Winter Slump
Monday, January 11th, 2010
I promised myself that when documenting this whole ironman journey thing, that I wouldn’t just blog about the good stuff.
Right now, I’m stuck in one of those “other” parts.
It is only January! I feel like I’m in a slump before I even started! My training has been struggling to take off. Between the freezing cold, and being dark when I leave for work and when I get home, I’m in a funk. F-U-N-K. Funk.
I have even been having trouble sleeping lately. Normally, I’m a sleeping champion. Like the kind of sleeper whose head hits the pillow and immediately dozes off into dream land? Now, not so much. Waking up in the middle of the night to stress about random things that don’t deserve losing sleep over is NOT something that I’m used to.
But the thing is that when I do get myself out and training, I feel great. I’m hitting my zones, feeling strong and just cruising. I even had fun during a 1:30 trainer session and 1 mile brick run this weekend. I have no idea why, but it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had on the trainer. Now If I can just figure out how to keep it up, I’ll be SOLID come spring.
So I guess my main problem is just getting off my lazy rump and getting my shoes on and working up a sweat. Once I am there, I’m golden. At least The days are getting warmer and longer from here on out. (or at least that is what the calendar tells me…)
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