One Clydesdale’s Journey

Well, I saw the orthopedic Doc this past week and he gave me the go ahead to start doing some light training; slow jogging (which is how I run, so I figure fast walking to start) and I can do some riding, but no swimming yet.

He also won’t clear me to race until he sees me again which isn’t going to be until September 13th. Our last race of the year is September 19th – The Devil’s Challenge, my other “A” race of the year.

So that means that my racing season is definitely over for this year.

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Okay, I know that I’ve been really bad about posting all summer long and I apologize about that. The weekends just aren’t long enough and I always seem to run out of time. But I promise to try and get better at this.

So my training and racing season were going along quite nicely until the 3rd of this month when everything came to a screeching halt.

I crashed my bike while I was out on a training ride and I took the brunt of all the damage.

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I know, I know, I’ve been terrible at getting stuff posted. What can I say, other than what I’ve already said in the past; life gets in the way at times.

Things have been a bit hectic lately and as a result some things have been suffering. That includes my time to write any posts.

And, of course, time to train.

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So I’ve managed to pick out a few races that I want to and I’ve also narrowed down at a least a few weekends that I want to race; I just need to decide which race.

One of the tougher decisions, that I believe I’m getting closer to making, is how hard do I want to push myself in doing a half-marathon. I found one that I could do at the end of March, or one of two that I could do in the middle on May.

While I don’t mind pushing hard, I’m just not certain I can be ready to go by the end of March. So from that perspective alone I’m pretty sure which way I’ll go, but for now I’m keeping my options open.

Later,
John W.
A Clydesdale in training

My motivation is still not what it should be or, even more importantly, where I want it to be for this time of the year.

And my lack of posting commitment should be evidence of that.

I mean come on think about; we are already into the training season, this past week was the third week of Tri-Fit and I’m still very nonchalant about my training habits.

For instance; Shelly went to the gym today and I didn’t consider going with her. Okay, so I did feel a little bad about it afterwards. But really only a little bit and I got over it pretty quickly.

My solution, start to pick out my races for the year.
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Okay, I know, I’ve been slacking again. Sorry about that. Some weekends the time just gets away from me and I just end up running out of it.

But enough about that, back to our topic.

Nutrient is important; not just during a race or training, but all the time.

But more even more important than that would be proper nutrient. Once I really got into all the training and how both the training and the food that I ate affected me I realized something; food is fuel.

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Well it was one insane week around here of some very high highs and some very low lows. Including the temperate which took a serious tumble at the end of the week.

Some of the highs came at work with some big opportunities popping up, but that meant that I had a lot on my plate that needed to be addressed. As a result, I had more than a few late nights.

Some of the lows, as mentioned, came from the weather with some seriously cold temps.

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And proper technique requires a lot of training.

Ergo, if you stop training you can lose that technique very quickly. And I just discovered that the hard way this past Saturday when I got in the pool for the first time in over 2 months.

The lack of training hurt my running a bit, but overall I didn’t lose that much time and what little that I did lose I was able to get back pretty quickly. If anything suffered with my running it would be stamina. And I could pretty much same the same thing about the bike now that I’ve gotten back on it a few times.

But the swim! That’s a whole other story.
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Okay, I know that is an oxymoron, but bear with me here for a second or two and let me explain.

In working on this training plan Shelly got me from Runners World, one of the things that it makes you do is run at a pace slower than normal based on the info that you give it when you setup the plan.

At first this wasn’t an easy thing at all; the mile pace that it was asking me to maintain was only slightly faster than my walking pace. But, figuring that they know a thing or two about training people to run long distances, I thought what the heck I’ll give it a try.

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And on more than just my blog posts.

I ended up with a conference that I had to go to for work up in the Dells the last week of October and as a result I missed the Lakefront Discovery Run.

The conference was great and well worth it, but the fact that I wasn’t going to do the run caused me to slack on my training.

And that caused me to lose even more motivation and slack off completely for the last couple of weeks.

But that cost me big time, let me tell you.

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