Quite frankly, because I didn't have anything to say. I know that's hard to believe but every time I considered giving an update the feeling passed quickly.
In short it's been a real struggle the last few weeks and I'm not sure why. I'm also not gonna spend a bunch of time worrying about it. It is what it is. Right now I am looking forward to a 2 week road trip with my partner and my grandchildren, and if things work out I'm gonna squeeze an Ironman triathlon into the middle of it.
Just over 6 weeks left til D-day and I've lost more than 2 weeks of critical training. Every workout since the race weekend in Welland has either been missed, or severely shortened, because of whatever this malaise is.
Tomorrow I will try for a decent long one. We'll see :)
A couple of bright things I discovered today. First off. Thames pool! It is a 50 metre outdoor pool in London that has lane swimming every day at noon. What a luxury that is. Today I swam 3 kms in an hour and I'm looking forward to doing most of my remaining swim training there. It is a bit of an anxiety dump believe me.
The other cool thing I just learned is that Ironman Mont Tremblant will break from tradition and have wave starts!! What that means is that I will be entering the water with about 400 other people instead of 3000! Again this is an anxiety release. It's about time actually. There was no good reason not to do this other than the aforementioned tradition. I think they were really forced into it by their competition, that started using this format a few years ago.
Game on! I promise to let you know how tomorrow goes. The plan is 180 kms followed by 9 kms.
Love
Peter
In short it's been a real struggle the last few weeks and I'm not sure why. I'm also not gonna spend a bunch of time worrying about it. It is what it is. Right now I am looking forward to a 2 week road trip with my partner and my grandchildren, and if things work out I'm gonna squeeze an Ironman triathlon into the middle of it.
Just over 6 weeks left til D-day and I've lost more than 2 weeks of critical training. Every workout since the race weekend in Welland has either been missed, or severely shortened, because of whatever this malaise is.
Tomorrow I will try for a decent long one. We'll see :)
A couple of bright things I discovered today. First off. Thames pool! It is a 50 metre outdoor pool in London that has lane swimming every day at noon. What a luxury that is. Today I swam 3 kms in an hour and I'm looking forward to doing most of my remaining swim training there. It is a bit of an anxiety dump believe me.
The other cool thing I just learned is that Ironman Mont Tremblant will break from tradition and have wave starts!! What that means is that I will be entering the water with about 400 other people instead of 3000! Again this is an anxiety release. It's about time actually. There was no good reason not to do this other than the aforementioned tradition. I think they were really forced into it by their competition, that started using this format a few years ago.
Game on! I promise to let you know how tomorrow goes. The plan is 180 kms followed by 9 kms.
Love
Peter
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