and on that note....... Happy New Year!
I am having trouble getting this blog thing into my routine. two problems, my head goes 20 times faster than i can type, i am done thinking what i was going to write before i start typing. Second, I much prefer to read about other people than talk about my stuff. I am told I will love this , so i will commit to it for a bit and see how i do, also, Jenn sent me a message threatening me to get on here and blog and then she called me a horrible name.hahaa hardcore peer pressure!!!
My last post had me totally pumped to get to my training, and boy, did i ever get to my training. I am happy to say I never missed a workout and managed to train twice as many hours in a week as i ever have in my life. All that with the Christmas craziness, so i was pretty proud of myself.
I am hitting Cancun for two weeks soon and Carrie my coach has decided to ramp up my training a bit until i go. I am game, as my Christmas holiday baileys and shortbread diet was not quite in the equation when i got a new bikini for the trip.
Back to the potential puke sitch,
I had an hour run before swim tonight. I went to my momès to help her take down her tree and color her hair , and in the process , i found myself in a house with a treadmill. Perfect, my workout was warmup and 8x3 minutes tempo, one minute recovery. I generally pride myself on running outside no matter what, the freakier the weather the better, but doing these on the slippery trails outside are not always super productive. After warming up, i started my repeats and I felt great, i kept up a 7 miles an hour pace for all eight( which is very fast for me!). number 6 was the best and i pushed it a bit faster, but then i started to need to look around for something to throw up in because i was sure i was ready to spray, I eyed up a fairly empty kleenex box and on my recovery minute reached and pulled it closer. Number 7 was up, and again the vomitous feeling returned fast and furious, but it almost made me run harder. I think it is kind of awesome to be working so hard that you need to throw up---anyone else experience this whack thinking....number eight, same, rocking awesome run. Didnèt actually throw up, but wow, great run. Had a quick bite, and headed to swim. Shoulders felt slightly trashed from the planks and updogs the night before at my first yoga since before Christmas. When I finally warmed up, we were done, haha.
I had a big a-ha moment thanks to the wise young woman Jenn before christmas. I was innocently enough talking about how I just was not feeling fresh for any of my workouts. She looked at me , like, um, ok dumb dumb, and she said, um, ya, you are not going to feel fresh until maybe when you are tapering, you are going to feel like shit a lot. That kind of shocked me, I am not sure what I expected, but truly everyday is bringing me around to what this Ironman thing means. I guess that is what Sara was talking about at the training camp, Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. This is my new mantra, it makes it all good when facing a workout and feeling like you have nothing to give it, and somehow you just do. Sometimes you surprise yourself and kick ass and sometimes you are dragging, does not matter, you are doing it, cause you are a rockstar.
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Boy, Jen says a couple words and gets you blogging. I send a great long impassioned email, and what am I? Chopped spoiled liver????? Now I know where I stand. hahahahaha
Great workouts! We totally expect your vacation pics to include one of you in said bikini! How else are we going to know how good your tan is?
With the blogging, if you do it every day, it's just like doing your workouts tired. Your thoughts don't run as fast, and your fingers can keep up. Plus, you aren't trying to catch up on a freaking MONTHS worth of stuff.
Seriously, a kleenex box??!!
Look at this:) And I never called you dumb!! I just informed you that you need to learn to function asswhipped tired cause that is how it works. You will have no problem with IMC if you like running until you puke in your mouth. It is when you keep swallowing it and keep puking that you have become a true champion (totally kidding here. I think). Good solid run and you put in a good swim too!!
I have been to pukie a couple of times and close alot. I love the feeling. Just keep sipping water or some kind of fluid when you get to that point. Makes it easier if pukie does come.
I agree with Jenn. The race is the easy part, its the reward for all the pain and suffer you endure to get to that point. Training is what sucks, the race is the reward for all the crap you put yourself through.
Happy New Years!!
Sorry keith, I did feel compelled to get on here when you gave me your encouraging comment,it just didn't happen, another case of me having the conversation in my head while running or swimming, and hten it is gone, sorry. I promise if you were here in my face as my sweet Jenn, and used the kind of language she used, I would have jumped to it!!!haha. ya and nice and sneaky on the bikini picture sharing suggestion!! actually if i can keep up to the next 3 weeks of Carrie's workouts, the bikini shot may not be quite so painful. I am also going to try and find an ocean swimming group when I am there, when we were in Puerto Vallarta two years ago, there was a group who went out everyday.could be cool.
Jenna, sorry on thinking you called me dumb, whatever you actually said, gave me an awesome reality check and emotional boost, so thanks, and truly, feel freee to call me anything you like in the next 8 months to keep this ass a rocking, ok????
big daddy diesel-ok, first, i don't have time to go back and find out on your blog where and how this name of yours came to be, please enliighten me.
second, nice to hear of someone else with these kinds of thoughts, I guess this blog thing may be a good thing after all!!
that is fantastic (getting off on almost throwing up from traning so hard)...very inspiring.
And yes...learn to LOVE the pain cave...it's the only way to truly make sure U are ready to race!
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