Feels like summer

Today was a beautiful day in paradise. Temperatures up to around 20 degrees celsius, which I'm not positive but I think is close to 70-80F. Regardless, gorgeous, and I spent it doing what I love to do on days like today: riding my bike.

But not before the morning swim:

500 warm up
3 by 100 kick on 2:00
3 by 200 swim/pull on 3:20
4 by 100 as 50 kick, 50 board flap drill
500 pull paddles
5 by 100 kick with fins
400 pull paddles
300 ez warm down = 3500 total.

I'm also playing around with some different nutritional products right now. I am trying to address some of the symptoms of IBS; I think diet is going to be a huge factor in my long term maintanence of my health.

I find the times that I tend to eat less than ideally are when I'm snacking hungry. Then I tend to grab what I call junk carbs - quick sources of food like: rice crackers, stoned wheat thins, wheat free toast etc. I'm experimenting with a more complete meal replacement product that is completely vegan and made with whole plant nutrients. I chose this product because it is alkaline, which maintains the body's PH balance, and aids in digestion. This is key for dealing with the symptoms of IBS. I'll let you know how it goes.

I had a really good 3:45 ride today with a friend of mine who is a local Cat 2 racer. I was able to keep up for the most part; since this was a chatty ride anyway, much to my praise.

When I ride that kind of time - we probably rode about 80k or so - I have to eat. So I tried one of my new vegan bars and it worked great: enough energy to get me through the volume and easy on my belly. I also use up alot of water and usually some carbohydrate replacement beverage like gatorade or eload.

Tomorrow is a bike and run day, so I will be following my programmed 2 hour mountain ride followed immediately by about 30 minutes of easy pace running.