.
Like I said, music is deeply associated with memory and time and these three albums came during a fairly turbulent period for me from 1989-1995. Maybe that's why they remain so powerful. They are connected to falling in and out of love, dropping in and out of college, and finding a place to plant my feet and start climbing to a real adult life.
Wildflowers in particular is Petty's masterpiece to me. I have visceral memories of listening to it in a series of apartments I lived in ranging from La Crosse to Arcadia to Fountain City through the mid to late 90's. It goes right along with a life arc that had a bottom and a bounce it in somewhere and led me to my life today. It's funny what you end up grateful for, when at the time, it seems like the end of the world, but in many ways was the beginning.
Well, I'm getting a bit deep (or drippy my spouse would say), so I'll think I'll end it for today. here is a quote from one of those tracks I rediscovered today. Hopefully it means something to you, but if it doesn't, that's cool too. I hope you have some music or poetry or books that effect you on an emotional level.
From Crawling Back to You on Wildflowers:
I'm so tired of being tired,
Sure as night will follow day,
Most things I worry about,
Never happen anyway
Deep huh:)
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