I guess the bullet is fired and time to bite it!!! I am now signed up and facing a tough few months to get ready for the big one. Its a tough course so it adds some pressure to me mentally and physically!! I havent decided which is tougher on me- the mental part or physical part? The mental seems a lot harder to control. It is such roller coaster ride on the mental part. I call it the "Chatter"- the mental battle of the I can-I cant-I want-I dont-I will- I quit etc. . How do you stay mentally strong when your body is saying "no more" plus a ton of other negative feelings trying to make you stop this obsurd quest!!! When you train long you have lots of time to deal with your thoughts! When you train short and fast you really dont have any time to think, you just survive the moment and get it over with!!! These long training sessions opens the door for a lot of chatter coming at you! So the task at hand is to control your "Chatter"!! How? I am learning to do that slowly. Its strange how powerful it is. You can actually change the whole mood of your workout by getting control of this Chatter!! I am still learning it and continues to be a constant challenge! Remember, natures roll in this is taking"the least path of resistance" so that is where this battle starts!! Keep you posted!!
Well my workouts are going pretty good. I am up to 1 hour swims twice a week and doing a 4-5 hour indoor bike trainer workout!! That is torture!! I am very anal about keeping track of weight, pulse, water loss, nutrtion intake etc. I lose an average of 34 oz of fluid per hour on the trainer!! So my challenge is to try and replace most of the loss fluid and electrolytes etc.
Now that I am fully committed I will keep a short log of my weekly workouts! Keep you posted!!
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6 periods, 28 exclamation points. I'm going to teach you to use periods if it kills me!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am proud of you. I think it would be scary to push the Submit button.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya on the chatter. When I trained for the Half Iron, the mental fight is even harder the physical.
This Saturday I ran 12 miles in prep for Moab Half Marathon. My headphones broke (Z got a hold of em), and so I tried to borrow Jayna's, but they would pop out of my ears. I ran the whole twelve without music. It was not as bad as I thought, but I could have used a push at about 10.5