So it’s been two weeks since I decided not to do the Half-Ironman. And I still feel great about the decision, so it was certainly the right one right now.

What have I been up to since then?

It should surprise nobody that I’ve been to Uplift three times.

One regular class, one “triathlon” and one Workout + Wine.

I went to SoulCycle once with a coworker.

I ran two loops of Prospect Park yesterday with coworkers. (The two champs who ran the Brooklyn Half as their first halfs are now training for their second halfs. YES! CONVERTS.)

Today, I intended on getting back on the bike but I only had a limited time window to get ‘er done, and I am an idiot. I took off both wheels to get the bike into the car coming back from the Hamptons two weeks ago, and I’m having trouble getting the back wheel back on. Back to the bike store when I have a minute…

I was weirdly sore but still wanted to get something in today, so I did two of our DailyBurn workouts – an ab one and a yoga one.

I also have swum a few times — I started really really enjoying it while tri training. My gym isn’t cheap though (oh hai, NYC) so I’m trying to decide if it’s worth it to keep the membership if I’m only going to swim maybe once or twice a week for funsies.

2012 throwback!

Still no goals, but I’m doing Reach the Beach with New Balance in a few weeks, so I’m definitely going to be focusing more on my running again for now.

Also, I’ve been really inspired by Kristine’s Whole 30 challenge, so I’m thinking of doing something similar. Either way, I need to clean up my diet (and my finances) a bit, so cooking more whole foods at home wouldn’t hurt anything. Grace also had an awesome post lately about slowing the eff down (my words, not hers) and now that summer’s coming to a close, that wouldn’t be a bad idea for me to do the same.

P.S. I am kicking and screaming internally that summer is nearly over.

Et toi? What kind of workouts have you been doing lately? What’s on your mind?

After I decided not to do the half-Ironman, I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

Having struggled with anxiety, I’ve generally tried to remove stress where I can in my life. I remember Katy wrote a great post a few years ago about the “summer of no.” I’ve been trying to simplify my life where possible so I can focus on the things I can control to make me happy.

In 2009, I walked into New York Sports Club and told Joel I wanted to lose weight. Since then, I’ve basically had some sort of big fitness goal every year. Since 2010, that meant running a fall marathon. So it was almost on autopilot that I decided to sign up for the HIM. Obviously I’d tackle a big fitness goal this year, and I wasn’t feeling another marathon and I’d had a good triathlon and wanted to take that to the next distance.

I haven’t had a summer/early fall since I lost weight that I wasn’t trying to fit in long training sessions (usually runs) around fun weekend plans, which I didn’t realize until I dropped out. Between this and my Junior League commitment ending at the end of June, this newfound free time is freaking amazing. I still see people’s training updates on the social mediaz and get tiny pangs of wondering if I really made the right decision, but the relief outweighs that.

I think I was afraid that without a big fitness goal that I’d gain back all the weight. But considering what a huge part of my life fitness is now, I don’t foresee that happening.

I’ve been toying around with if there’s something I do want to focus on right now, but I don’t. I still might do another tri before the end of the season, but otherwise I’m having fun doing a little bit of whatever. This week, I took two days in a row off from working out and then did some swimming, some Uplifting and some Soul Cycle with a coworker. It was nice to not have to say no because I had xx training to fit in, or to figure out how I could then get in another workout on top of that to get my training in.

A few months ago, I wrote that I felt rudderless without a training plan. Maybe I still feel a little rudderless now, but that’s okay. I’m learning how to be okay with not necessarily having everything planned out.

This morning, I did a different kind of triathlon at Uplift – it was 1.5 hours and combined their three different class formats, Strength, HIIT and Sculpt Fusion. It started approximately 7 hours after my friends left my apartment for a dinner party I hosted, so it was TOUGH. But fun.

Maybe I’ll focus on strength training, maybe I’ll do some shorter tris/join a tri club, maybe I’ll try CrossFit. Who knows?

In the meantime, I have Reach the Beach and a trip to Switzerland to look forward to. And plenty of life.

Are you training for anything?