Triathlon Fun
How you doing sports fans!? The reason I have not written anything is that well there was nothing really to write. Training is going badly but I am still training. Because of work and various other things, like me turning my alarm off in my sleep when I need to get up and train have put a huge hamper on my ability to get all my workouts in.
Also my cross training has more become my cross injury. The first three games of soccer I pulled my quad, strained a ligament in my knee, and got kicked in my leg so hard that it hurt to put pressure on my right foot for two days. All these things add up to not training. However, I pushed through and manage to get some workouts in while at the same time finding a way to rest my body.
After my body healed I slammed back into the workouts, I now keep my bike in my car. Right after work I hit the trail for a min of 20 miles. Not much but it is time in the saddle to work on drills and cadence stuff, I am going to be spending the rest of my weekends doing long rides getting that endurance that I lost, back.
Waking up in time to go swim in the mornings is getting harder and harder. Not sure what I am going to do about that I figure that I just need to go to sleep at 10 at night so that I can get up at five in the morning. I am going to try and implement this over the next couple of days and see if it works. I am not able to function on the four hours of sleep I used to back in school, I need at least six and I am noticing that if I get seven the day is just that much better. I hate getting old!
As for the run, well back, to cross training injuries, I just joined a rock climbing gym about two weeks ago. I have been doing a lot of climbing, which is great. You have to think a lot and push your body the entire time you climb. When I ride and run, I have all this time to think about everything because even though you have to focus when you get in the zone you can get bored and end up thinking the entire time. When I climb, I have to pay so much attention to where my feet go what my next two handholds will be. I do not have the chance to think about anything but climbing. It is like being on a mini vacation for 5 min.
There are also shorter runs called bouldering that are 3-6 hand holds in a row low to the ground. They are short but very challenging. I got addicted to one bouldering problem the other day, with huge weight changes and then an off balance pull to jump to a final handhold near the top. I had completed the problem earlier that day but had come back to the gym to do it again. I tried it 5 times and blew out a couple of calices on my fingers, and still had not reached the grab I needed. My last try of the night I saw on my hand another calices that was ready to be ripped off but hoped that it would wait until after I made the grab.
I worked my way through the problem and got to the place before the jump. Hanging sideway with my feet even with my head and my arms on a completely different wall then where they need to end up I made my final leap for the ever-elusive handhold and with a puff of chalk I grabbed it with all the strength I had left. As my body swung away from the wall that last calices blew. The skin that was holding me on the wall slid away from my finger and I fell to the floor and landed on the mat sideways bruising my hip making it hard to walk now.
The moral of this story is that I will be riding and swimming a lot until my hip feels better and I can run again.
That is all there is folks. Just me beating up my body repeatedly and being angry when it fails on me.
In other news.
I got a raise about 3 weeks ago, I am building a huge bookshelf to put in my room, I am doing the Nations triathlon on Sep 16th, the run actually takes you around the Washington monument the capital building and the Lincoln memorial its going to be great.
That’s it for now talk to you later.
Also my cross training has more become my cross injury. The first three games of soccer I pulled my quad, strained a ligament in my knee, and got kicked in my leg so hard that it hurt to put pressure on my right foot for two days. All these things add up to not training. However, I pushed through and manage to get some workouts in while at the same time finding a way to rest my body.
After my body healed I slammed back into the workouts, I now keep my bike in my car. Right after work I hit the trail for a min of 20 miles. Not much but it is time in the saddle to work on drills and cadence stuff, I am going to be spending the rest of my weekends doing long rides getting that endurance that I lost, back.
Waking up in time to go swim in the mornings is getting harder and harder. Not sure what I am going to do about that I figure that I just need to go to sleep at 10 at night so that I can get up at five in the morning. I am going to try and implement this over the next couple of days and see if it works. I am not able to function on the four hours of sleep I used to back in school, I need at least six and I am noticing that if I get seven the day is just that much better. I hate getting old!
As for the run, well back, to cross training injuries, I just joined a rock climbing gym about two weeks ago. I have been doing a lot of climbing, which is great. You have to think a lot and push your body the entire time you climb. When I ride and run, I have all this time to think about everything because even though you have to focus when you get in the zone you can get bored and end up thinking the entire time. When I climb, I have to pay so much attention to where my feet go what my next two handholds will be. I do not have the chance to think about anything but climbing. It is like being on a mini vacation for 5 min.
There are also shorter runs called bouldering that are 3-6 hand holds in a row low to the ground. They are short but very challenging. I got addicted to one bouldering problem the other day, with huge weight changes and then an off balance pull to jump to a final handhold near the top. I had completed the problem earlier that day but had come back to the gym to do it again. I tried it 5 times and blew out a couple of calices on my fingers, and still had not reached the grab I needed. My last try of the night I saw on my hand another calices that was ready to be ripped off but hoped that it would wait until after I made the grab.
I worked my way through the problem and got to the place before the jump. Hanging sideway with my feet even with my head and my arms on a completely different wall then where they need to end up I made my final leap for the ever-elusive handhold and with a puff of chalk I grabbed it with all the strength I had left. As my body swung away from the wall that last calices blew. The skin that was holding me on the wall slid away from my finger and I fell to the floor and landed on the mat sideways bruising my hip making it hard to walk now.
The moral of this story is that I will be riding and swimming a lot until my hip feels better and I can run again.
That is all there is folks. Just me beating up my body repeatedly and being angry when it fails on me.
In other news.
I got a raise about 3 weeks ago, I am building a huge bookshelf to put in my room, I am doing the Nations triathlon on Sep 16th, the run actually takes you around the Washington monument the capital building and the Lincoln memorial its going to be great.
That’s it for now talk to you later.
posted by Bobby at 11:18 AM
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