I saw a video clip of Simon Cowell providing feedback to Clay Aiken in one of the first season's of American Idol and it stuck with me, not because I don't look like a pop star, but because I don't look like a marathoner/triathlete/Ironman.
I acknowledge that the primary gap in my pursuit to optimal health and fitness is my approach to nutrition. In the past, I have not priortized (or if I did, it was short-lived) nutrition and eating habits. I have convinced myself that the weight and body composition will take care of itself because I am burning tons of calories in my workouts. I have eaten too few calories or too many calories for the duration of my endurance training and both have led to weight gain and poor performance, I have half-heartedly treated food as fuel until the 'fuel' options were not very appealing or I wasn't seeing the progress I expected to see and it turned into me treating food as sources of yumminess!
Day 5 of Squeaky Clean Eating on the Whole30 program (http://www.whole9life.com/) - Two Thumbs up - good macronutrient mix for my meals, including veggies; dinner with friends and no temptation to 'cheat', starting to understand what my pre-workout meal tolerances are and getting used to eating 3 times before 8:00 a.m. (pre- and post- workout meals and breakfast!)
Goal for 2011 - Complete Half Ironman in 5:30
My fastest Half Ironman was over 6 hours at Gulf Coast (fast and flat course) in 2004. Yep, 40 minutes off my fastest 70.3 time on a more challenging course. It would be nice to look like an Ironman, too!
Challenging? YES!
mpossible? NO WAY!
Factors involved in accomplishing this goal:
Body Composition
Nutrition
Disciplined/Purposeful workouts (CrossFit, swimming, biking, running and yoga)
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