Season planning with a bike focus and a newborn focus

02/03/23 • 71 min

Amy and Aly talk about their plans for the 2023 race season. Amy will have a bike focus so she shares what she has been learning about how to plan a bike season. Specific focuses are keeping it sustainable for the family, being flexible as the season progresses, earning points to upgrade to Cat 2, and finding ways to test herself. Aly has a big A race in May - the due date of baby girl! She shares that her postpartum plan this time will not include a specific race to build up to, but rather will focus on learning how to find a maintainable fitness routine. And hopefully she can throw in some Master’s Swimming Virtual Challenges in, too. In their weekly updates Amy talks about her recent solo trip back home to WI and pumping during the trip and plans for weaning in the future. Aly talks about feeling baby move and being motivated by Tour de Zwift.

In this episode, Amy and Aly share some recommendations on things to watch and listen to:

Bring Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman (book)
Friends, Lovers, and the Bike Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (book)
Good Girl by Lauren Fleshman (book)
Younger (tv show)
All For One (documentary)
House of the Dragon (tv show)
Yellowstone (tv show)
1883 (tv show - Yellowstone spin off)
1923 (tv show - Yellowstone spin off)
My Favorite Murder Podcast
That Triathlon Life Podcast
Happier with Gretchen Rubin (podcast)
Nobody Asked Us with Des and Kara (podcast)

In this episode, Amy and Aly share some recommendations on things to watch and listen to:

Bring Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman (book)
Friends, Lovers, and the Bike Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (book)
Good Girl by Lauren Fleshman (book)
Younger (tv show)
All For One (documentary)
House of the Dragon (tv show)
Yellowstone (tv show)
1883 (tv show - Yellowstone spin off)
1923 (tv show - Yellowstone spin off)
My Favorite Murder Podcast
That Triathlon Life Podcast
Happier with Gretchen Rubin (podcast)
Nobody Asked Us with Des and Kara (podcast)

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First half of Aly’s pregnancy: maintaining fitness, food aversions, and emergency doctor’s visits

This week on the podcast we share pregnancy updates that were recorded in real time from Aly’s first trimester and the first half of her second trimester. Because pregnancy announcements are so frequently made after the first trimester, it can be hard to get an accurate account of what that first part of pregnancy is like - especially from another mom athlete. Aly talks about her excitement to maintain strong bike fitness when she was just 5 weeks along, which by the next update is not going as well as she had hoped. She talks about how fighting fatigue and nausea impacted her overall plans to maintain consistent fitness, and discusses some of the challenges of pregnancy with a toddler at home. Aly also shares some challenging moments including a miscarriage scare, three weeks of unexplained bleeding, and a trip to the hospital for a painful incarcerated hernia.

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Amy and Aly discuss their personal experiences with mental health, and specifically how much hormonal shifts can impact mental health. They talk about the ways IUDs impacted their emotions. They discuss the heightened emotions they felt after giving birth, including feelings of rage, depression, guilt, and anxiety. Amy shares the ways that her anxiety increased after her second baby was born. She talks about how difficult it was to know when to try medication to help after working on it in therapy. In their weekly updates they discuss the transition from crib to toddler beds. And they close with their Go Mommas of the Week.