June in Review: CRAPPY Training

>> Monday, July 14, 2025

I noted in my post about May's training that June's training would be be lacking. And I was right. Here's what June looked like (and the first few days of July):



Here's the same calendar highlighted with big events:



The first week was normal, but a BIT lighter because I was racing a duathlon on the 8th. And then I left that race and went straight up north with 4 kids, coming back just in time for Henry's birthday. And then we left for camping in WI the very next day!

Then FINALLY a normal week before 10 days in Hawaii!! (Still going through those photos!) We got home from Hawaii and the boys and I took off the very next morning for Summer Nationals in fencing for Henry in Milwaukee. WHEW! That was a wild 4 weeks!

And my training suffered, but I didn't care. I did what I could, so it was pretty normal runs, very minimal swims, and no biking when on those trips. Here were my totals for June:

• SWIM: 7758 yards
• BIKE: 82.46 miles
• TRAINER TIME: 38 mins
(an easy spin on a hot day)
• RUN: 101.20 miles
• STRENGTH: 36 hours and 50 mins


That "run" number is good - a totally normal number. But the rest of them stink. It's my lowest swim yardage in YEARS. Only 3 months over the last 2+ years had fewer bike miles, and they were all dead-of-winter months. Combining trainer time AND outdoor miles and you'd see that June was the lowest since probably sometime in 2020 or 2021. And strength time would have been a good number a few years ago, but it's low as of recent training (being it was under 37 hours and I had 57 hours the month before).

Here's the last 26 months, and it shows last month is the lowest in overall training time when you add up time spent swimming, biking, running, lifting, and on the trainer:




Last half of June had me at "unproductive."


My "floors" shows some of the FUN of last month...


... here are the things labeled that stand out!


Finally, a "normal looking" week of intensity minutes after some smaller weeks lately!

July will be a bit more normal after an odd first few days. And I'm hoping August is pretty normal too - maybe even try to make that a big bike month!

Friday Funny 2473: BBQ Memes

>> Friday, July 11, 2025

To play off last week's "4th of July funnies," here are some BBQ memes:





























































See related USA FUNNIES from last week.

More funnies posted all week long on SportsAndLaughs.tumblr.com. HAPPY WEEKEND!

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