well this is how it's supposed to be. it took me a while to get ironman scared, but i've finally been scared into kicking my own ass a bit. don't know what's woken me up, maybe realizing that we're only a few months away from ironman canada, or whatever, but this week i finally realized a few things, and changed a few things, that has all seemed to work.
first, i have to make full use of my weekends! with family demands, work things, and just general life stuff, i have to make full use of whatever time i have to train. i know one thing for sure. when my 2 autistic kids get out of school at the end of june, friday, saturday, and sunday are going to be sure things, days that no matter whatever else is going on, are going to be the days i train the most, my focus, the key to this thing. during the week, it'll be time for the kids, and even then, whenever i can get out for a run or a ride, or heaven forbid, a swim, that'll be a bonus.....the 3 days of the weekend, is for working ,my ass off.
until then, the same holds true. when my youngest, sasha, heads out to school, i've gotta drag my ass out of the house, and just train, and get what i need to get done, done. i've wasted to many mornings, screwing around the house until 10 or later,, and then found myself with not enuff time to do any significant training before heading out to work. but no matter what, i've got from 8:30 on, every morning to swim, bike, and run to my hearts desire, before i have to head out to work. and that's something i have to work on too. i don't have to be at work until 2:45.....yet, for some reason i always cut training off at noon???....heck, i'm screwing myself out of 2 hours of training...i don't really have to head off to work until 2PM...EVERYDAY!....so there's 2 hours i could still run, swim and bike somewhere, somehow.....so that's a thing i've set to work on over the next 2 weeks....train early, and not cut myself short...
again, that sort of worked this past week...ran monday, biked hills and ran on tuesday, swam wednesday, ran thursday, swam friday, biked with the gang on saturdays, and had a crappy run today....i'll get back to that later....but again, i should have run longer on thursday...finally drug myself outside late, only had time for 3 miles...a quick 3 miles...when i should have been on the road at 8:30 and have run 10 miles....but monday's run was good, the swims were amazing...and biking hills tuesday, and the ride in the rain and wind on saturday were great...but i've got to get running more, further........today's run sucked....it was 10 miles, it took 100 minutes...at the very least 15 minutes too slow. and i felt crappy....i managed to sprint up a few hills, and it was a route i loved....and when i ran, i ran hard (practically sprinted up victoria park hill)...but i kept feeling winded, and just could not keep up a pace....so i've gotta fix that, NOW!...i love running, i just haven't been doing enough of that, so i'll have to fix that quickly....maybe by running more, adding runs to swim days (i love running before a swim) and just not miss anymore sunday long runs...that might be the biggest key to this thing
but, otherwise, yep, i've gotta eat more, and have to watch what i eat a little closer...but, 111 days...that's it???.....wow huh
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