Training Balance
May 28th, 2009 by Gavin
There’s good news and bad news.
The good news is that I am now a ‘2 sheet’ Origami Expert. The bad news is that my expert Origami course took place during the early hours of this morning and that it was forced upon me. I have been eating and quickly flushing for most of the week .
‘Code Brown’ has been the order of the day on most of my runs . . . . . I would tell you the story of the forest, stick and lost house key but this is a family site and I feel I should move on.
I am trying to create a better balance in my training at the moment. During a mega bowl of ‘reflection porridge’ I realised after British Champs that I was maybe trying to do too much - I even went as far as saying on poolside one morning that “our problem is that we train too hard” !
I was wanting to do all the swims, ride with the cyclists as much as possible and try to find a way (without success) of running with the local running club.
I had in my programme 3 hard runs, 2 chain gang bikes and 3 hard swims - added to those were a long run, a long bike, strength swims, easy runs, easy bikes etc.
I would sometimes rock up at a chain gang feeling great and smack it out. Sometimes I would suffer like a dog.
I would sometimes hit the track and go further and faster than before. I would sometimes think someone made it longer.
Most of the time I’d swim like a brick !
Every session seemed to be a ‘test’.
But now I am attempting to achieve some balance. Prioritising which sessions I need and which are simply wearing me out. It is not a case of not training hard or shying away from ’suffering’ its more training hard and recovering better - and thus hopefully being able to produce more effort and faster speeds in the sessions when I am “being asked the questions” !
ALL ROADS - ATHY COUNTY KILDARE
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May 28th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
The brown runs could be bad karma for the motivational poster you stuck up a few days ago!!. Weather is looking good for Athy the weekend. Should be good.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Gav - I must have got what you got in swim athy! - been flushing rapidly since.
Athy was hot! hard luck on the puncture.