Ironman Arizona Training Week 2

By week 2, I mean that I am starting week 2 tomorrow.
Week 1 was good. It kicked my butt a little bit, and I think it was Thursday that I approached Cherry and gave her a hug and with a little bit of a whimper and asked if what I was doing was worth it. She chuckled and made mention that my 1st Ironman was easy because I didn’t know what to expect in the training, and now that I know what to expect in the upcoming 35 weeks, and the bottom line is that I’m a little intimidated.
I really do love swimming, biking & running though. The workouts that Ben has me doing really pushes me to the next level. All in all my workouts were about 9.5 hours this week. The ones that I felt the most the next day were the weights and the hill repeats.
Starting tomorrow at about 6:15am I have a 75 min bike trainer session. I really wanted to bike home from work tomorrow, but it’s going to be a high of 30 degrees, but feels like 23. Seeing that I won’t leave work until 5pm, it’s going to be more like 28 degrees, and me riding in that is just not going to happen.  I can’t wait for warmer weather and longer days.
As far as diet goes, the hardest thing for me to quit is chocolate, and I’m thinking that I just have to come to terms with the fact that the craving will just never go away.
As always, feel free to get back to me with any questions. I’m very excited for week 2!