Keeping my eye on the goal gets harder as I get closer to achieving it. The winter months aren’t doing me any favors either. I’ve always struggled emotionally during this time of the year. A weird kind of depression type “funk” starts to seep in and committing to an active lifestyle becomes increasingly difficult. Just goes to show how many various elements contribute towards achieving accomplishments such as Ironman (or weight loss, or body building, or anything).
I’ve said, for a while now, it takes an amount of “mental investment” in your activity to get out if it what you want. Well, maybe I should add “emotional content” (see Bruce Lee in ‘Enter the Dragon’) to the list as well. It’s obvious now, from the increased difficulty I’ve been having due to these depressing times, that its necessary for me to find the appropriate mood for tackling my training. How I should go about that remains a mystery, but part of my Friday Focus is finding the mood appropriate for adding an increased emotional content to my workouts. If I couple that with the mental investment I have in my training, I have no doubt that I will reach my goal.
Yesterdays Training
Conditioning – 50′s Challenge, 50 reps of 6 different exercises without stopping. It’s tough!
Todays Training
Bike – Endurance Intervals 55min
*did it this morning and it was tough. 15 miles and my HR was averaging around 155 bpm, which is pretty high.
Tomorrow starts our first “Endurance Weekend” and from what I read in the email Coach Woody just sent me, it looks INTENSE!
I will posting tomorrow if I’m not in a coma =)
It’s Friday! Let’s finish strong! LIKE A BOSS!