Time for the ol’ Swiffer to dust off this blog!! While I haven’t been training hardcore with swimming, biking, and running, I have kept up with a reasonable level of fitness with a run or bike ride here and there, some gym sessions, some dates with Shaun T….more like what I like to call the la-dee-dah mindset of fitness.
The reason I’ve been out of the competitive mindset? Well let me see if I can find a handful of words to summarize this past summer, which was supposed to be the timeframe for the bulk of my triathlon training: hmm shall we say…Depressing? Maddening? Fast food consuming? You take your pick. I had a series of unfortunate events pop up this summer, which would have to be discussed in other blogs topics if I chose to discuss them.
But excuses-schmexcuses. While I DID IN FACT have the CRAPPIEST summer EVER, I am only allowing it to set me back a tad, not make me quit. SoooooOOooooOOooooo……
I REGISTERED FOR MY EVENT!!!!!!! This is huge. I’ve been putting this off for quite some time, not entirely sure if my motivation to compete would return. Because I knew once I hit “submit,” on that fantastic little online registration screen, there would be NO going back. So here were are!!! http://trifreaks.com/trifreaks-kirkland-triathlon/
I do have to admit that I registered for the duathlon rather than the triathlon. I found out after several swim sessions that I’m somewhat of a sinker (my 14% body fat finally works against me, damn it!) and open water freaks me out. Again, I am NOT quitting on the triathlon goal, but rather I plan to take grown-up swim classes over the winter to conquer this fear. Triathlon in Spring 2013? HELL YES. So there, now I don’t need to change the name of this blog.
My duathlon event goes like this: run 3.1 mi; bike 13.9 mi; run 3.1 mi. So basically the swimming leg is substituted for an additional running leg. Which requires just as much, if not more, endurance as a triathlon. And that makes me feel like I’m not an entire failure; that I’m not too far off from my original goal.
This post has a moral, I promise: when you feel like life sucks and you just wanna shove fast food and greasy disgustingness and all amounts of alcohol in your face, DON’T DO IT. At least not for long. Things will get better. Exercise will help it get better faster. Set some goals. And stick to them, even if you have to modify them. The end.
Next post: adventures of Michelle attempting bicycle maintenance in the garage. Good stories.
The reason I’ve been out of the competitive mindset? Well let me see if I can find a handful of words to summarize this past summer, which was supposed to be the timeframe for the bulk of my triathlon training: hmm shall we say…Depressing? Maddening? Fast food consuming? You take your pick. I had a series of unfortunate events pop up this summer, which would have to be discussed in other blogs topics if I chose to discuss them.
But excuses-schmexcuses. While I DID IN FACT have the CRAPPIEST summer EVER, I am only allowing it to set me back a tad, not make me quit. SoooooOOooooOOooooo……
I REGISTERED FOR MY EVENT!!!!!!! This is huge. I’ve been putting this off for quite some time, not entirely sure if my motivation to compete would return. Because I knew once I hit “submit,” on that fantastic little online registration screen, there would be NO going back. So here were are!!! http://trifreaks.com/trifreaks-kirkland-triathlon/
I do have to admit that I registered for the duathlon rather than the triathlon. I found out after several swim sessions that I’m somewhat of a sinker (my 14% body fat finally works against me, damn it!) and open water freaks me out. Again, I am NOT quitting on the triathlon goal, but rather I plan to take grown-up swim classes over the winter to conquer this fear. Triathlon in Spring 2013? HELL YES. So there, now I don’t need to change the name of this blog.
My duathlon event goes like this: run 3.1 mi; bike 13.9 mi; run 3.1 mi. So basically the swimming leg is substituted for an additional running leg. Which requires just as much, if not more, endurance as a triathlon. And that makes me feel like I’m not an entire failure; that I’m not too far off from my original goal.
This post has a moral, I promise: when you feel like life sucks and you just wanna shove fast food and greasy disgustingness and all amounts of alcohol in your face, DON’T DO IT. At least not for long. Things will get better. Exercise will help it get better faster. Set some goals. And stick to them, even if you have to modify them. The end.
Next post: adventures of Michelle attempting bicycle maintenance in the garage. Good stories.