So it's been a month since I've posted. More than a month actually. Well, I lost my job a while back, so I haven't been in front of the computer much. I've had a harder time keeping up with training since I lost my job. Kind of hard to believe, but I've been doing a lot of work for my parents, which hasn't been as rigidly scheduled as work, which has made it tougher to get my training. But, aside from last week, when we moved, I've hardly missed a day at all. I really got back to it this past week and made all my sessions...didn't get them in when I was supposed to, but I got them all in. Took some gerry mandering, but I got it done. After missing all but about 2-3 sessions the week before, I knew this was an important week to get them all done.
So, I don't remember everything about training from that month, but I'll talk about a few of the highlights. The Paris Mountain Olympic Tri was canceled due to weather. I tried to head out to Valdese to do that sprint, that race too wound up being cancelled due to weather. So, I didn't get to race last month. Bummer. Instead, on that day, my schedule called for a 7 mile run. I ran at the Biltmore Estate, and just felt so good that day, I wound up going for 10.5 miles. It was by far the best run I've had of the season.
Now for the low lights. Now this may have been induced by lack of training and being worn out from the work at my parents, but this week i had my three runs, tues/wed/thurs, with thursday being the longest of them. The tuesday and wednesday runs went very well. I ran around the area here, which includes some steep hills and some long, less steep hills. Then I was already feeling pretty worn down on thursday, but pushed myself to do the run. A half mile into the 6.3 mile run, I was definitely not feeling it, and knew it was going to be a very difficult run. However, those are the one's where you really show yourself what you're made of. It would've been very easy to chalk it up to a tough week and being tired already and thrown in the towel, but I knew I wasn't hurt, and I wasn't pushing myself through any kind of pain, so I kept at it. 1 hr and 15 minutes later I finished the 6.3 grueling miles, but I felt really good about myself for pushing through adverse conditions. I know there are going to be moments at the ironman where I don't know how I'm going to go on, but these are the days I will be able to draw from, and have the confidence to know I can keep going.
I had a similarly difficult bike ride, also that same thursday. That was a very difficult day. 6.3 miles of running, a 2 hour break, then 28 miles of cycling, which some seriously hard core hills. But in the end I made it through. I had a decent run today, nothing to write home about, nothing to scoff at. Very easy pace, I was definitely feeling it, but I did 8 miles in 1 hr 28 min. About a 11 min/mile pace. I just need to get through this week's 40 mile ride, and I'll be entering taper period for the Over the Mountain olympic.
Almost there....
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