My one week Anniversary
Well...Today marks the seventh day of doing exactly what I wanted to do regarding training.
Contrary to what I thought, I do not want to die, and I dont feel like crap. I dont hurt, my arthritis is manageable, and I've not eaten way too much. I'm also not falling asleep at my desk. All very good things.
In week one, I managed to get 18 miles in (yes betsy, I did the math twice just to be sure this time..hehe). I did some gianormous hills and some long boring flat stretches..and I feel pretty good about what I've acomplished. Pretty good.
I'm not trying to plan too far ahead, but did look for a minute to see that I was on track to where I wanted to be. Next week will be a lot harder than this week, but every week is going to get harder and harder. Thats just the nature of training, I guess.
This all leads me to believe that I might actually meet the goal for the race, and might just be signing up for the half ironman..whats funny is, I've got december 2nd on the brain so much that I've almost programmed myself to think that this training stuff can stop at that point...
Turns out..thats just the beginning. This part of training is going to be easy. Is AFTER December 2nd that it gets truly hard. YIKES.. That'll put the fear in you.
Darla asked me the other day what my training plans were for the HIM. And I realized I hadn't even thought about it yet. I think as I'm training for this Half Marathon, I'm going to have to be thinking about what I could actually acomplish if this half marathon were a HIM. Hmm.
What training load can I handle during the week, and on the weekend. Saturdays are my long slow distance days, but I'll also need those days to do extensive bike training..will I have to do both? yikes.
biking during the week will be hard in the winter, as every daylight minute is spent in this office. Will i have to start riding around the airport during lunch? Can I do that? Do I have THAT kind of dedication? Geesh. I dunno.
would I be able to make the same strides if I swam and ran during the week, and rode on the weekends? Maybe my day off would become Wednesdays instead of Sundays, so i had more free time available for training. Yippee Jiggs, that's a good idea.
Anyway...
just dont think I'm not thinking ahead here.
I'm actually tired of being consumed by the thoughts of training...I wake up and its the first thing I think about..I wrestle with my inner fat kid about how many times she gets to hit the snooze button...thinking all the while that I need to just sit up, because If I missed the window, I'd be really pissed at myself, and I know me, and I would NOT make it up later in the day.
Then when I finally do get up I have to fight the fat kid again, because of her opinions of what training should look like..."you should take two or three days off, this could be unhealthy" Oh please.
She's pretty much fallen back asleep by about 15 minutes into the whole thing. So thats good. Then I can start having those empowering conversations with myself during training..
But even when training is over, and I'm home, I want to analyze what happened, then when I get to work I want to think about what I'm eating, and what I'm going to do when I get home that night..is it a crunches day? or a push ups day? And what am i going to do again in the morning? how many more days do i have before I get another break?
as annoying as this blog post is, I must say, I'm pretty excited about thinking about it this much...
Contrary to what I thought, I do not want to die, and I dont feel like crap. I dont hurt, my arthritis is manageable, and I've not eaten way too much. I'm also not falling asleep at my desk. All very good things.
In week one, I managed to get 18 miles in (yes betsy, I did the math twice just to be sure this time..hehe). I did some gianormous hills and some long boring flat stretches..and I feel pretty good about what I've acomplished. Pretty good.
I'm not trying to plan too far ahead, but did look for a minute to see that I was on track to where I wanted to be. Next week will be a lot harder than this week, but every week is going to get harder and harder. Thats just the nature of training, I guess.
This all leads me to believe that I might actually meet the goal for the race, and might just be signing up for the half ironman..whats funny is, I've got december 2nd on the brain so much that I've almost programmed myself to think that this training stuff can stop at that point...
Turns out..thats just the beginning. This part of training is going to be easy. Is AFTER December 2nd that it gets truly hard. YIKES.. That'll put the fear in you.
Darla asked me the other day what my training plans were for the HIM. And I realized I hadn't even thought about it yet. I think as I'm training for this Half Marathon, I'm going to have to be thinking about what I could actually acomplish if this half marathon were a HIM. Hmm.
What training load can I handle during the week, and on the weekend. Saturdays are my long slow distance days, but I'll also need those days to do extensive bike training..will I have to do both? yikes.
biking during the week will be hard in the winter, as every daylight minute is spent in this office. Will i have to start riding around the airport during lunch? Can I do that? Do I have THAT kind of dedication? Geesh. I dunno.
would I be able to make the same strides if I swam and ran during the week, and rode on the weekends? Maybe my day off would become Wednesdays instead of Sundays, so i had more free time available for training. Yippee Jiggs, that's a good idea.
Anyway...
just dont think I'm not thinking ahead here.
I'm actually tired of being consumed by the thoughts of training...I wake up and its the first thing I think about..I wrestle with my inner fat kid about how many times she gets to hit the snooze button...thinking all the while that I need to just sit up, because If I missed the window, I'd be really pissed at myself, and I know me, and I would NOT make it up later in the day.
Then when I finally do get up I have to fight the fat kid again, because of her opinions of what training should look like..."you should take two or three days off, this could be unhealthy" Oh please.
She's pretty much fallen back asleep by about 15 minutes into the whole thing. So thats good. Then I can start having those empowering conversations with myself during training..
But even when training is over, and I'm home, I want to analyze what happened, then when I get to work I want to think about what I'm eating, and what I'm going to do when I get home that night..is it a crunches day? or a push ups day? And what am i going to do again in the morning? how many more days do i have before I get another break?
as annoying as this blog post is, I must say, I'm pretty excited about thinking about it this much...
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