To say this week was the worse ever for training would be an understatement. Here we are in late April into what is suppose to be our Spring and freaking Hail, Snow and Rain is still upon us. This has been very detrimental in my training this week as I have not been able to get my long endurance training in. Even the intermediate tempo training was affected in that I had to do some of my workouts inside which, when lasting over an hour can be excrutiatingly boring. Thus, I have not been a very happy camper this week. But I have tried to do the best of a bad situation and got most of my workouts inside.
Not the best for quality and realistic training but what can I do? I definitely was not going to risk getting an accident on the roads with the bike and possibly ruining the rest of my training that's for sure. I often wonder how those prairie boys do all that training in the winter inside, but have to admire them if they can do that. To me having lived in God's country for the past 40 years and training in light clothing all year around has spoiled me and cannot stand being indoors too much. But hey!! If I did not have that fancy Ergo spin bike and treadmill and a big screen TV to distract me, I would be that much worse off right? So no....I can't complain as I have it better off than most when it comes to decent training methods and variety.
I know deep down that global warming is causing all this, making me determined to be more of an enviromentally consious person who has to do all he can in order to do his little part in saving our earth from the bad things us humans are doing to wreak havoc on this planet. Enough about that though......So what if I have missed a couple of days of good training? Some people are sick or injured for weeks on end and end up recovering and having excellent results. I remember my last Ironman year three years ago with my IT band injury which kept me from running for weeks on end. I eventually bounced back to run better than ever. So for now, it's a pretend injury keeping me out of action.
Actually the decrease in training volume will probably benefit me in the Sprint Tri next weekend...Who knows? For now I am very content in being uninjured, healthy, and fit as a fiddle. Things could be much worse than bad weather right? Time to stop whining and and plan ahead for a good tri this weekend. Everything else will take care of itself. This week is now my easy rest week and will make the best of it to re-energize and re-focus on the big picture. I have to keep reminding myself that it is no use worrying about things beyond my control and the weather is definitely one of them. For now, I am really looking forward to my trip to Vancouver next weekend. Time for fun and friendship with old buddies and a good training Tri to boot! Life is great after all!
Not the best for quality and realistic training but what can I do? I definitely was not going to risk getting an accident on the roads with the bike and possibly ruining the rest of my training that's for sure. I often wonder how those prairie boys do all that training in the winter inside, but have to admire them if they can do that. To me having lived in God's country for the past 40 years and training in light clothing all year around has spoiled me and cannot stand being indoors too much. But hey!! If I did not have that fancy Ergo spin bike and treadmill and a big screen TV to distract me, I would be that much worse off right? So no....I can't complain as I have it better off than most when it comes to decent training methods and variety.
I know deep down that global warming is causing all this, making me determined to be more of an enviromentally consious person who has to do all he can in order to do his little part in saving our earth from the bad things us humans are doing to wreak havoc on this planet. Enough about that though......So what if I have missed a couple of days of good training? Some people are sick or injured for weeks on end and end up recovering and having excellent results. I remember my last Ironman year three years ago with my IT band injury which kept me from running for weeks on end. I eventually bounced back to run better than ever. So for now, it's a pretend injury keeping me out of action.
Actually the decrease in training volume will probably benefit me in the Sprint Tri next weekend...Who knows? For now I am very content in being uninjured, healthy, and fit as a fiddle. Things could be much worse than bad weather right? Time to stop whining and and plan ahead for a good tri this weekend. Everything else will take care of itself. This week is now my easy rest week and will make the best of it to re-energize and re-focus on the big picture. I have to keep reminding myself that it is no use worrying about things beyond my control and the weather is definitely one of them. For now, I am really looking forward to my trip to Vancouver next weekend. Time for fun and friendship with old buddies and a good training Tri to boot! Life is great after all!
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Hey Gary, thanks for all your words of encouragment,they really helped push me through on my tri, and yea a picture of Tam with the glove thing would have been great, that would be a doggie award...ha ha.
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