Day Six:

Curried home fries made from three red C potatoes and an egg white omelet for breakfast started the day off pretty nicely. We opened a new can of coffee this morning and even though it's the same brand we usually have, this batch has a much stronger smokey flavor. I thought I'd mis-measured the grounds or something. I had a small cheese sandwich with fresh basil along with an apple for lunch and wrapped things up with pinto bean soup and two small pieces of cornbread. Considering that it was just the one bowl of soup, I'm going to have to guess that today fell into the 2200 kcal range.

I finally got to the pool, but almost feel like I would have been better off without it. My swim has swum, apparently, as I was hard pressed to finish my first hundred meters without falling back on the breast stroke.

I didn't think I'd look like this:


but I didn't expect to look like this either:


I'm going back on Tuesday, but I'm going to have to really think hard about the triathlon in September. I tacked on a couple of easy miles on the treadmill, mostly to take the edge off the drubbing my ego suffered in the pool, and wrapped up with some push-pulls and a couple sets of one-legged squats.


My bike is still in the shop and since they'll probably be closed tomorrow, I'll probably leave it with them until Wednesday's group ride. It's been close to a year since I've ridden with a group--I hope I remember how.