April was quite a busy/weird month. At the end of March we decided to sell our house and buy a new one! So we began April frantically cleaning and getting our house staged for selling while also looking at new houses. In less than 2 weeks of signing a contract with a real estate agent we had a purchase agreement for both a new house and selling our current house! The rest of April was a blur of purging, packing, cleaning, and trying to maintain some regular life! We were fortunate that Christy’s parents had already planned to come up over spring break so they were able to watch the kids while we looked at houses and stage ours. My Mom was already planning to come up to watch the kid’s for me to ride the Dickie’s Scramble so she also helped with a ton of packing and starting to load our moving pod. We really couldn’t have done it without their help!
This whole process obviously added some stress to our life and preempted some others plans.
My main goal for April was #30daysofbiking I thought that since I finally wasn’t travelling in April that I’d do a lot better. Eh.. Incorrect! I only rode 22 of the days. I’ll blame some of the moving stress! I actually did a good job riding for the first 8 days, missed one and rode a bunch more. I wasn’t able to sneak away while my Mom was here the first part and then once I rode the Dickie Scramble I was pretty shot for the next few days! My total monthly mileage was huge! In one month I tripled my yearly total! I had mentioned that I was going to try and wear bike apparel daily, but I gave up on that one after the first week. I could have done it, but it was hard to keep track of wearing something different.
Mileage:
Running – 8.5 miles – I was focusing on riding more which meant I rode to work and didn’t feel like running first. I was tempted to ride one way and run home and almost did before I wisely realized my body wasn’t ready for a 9 mile run.
Biking – 230 miles – Riding an 85 mile race and a 33 mile training ride while also a month of trying to ride every day meant I really ramped up my mileage, which could be why I’m dragging a bit now!
Swim – 200 meters – I wanted to see what it felt like to swim since I haven’t really done it in 2 years. I was briefly tempted to do a triathlon with my old work buddies. I could probably do it, but given the stress of moving it didn’t seem wise to try and force myself to hit the pool on a regular basis.
Crossfit – I went 5 times. It was a little frustrating that the week that I can go all 3 times was also the week before my race, so I didn’t go as part of the taper. I’m still enjoying it and feeling stronger.
Mobility – I did 24 times which has been a fairly consistent number. Maybe not so consistent on what that actually means. On days when I do Crossfit, I spend some time after using the mobility tools they have. At home it is less consistent.
Dating my Wife – We did go on two dates this month!! Yay!! Having family in town 2x’s this month meant we didn’t even have to pay for a babysitter!
My Goal for May is to do Yoga every day. I’ve downloaded a couple of yoga apps for my phone to help me with poses and some sort of program. We shall see!
How was your April did you get out and do #30daysofbiking ?
