Another Saturday

Another Saturday, another day to take it easy. I can't wait until the weather gets better and I can ride outside. I am getting real tired of all this swimming, and I miss riding. I can't stand the thought of going down to my basement to ride, or doing treadmill work at the gym. I need to feel the warmth of the outdoor air on my face as i ride or run ( in my case walk) I have to start to push though my injury's and work hard on getting my calf strong and get running and biking more.

I Just can't get motivated.

Every morning I get up, the thoughts that run through my head are, I want to quit training and quit IM's all together. Why? To start with, the first steps I take in the morning are a real pain, I mean? really painful. I can't walk, I am off work because I can't walk, So why am I trying to train for an Ironman when I hurt so much?

I work my way down stairs to get my coffee, check the web, and stretch enough to take some of the pains I have away to get my ass moving to make my way to rec center. When I get to the rec center I do my work out, the endorphins kick in and I start to feel good. When I'm done showered and changed, I waddle back to my car in pain to drive home and sit for the rest of the day as much as I can, to relieve my feet from my pain only to have to get up on them to do things around the house like cook and clean, or do errands, only getting relief when I can sit again.

So why am I training? The pain alone tires me out.

Then on line! I watch a live broadcast of Ironman at Ironmalive.com like yesterday with the Ironman New Zealand race. I stayed glued to the computer watching all day to catch the action and see who wins, and watch every ones mechanics while swimming, riding and running, mostly the pros, to learn more on what I can do to be a better athlete in each discipline.

While this does motivate me and excites me to train at the time, the next day like today? I come back to reality, Why am I training? I hurt to much? the pain isn't going away? Give me another coffee!! I want to quit.

Why don't I quit?

1) I just don't know how!

2) I love the sport to much !

3) I'm a positive thinker, not to bright, but positive!

4) I believe I can work though my pain, Oh? that goes back to being positive.

5) It's a lifestyle I want to do and live, to be healthy!!!

6) The sport of Triathlon racing is not easy! and I like the challenge!

7) Maybe I like pain?

8) I'm not to bright??

So tomorrow I'll be back at it and go to the gym to get in my first day of running since my injury to my calf and if all go well I'll do some boring biking in my basement later.....

Man I want some Hot weather to melt the snow away so I can swim, ride and run outside.

Me Swimming across the inlet at KillBear provincial park on Georgian Bay last summer camping

Nice form, high elbow, straight lines.

Feb Training Totals

I'll chalk this month up to being a injury recovery month. It's been four and a half weeks since I tore my calf muscle and it is slowly getting better. I didn't make my goal of 40,000m swimming for the month, this week was a bad week for me training, I just didn't have it in me to go long yesterday and today, a sure sign I'm tired and need to back off swimming a bit. I did manage 13 miles on the treadmill since my injury, all walking of course. I gave up on the Elliptical only doing it twice over the month, I found it to boring, and did more weight workouts instead, but I will try to get back on it, maybe? In the last two weeks I biked three times just easy spinning with no tension.

So my plan for March will be easing off swimming, going back to swimming Mon, weds, and Friday's, and focusing more on my biking and running taking the distances and intensity up.

Weigh-in...... Drum roll....... Still at 240lb. Egad!! I better start dieting!?!?

Been busy but no excuses.

Pardon my absence here. It's been a busy week, we took Melissa back to school. I've been mostly swimming trying to reach my 40,000m total for the month, and been doing stuff for some people.

Still doing physio for my calf, and it's feeling better. It's not as tight, but still tender specially around my ankle. I did manage another walk on the treadmill and it's coming along pretty good, I should be able to start running next week.

I'll post my monthy training totals tomorrow along with my offical weigh-in to see how I'm doing?