Wow..its done...I cannot believe how good I feel after being so freaking tired last week....
That's all....Lessons learned in the past were put into place....
Extra special encouragement from my friends Lisa and Janet..."you'll have to report back to us whether you hold your pace on your run...you don't want to tell us that you didn't keep your pace"....so quaking in my boots...and feeling pretty good...I did it...so that means that I can....
PR'd my 13.1 without focusing on it...didn't PR the 5k, which only means that I held a consistent pace for 15 miles...which was and IS my goal....to NOT start off too fast...to keep putting one foot in front of the other....
Sore today..but not unusually so...
Off to work...Less than 7 weeks to go...oh my!!!
Monday, September 16, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Patriot's Half - "Just" another training day!
First, the good stuff...
(1)I only had twinges of cramping on the bike...you should have heard me..."oh NO you don't...shut up legs!" Lesson, take more salt, spin at higher RPM's...and have fun.
(2) Nutrition was again, right on..EFS is the way to go..though I admit to dry heaving three times while trying to get it down...lesson learned...take smaller sips...
(3) Swim was good, though I don't like current...Lesson learned...it IS easier to cross the current if you kick!
(4) The bike was long and boring and I remembered some words to songs that I could sing other than my ABC's..Lesson learned.....though I haven't learned ACDC's Highway to hell, I WILL brush up on "100 bottle of beer on the wall, 100 bottles of beer......."
(5) I can swim without my earplugs. I got in the water, didn't have my plugs..panicked a bit..but mentally got over it and it wasn't bad. Funny thing is..as I was doing laundry, I found the ear plugs in my tri top..so I had them all along!! Lesson....I will give Lisa and extra pair to bring to the beach start just in case.
(6)..lets see, the run..what was good about the run...well, i finished...I ran more in the second loop than the first...the quad cramps I DID have off the bike went away with my magic magnesium potion (haha)....Eric and Lisa coming out to run me in at 1 mile to go was just what i needed....
Now..the hard stuff...
As I have written the good stuff...the bad or hard stuff has pretty much fallen to the wayside....
I have perseverance..I won't give up easily...the only thing keeping me from running is ME. I can do it..I know I can..I've RUN 10 in a row before...I've done 13.1 many times....my head is what keeps me from doing this....so.....my head will really really need to be in the game on November 2nd....
I have to push through the pain..(hopefully there won't be barnacles in Florida...but there may be jelly fish!)...i just need to know that I will be an IRONMAN if I can wrap my head around that fact..and say "yes" instead of "no" or "I don't care" as I am walking...it will work....but I can't wish this to happen...BUT i CAN MAKE it happen.....i can do this...i really can..I just have to keep saying this...
after all, I'm doing it for Dominic and for Kari...who's birthday is today...and 2 years ago today my parents and I took her out for her birthday...when her parents didn't come to celebrate....and it was her last birthday...Happy Birthday my friend....!!!!
(1)I only had twinges of cramping on the bike...you should have heard me..."oh NO you don't...shut up legs!" Lesson, take more salt, spin at higher RPM's...and have fun.
(2) Nutrition was again, right on..EFS is the way to go..though I admit to dry heaving three times while trying to get it down...lesson learned...take smaller sips...
(3) Swim was good, though I don't like current...Lesson learned...it IS easier to cross the current if you kick!
(4) The bike was long and boring and I remembered some words to songs that I could sing other than my ABC's..Lesson learned.....though I haven't learned ACDC's Highway to hell, I WILL brush up on "100 bottle of beer on the wall, 100 bottles of beer......."
(5) I can swim without my earplugs. I got in the water, didn't have my plugs..panicked a bit..but mentally got over it and it wasn't bad. Funny thing is..as I was doing laundry, I found the ear plugs in my tri top..so I had them all along!! Lesson....I will give Lisa and extra pair to bring to the beach start just in case.
(6)..lets see, the run..what was good about the run...well, i finished...I ran more in the second loop than the first...the quad cramps I DID have off the bike went away with my magic magnesium potion (haha)....Eric and Lisa coming out to run me in at 1 mile to go was just what i needed....
Now..the hard stuff...
As I have written the good stuff...the bad or hard stuff has pretty much fallen to the wayside....
I have perseverance..I won't give up easily...the only thing keeping me from running is ME. I can do it..I know I can..I've RUN 10 in a row before...I've done 13.1 many times....my head is what keeps me from doing this....so.....my head will really really need to be in the game on November 2nd....
I have to push through the pain..(hopefully there won't be barnacles in Florida...but there may be jelly fish!)...i just need to know that I will be an IRONMAN if I can wrap my head around that fact..and say "yes" instead of "no" or "I don't care" as I am walking...it will work....but I can't wish this to happen...BUT i CAN MAKE it happen.....i can do this...i really can..I just have to keep saying this...
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