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DEL.ICIO.USMy goal: Burning more than I eat
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Week II was another pretty good week.
My weekly calorie deficit was about 7,000 calories. This was a little less than last week (I wrote that it was 7,000 last week but it was closer to 10,000) and I haven’t stepped on the scales yet today.
My total training volume this week was about 14 hours which is about what my average volume is over the course of the year. During the week I swam x 3, lifted weights 1x (I pulled something so I took one day off weights), biked twice and ran couple of time. This weekend I (along with some clients and colleagues) rented a house in the GA mountains and rode mountain bikes for two days. We had a long 4 hour day (including a one hour night ride) and only a 2 hour day the next day.
On the long day I was careful about what I ate (I took in 1200 calories in fluids and fuel on the bike) but had a pretty good breakfast and a huge lasagna supper and burnt 4000 calories on the bike so I had a good deficit. We were pretty trashed the second day so we only rode for a couple of hours. I got careless and had 4 cookies that I found out had 230 calories EACH so after we fueled for the ride, had our daily meals, I ate more than I burned by almost 900 calories. Still OK because the week was not bad overall.
Monday is an off day (no exercise to recuperate and recover). I almost always eat 1000 calories more than I burn on an off day — I think my body needs the calories to repair but it is also just because I am around the house more.
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