Organized Ironman Training
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
One of the biggest influences that Ironman training has had on my life this year is that it has forced me to be super organized with how I spend all of my time. I can’t remember the last time I have set my alarm for after 5am and I plan my life around my workout plan days or weeks ahead of time. If I let my anal retentive organization plan slip, I started missing workouts immediately and had to get back on the horse.
It has even started to influence how I physically organize my apartment so I can spend less time getting ready for training and more time actually out there getting ready to race.
I’ve quarantined a bottle of special bottle of EFS and Liquid Shot to make sure I have enough nutrition goodies for race day and don’t go through it all before I roll into Sandusky.
I’ve made separate swim, bike and run boxes for the cabinet in my triathlon cave for all the random goodies and nick nacks. I also keep all the nutrition bars, GUs and other random stuff in a shoe box so I have everything all in one place.
Can’t find that pair of shoes I need? Nah. They are all hanging on the back of my closet door.
My road bike is neatly hanging on the wall out of the way.
The TT bike is always propped up on the bike trainer, ready for a century ride or 2 hour trainer session at the drop of a hat.
My random assortment of recovery stuff and supplements is all stacked together.
I have a whole shelf dedicated to water bottles.
I’ve been good (usually) about diligently recording every single one of my workouts in Training Peaks.
But no matter how organized everything else is, my drawer dedicated to workout clothes WILL NOT SHUT.
I don’t think that thing has closed in over 6 months. It just won’t happen… Nothing is folded or organized. Thankfully it is at least all clean, but I’m thinking I need to head over to Goodwill to donate gear to some needy triathletes.
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