I am the first to admit that I am in a downward spiral. Beyond discussing personal, work stuff on a public forum I would rather discuss the athletic downward spiral.
I have 23 weeks to ironman . Yes the 2nd ironman in 2 years and 23 weeks left to prepare. Where did all the time go. For the last couple of weeks training has been lack luster to non-existent. Mainly because I didn’t workout . Yes the horror. I didn’t workout. I just didn’t feel like it. I worked out a couple of times (2-3) /week but nothing consistent and nothing hard. So how the hell am I thinking I will be preparing for this ironman.
Yes by all accounts I should start to freakout. I should start to wonder what the hell I am planning to do . But like everything else I have learnt from years of racing. I need a plan. I need to be organized and after that I need to execute.
The one thing I can say is that I can’t lose a single day between now and ironman. EVERY DAY COUNTS.
So now what is the grand plan. Well the easy part of it is that I have to start to workout. I have to start training my body to go through the motions of those long workouts both physically and mentally.
Now the plan is to start biking consistently asap. That means go home today and hit the bike. Do the 1:15 hr of biking and do it well. The next 3 weeks will be doing my regular training with a bike frequency added in. Just to get some of that endurance back on the bike.
Then I can start to pick up on the rest.