Motivation: What motivated me this week was the "oh shit" factor. Oh shit - I've really up and promised to do this thing. Oh shit - these workouts are already getting harder. Oh shit - look at all these incredible blogs by other people who are setting and achieving goals. Somehow being able to lay it out there helped me find the motivation to get over it - whatever the "it" of the moment was this week.
Tri-Tool/Gear Gratitude Focus: The interweb rocks! Athletes who blog get my gratitude this week. Community is way more important to me than seems reasonable considering how much of a cave dweller I am. I may not be able to join in the tri - training community in real life - but I can be a part of it in the blogging world. THANKS so very much to Willie, RBR, IMAble, and J-Wim for creating terrific blogs and for leaving me kind comments. I want to be just like y'all when I grow up.
**They are neither tools nor gear; they deserve their own section; and they are on my heart's permanent gratitude list - but I want to say it here and now anyway: Donna and John you are the loves of my life and I couldn't get through any of these weeks, training or no, without you. THANK YOU for supporting me.**
Obstacle Of The Week: Wind!! Who knew the wind had the power to shut off my brain? Invisible bastard! I couldn't think. I didn't have an alternate plan. I came the closest to giving up on a workout this week because of wind. But now I know what to do should it happen again in training. And I'm more confident about how much wind I really can handle during the race. After all, there is always some wind near the coast. (Please the tri gods - just not as much wind as there was yesterday!)
Setting My Sights For The Upcoming Week: This week is harder and longer. Now that we have the basic logistics worked out, the challenge will be to dig even deeper and to stay present and focused as well as fueled/hydrated. I need to eat earlier and not worry about weight a lot this week.
Celebration: My workout log looks so gung-ho with two full weeks of training and health logs filled in! (OK - I just realized you can't see it but when I'm signed in, for every day I filled out my "health log" with my weight, sleep, fatigue, nutrition etc - there is a little heart on the calendar. Pretty!)) I LOVE that there is an icon for rest days. There are no blank days. That calendar chock full of digital reward stickers is one outward sign of the inward shifts going on here. Two weeks of training and recording my progress is almost halfway towards the thirty days they say makes a habit. I am changing my life! Yay me!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
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Thanks for the shout out but who said anything about growing up?? NEVER! I'm so glad that I could inspire someone, we all need that from time to time. I know I do.
B.T.W. I still think I'm slow but when I started running about a year ago, a 10 minute mile was my goal. I remember when running 10 miles seemed impossible and the thought of a marathon scared me to death. At some point I got hooked and just kept running and the times came down. Fast times are not my goal though (except for a sub-4 hour marathon). I really love the running community and the friends it has brought me. I want to run marathons for as long as I can.
Aw, thanks. I just ask one thing try not to laugh when you kick my ass at Pac Grove. You are doing AWESOME with your training!
Keep on keepin' on!
(I am continually amazed at what I am willing to do for a little digital, extrinsic reward. Now a t-shirt? I pretty much will go to Hell and back and sell my soul for a "free" t-shirt with a cool race logo)
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