Hurdles

Work, sickness, relationships, family. These things all throw hurdles our way while we strive to achieve our goals. Most recently I have been hurdling work and the beginnings of a cold.

I am always amazed at how fast these things can make you question everything you are doing. As my last post suggests things were rolling along smoothly on Monday morning and I was feeling great about how my training was progressing. Then the first hurdle popped up. I have been fighting back a cold for a couple weeks but it just wouldn't seem to go away but wasn't affecting my training either.

Monday was a different story. My energy level just kind of bottomed out. Then the second hurdle, work. As usual I had been putting off getting store paperwork caught up and it ended up catching up with me. Government submissions are not one you want to be late on. Monday turned into a paperwork day with "NO" training. Goodbye long ride and core.

Tuesday still not finished paperwork and energy level still rock bottom. Hmmm! This sucks! The questions begin to role through my mind. How am I going to make up for this? I am now so far behind? Amazing how quickly it happens. Only two days lost and I am already starting to worry. To make this more laughable it was at the beginning of a recovery period. Log a couple zeros and move on I say.

Wednesday I manage to get in an easy spin on the trainer and start to feel a little better. Then this morning I put in a great swim despite waking up tired and not feeling very energetic. I did a 1500m continuos long swim at sub 2min/100m pace. This puts me a fair bit ahead of schedule in the pool. This is where I really start to laugh at myself. Tuesday I am all worried over nothing and Thursday I find myself ahead of schedule and cleanly over the first couple of hurdles thrown my way.

Stick to the plan, don't second guess and don't try and make up for lost workouts.