ski legs

Got our first day of the season in on Sunday! It's funny that a ski day is my off day, as far as training goes. I have to say, skiing uses totally different muscles, and I was feeling it even on the easy stuff! But I'm so happy we went. I wore my new ski girl shirt. I have wanted a version of this shirt since before me and DH were together. I found it on sale, in a medium, and the girl on the shirt is a cartoon version of me (sans helmet). WIN! This shirt was a present to me for all the work I've been doing. I am taking Chrissie Wellington's advice - she says it's important to do nice things for yourself to acknowledge all your hard efforts. I plan to show my appreciation by doing something nice for me once a month. 

My body is definitely adjusting to the workload. This week starts adding a second swim to the calendar, and today I have both swim AND track in one day. Here we go, right?!?! Still doing the CG workouts, too and I am feeling stronger. Interesting note, no pain while skiing! My left shoulder issue definitely improved with resting it (took it out of the weights rotations for a week) and my hip gets tight after a long run but doesn't hurt otherwise, so hooray! I've been careful to stretch after every workout and use the massage gun if things feel extra tight. I think the gun really worked to help my shoulder, so that is very good to know. 

I am doing a good job of curbing the night-time eating. It is amazing what a little awareness will do. I figured out another thing I can improve - eating enough earlier on in the day, so that I'm not so hungry at night. I am trying to shift to sort of front-loading my calories, more at breakfast, lunch, and day snacks rather than dinner. I noticed Sunday night as we were making dinner that I was starving, and not because we had been skiing. I waited too long to have lunch, then we didn't have much for lunch since we had left our lunch bag in the car at the mountain, oops! We split a bowl of chili, which was OK to hold us over, but I was very hungry as we headed home. We used our packed lunch as snacks during the drive, and I made a whole sandwich instead of just a half for dinner. This is observation - I had this problem not eating enough or on time on ski days last year, too. And if I look at my eating patterns, I'm generally light on the calories until dinner. So, I'm shifting to be sure I have a good breakfast and lunch, a good healthy snack if needed, then use less calories for dinner and pretty much nothing afterward. The calorie timing shift is a process, one I can improve now that I am aware. 

And with that, I need to get some chores done before I head to the pool. I hope you are having a wonderful healthy day.