Push ups

Elena is doing 30 push-ups per day and 30 sit-ups as part of her training for karate. It's amazing. They have to do 15 in the morning and 15 in the evening. I helped by holding her feet for her sit-ups last night. I can't even do 15 push-ups if I tried without pure suffering let alone 30 per day everyday. She went to school in her karate uniform today as they do karate for most of the day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

My 2nd DC Costco trip was yesterday. I held back this time and ended up walking out spending half as much as last time. Not too bad as it will last about 2 months. I'll go to Costco right after the Ironman as the countdown is 2 months away. I already eyed all the junk food I'll come out of there with during that trip. Hmm...2 x 3lb bag of Doritos, 24 ice cream sandwiches, 12 huge Costco muffins, and 3lb bag of Ruffles. It's going to be awesome. I already forsee a new all-time weight high easily eclipsing my current 157 which occured 2 winters ago.

On Saturday, I went in reverse. I decided to ride the bike first(still resting the foot) and then swim afterwards. I could start my ride early, pick up Elena and then swim while she was in the "Kids Club" at the gym. I rode for just under 3 hours really pushing a bunch of hills. I had a pretty good ride considering my legs felt totally dead on both Thursday and Friday. The kids club at the LA Fitness wasn't such a great place. Pretty scary. One person with about 12 or so kids from babies up to 8 year olds. Luckily Elena is a pretty safe kid and old enough to be able to handle herself pretty well. I probably won't be doing that again. I hit the pool for the swim. I swam for 70 minutes. My longest swim ever. I ended up with 3800 yards and could've finished last the 600 yards for that Ironman distance.

As for the foot, I actually think it's a sprained ankle. At least the second injury as the first one really isn't hurting at all right now. On my long run last Sunday, I stepped in a pothole and thought I just tweaked my ankle. I really didn't worry about it as it was just past the halfway mark and I finished without it bugging me. I think maybe during the tempo run that Tuesday I aggravated it without knowing it. I mean I was trying to ease up on the other injury. Who knows...hopefully, I know more tomorrow afternoon.

2 months 1 day...