When you’re a workaholic trying to convert to having a work/life balance, everything becomes an obstacle.

From telling myself to go home around 6:30pm to reminding myself to not *always* work through lunch - it’s sometimes hard.

I kept workouts light during last weeks recovery time to try and spend time with my boys. The weekend was amazing. We went to the park to eat lunch, played video games, and I kept on my recovery training.

As we’re into the last four weeks of Half-Ironman training, I’m not only excited for what’s to come, but I’m nervous as well. It’s my longest distance and it’s hard to think I can do it. But the time and effort have been put in and I plan to finish.

Additionally, I’m going to a conference for work that I’ll be at over the next few days. Thankfully, I only have an 8-mile run tomorrow and have shifted my swim to Friday when I come back home to manage my training.

I’m learning very quickly that if you want something to happen, you have to make it happen yourself. And that I also have to learn what is and isn’t mine to control at work. Those in combination is creating a very tough, but needed, learning/growing experience for both my work life and my personal life.

I’m so excited to be going to GDC - I hope to take lots of pictures!

Have any of you guys battled the work/life balance and somehow managed to do all that AND train?

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Training has been AWESOME this week. Of course, jam-packed in the middle of everything else, I’ve been doing a lot of my training at night this week.

The doctor the doctor. I haven’t had a Primary Care Physician since moving here, so with the side pain that happened after being sick, I figured I should find someone.  I used a really neat Mobile/Web App called Zoc Doc that I found in one of my Women’s fitness magazines.  I was able to set my appointment up and find a doctor quick without delay.  I found a DO and figured it’d be good to try something new. Thankfully, after two visits with her (she discovered my alignment was completely off), my body feels great. My hips were rotated, my ribs were offset, everything was just not doing well. 

At first, I found it hard to believe in what DOs do, but to be honest, I’m so happy I went to her - she has a new permanent patient!

Every workout this week was awesome, but did not feel awesome.  Over the weekend, I had some long workouts. I ran 10.5 miles yesterday and biked 56 miles today with a quick 1-1.5 mile run just to feel out the legs.  While this weekend felt AMAZING, the workouts throughout the week felt short of: most of all, my Wednesday Brick of Bike/Run. 45 minutes bike/45 minutes run. I went into the run feeling fine, and the first two miles actually smiling and feeling like the next two miles would go just as quickly.

Suddenly, my legs felt heavy and I shifted mindset to just finishing the workout to eat dinner.  I think part of it was mindset, part could also have been that I was working on breaking in my Ghost 4’s for the first time. Regardless, I told myself I still did the workout and Justin reminded me not every workout would feel so great. 

The puppy is feeling not so well. Being a GSD Mama, I tend to over-worry about Drake when he feels ill. Normally it’s because he acts COMPLETELY FINE but his diarrhea says otherwise.  Having some close friends who are dog lovers, I call them for advice and we also call our vet. Knowing diarrhea is completely normal for dogs, we treated him like normal and continue to hope the next day won’t require Oxy Cleaner, a roll of Paper Towels and a Shop Vac.  While I’m glad my babes is feeling better, I have the mama tendencies of being worried so I need to do whatever I can to reduce that stress. Especially now!

Last Recovery Week. We ended today’s bike ride/quick run on a good note. Between last weeks 52 miler and today’s 56 miler I improved my pace by 1 mph! That’s big for me, especially since we increased mileage and I yet again chose to ride through Santiago Canyon. I hate hills, but know they’re good for me. Like vegetables.  Well, to be honest. I actually love vegetables now. But it took me growing up and actually trying them to love them. I’ve tried hills, I still am not a fan of the incline. But the descents are always super fun.

Cannot wait for this recovery week. Oddly enough, it’s looking a lot like my old training plans when I did Sprints and Olympics. I am so proud of the progress I’ve made in the past 4 months.

Onto another week!  Enjoy your last few hours of weekend freedom <3

PS FRIENDS: The TV Photo is me enjoying some much needed gaming time. Right now I’m playing Final Fantasy XIII-2. At the pace I’m going, I’ll beat it in July.

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