As it inevitably must at some time, my diet went off the rails today.
Breakfast consisted of yogurt with banana and honey.
When the girls were out the door and on their way to school, I made for the pool by bike where I swam an easy mile (1600m) and finished the ride to work. Starbucks had run out of egg white wraps when I got there this morning so I settled for a chicken pie for my second breakfast. (There were some vegetables in the chicken pie but I am not sure I could give you a full rundown of the ingredients).
I had a work lunch today which was held at a vegetarian restaurant, so I went the pasta option with mushrooms, onions and Parmesan cheese in a white wine and cream sauce.
I decided to skip the soccer game this week in order to take some of the pressure off my Achilles tendon. But it is only very mildly sore and poses no real threat to my preparation.
Today I read a great article on motivation by Chris McCormac that I will link in here. It contains some really good insight into maintaining focus on the goal that you set yourself and how this can keep you getting up to do your training everyday, when really, you'd like to be taking it easy like friends and family around you.
In the evening I completed my training by riding from work to home, thereby fulfilling two goals. One of successfully negotiating the commute to work and the second of getting in some distance on the bike. The first part of the ride home was through some heavy tropical rain. One of the good things about rain in Singapore is that it is never cold, and you are very unlikely to catch any sort of chill from getting soaked to the skin. I thought I was in for a very hairy ride, because, even though I was not afraid of catching a chill, the breaks on my bike weren't having that big a retarding effect on my speed. However, once I got off Kent Ridge, the rain eased and I had a relatively dry ride home along Commonwealth Avenue.
Dinner was waiting for me. Chicken soup and vegetable quiche with salad. Excellent!
All in all another land mark day in the countdown to the 29th of September; 1600 m in the pool and 21 km on the bike.
Breakfast consisted of yogurt with banana and honey.
When the girls were out the door and on their way to school, I made for the pool by bike where I swam an easy mile (1600m) and finished the ride to work. Starbucks had run out of egg white wraps when I got there this morning so I settled for a chicken pie for my second breakfast. (There were some vegetables in the chicken pie but I am not sure I could give you a full rundown of the ingredients).
I had a work lunch today which was held at a vegetarian restaurant, so I went the pasta option with mushrooms, onions and Parmesan cheese in a white wine and cream sauce.
I decided to skip the soccer game this week in order to take some of the pressure off my Achilles tendon. But it is only very mildly sore and poses no real threat to my preparation.
Today I read a great article on motivation by Chris McCormac that I will link in here. It contains some really good insight into maintaining focus on the goal that you set yourself and how this can keep you getting up to do your training everyday, when really, you'd like to be taking it easy like friends and family around you.
In the evening I completed my training by riding from work to home, thereby fulfilling two goals. One of successfully negotiating the commute to work and the second of getting in some distance on the bike. The first part of the ride home was through some heavy tropical rain. One of the good things about rain in Singapore is that it is never cold, and you are very unlikely to catch any sort of chill from getting soaked to the skin. I thought I was in for a very hairy ride, because, even though I was not afraid of catching a chill, the breaks on my bike weren't having that big a retarding effect on my speed. However, once I got off Kent Ridge, the rain eased and I had a relatively dry ride home along Commonwealth Avenue.
Dinner was waiting for me. Chicken soup and vegetable quiche with salad. Excellent!
All in all another land mark day in the countdown to the 29th of September; 1600 m in the pool and 21 km on the bike.
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