As I take on this new year and the challenges that it brings I'm realizing that it may be harder than I thought. For reasons really unrelated to training I have a gut feeling that this year will be a huge test for me. I've been sliding through the past couple of years with a "C" average. That is not good enough for me. Something has got to change. I guess it's going to be me because that is the only person I can change. I hope things will work out the way I want them too, but I'm only a piece of the puzzle. I'm so tired of the roller coaster. So tired of thinking things are going great and looking up just to end up in the same old routine. As previously mentioned in one of my past posts....I need to reconnect.
So on to exercise news. I have taken the giant leap and sucked it up. I have decided to slow down. To take it easy. To build a base before I start IM training in Feb. I have iced twice a day. I am not pushing myself. I swallowed my pride and am trying to be smarter. I am so tired of being injured I can't even describe it. I have been doing races of 5 years now and I think for 75% of those races I was injured in some sort of way. Dealing with the pain has become expected and that's just wrong. So now my running pace is 10 mph instead of 9 ish. My biking is about 15 mph instead of 16-17. My swimming about 9:45 per 400m instead of 9:00. It's been hard these past 4 days not pushing my limits. But I have to say the knee is better and my shin has some discomfort but nothing I can't handle. Maybe base building is a brilliant idea!
I'll keep up this base buliding for another 2 1/2 weeks then I jump into training. The first month of IM training is thier version of base building. All work is done at a fairly easy pace the difference is it's about twice as much distance of each sport than I'm doing now. And that's just month 1! Should be a very interesting, hard and rewarding few months ahead.
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