P90X Day 72 (Day 86)

Weight: 195 lbs.

6.30a -> P90X Phase 3 Continues - Plyometrics
8.00a -> 14.5 mile bike ride, 51 min.
6.30p -> 15 mile bike ride, 58 min.

P90X Day 60 (Day 74): Day 60 Pictures

Weight: 197 lbs.

P90X Day 57 (Day 71)

Weight: 198 lbs.

6.30a -> P90X Phase 3 Starts - Chest & Back
8.00a -> 14.5 mile bike ride, 49 min.
6.30p -> 15 mile bike ride, 53 min.

P90X Day 56 (Day 70): Redondo Beach Triathlon

The day has come and gone. I was a little nervous at the start. Chris was not feeling too sick, but wasn't going to test it by competing today. He was there to support me along with Giannina and Una. He also compiled a pretty sweet little highlight reel of my day which you can see below. I'm pretty happy with my time, but even more so with the feeling I got when I finished. It was much more exhilarating than I ever thought it would be.

My swim was horribly slow, but that is to be expected when you're breast stroking your way through a .5 mile swim. Swimming is definitely not my strength. You can check out the results here.



Oh yeah, this was supposed to be a P90X rest day. And the workouts resume tomorrow with phase 3 starting.

P90X Day 51 (Day 65)

Weight: 197 lbs.

6.30a -> P90X Recovery Week for Phase 2 - Core Synergistics
8.00a -> 14.5 mile bike ride, 55 min.
6.30p -> 15 mile bike ride, 56 min.

Chris has fallen terribly ill this week. Some sort of viral thing. He hasn't done P90X this week. I still have only missed that one Kenpo day and have definitely made up for it. Hopefully he'll be okay for the Triathlon.

P90X Day 47 (Day 61): Kinda Stupid

So at some point in thinking I could accomplish any endurance task I wanted, I decided it might be a good idea to do an Iron Man Triathlon. Those are the toughest of all triathlons, The distances are almost silly. It's a 2.4 mile swim, follwed by a 112 mile bike and then cap it all off with a full Marathon (26.2 miles). I wasn't sure if I could actually do that, but I started to look into it.

A co-worker who had already done one the year prior and was in the midst of training for another pointed me in the right direction of what it would take. I found one Iron Man that was in August and we worked backwards from there in terms of training. Basically I was about 8 weeks out and the training called for being able to do a 4 hour bike ride (at least 50 miles) followed by a 2 hour run.

So after doing a P90X Legs & Back workout and Ab Ripper X, I headed out on my bike ride. I may have not mentioned this earlier but all of my biking is done on my 7-speed beach cruiser. I started out real strong, averaging a faster speed than ever before. I'm usually carrying a 15-25 lb. bag with clothes to change into for work. This time I had no bag and the lesser weight felt great.

After about 25 miles of flat riding on the coast I headed into the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Now those are some serious hills. The beach cruiser is not necessarily the best choice for this ride, but I made a much worse mistake. My beach cruiser does not have a water bottle cage so I didn't bring any of that with me. Of course I also didn't bring any food, energy bars or anything of the sort. At some point around mile 40, a little less than 2.5 hours in my body told me I needed water badly. Luckily I was smart enough to bring some cash with me and I stopped and got some water. I continued my ride thinking I was good to go.

I headed out of the peninsula and back to some coastal bike path riding. I was going okay for a while but at some point, my energy went way down. It was a strange feeling. My heart rate was dropping and I was starting to feel a bit dizzy. I made a couple of stops to splash some water on my face and ended up making it back okay. I rode 57 miles in just under 4 hours. I was not even going to attempt to run after that. I was exhausted and had made a serious mistake not having any food with me, not to mention a ready supply of water. That was a good lesson and I'm glad I didn't have any injuries as a result of that stupidity.