This is my entertainment. But really they were fighting over a kid sized sofa chair. Who knew it was possible for a 10 month old and a 3 year old to fight? The baby won!
Molly is posing with newly delivered energy supply. She is fueled by formula and fruit. Mom is fueled by coffee and Powerbars.I had a GREAT brick on Sunday. Of course it was inside on the treadmill and trainer but I actually hit all of the times asked of me. That almost never happens or if it does I suffer trying to get there. But three hours of biking and running back and forth and it felt effortless. There are those wonderful days that everything just clicks. After those workouts I should really enjoy it longer. Who knows when it will happen again. I got to sleep in and start training at 9am!!!! I mean come on that is super late. Anyone with kids or a job knows that all training occurs at 5am. For me that means waking up at 4:30 even on weekends. So the occasional 9 am workout is a dream. What a concept right? Actually getting 7 hours of sleep and THEN training. Come on, that is for wusses right!
So Monday morning I head to the pool for my normal steam bath swim. (our Y pool is a thousand degrees). It started off feeling great but as my warm up wrapped up the feeling started to creep in. BONK. I did the first 250 of my main set and missed the interval, not by a little by a lot. I sat at the end of the pool for about 1 min thinking. I woke up this early for a warm up? And after doing this sport for a few years I realized that YEP I did. I woke up for this and now I will go get a coffee and read the paper. Working out: done for the day. The brick yesterday sucked all of my energy out for a few days. You take two steps forward only take take one back. Well at least I am still up one. By now Bill knows that when I walk in the door before 6am with a cup of coffee in hand he knows it was a bad day. He just smiled.
I used to get so frustrated with those days. Now I have come to just accept it as part of the package. It will happen, just focus on the next day and what you can accomplish tomorrow.
4 comments:
Wow!! Did Molly like playing with her new power blocks? (stack them up; knock them over?)
She is soo cute!! They both are!
you better stop it with that early morning stuff...you don't have to leave your house to go to work. Start commuting in the morning, and then we'll talk about tough days...
It's so reassuring to hear that phenomenal athletes like you have bad days too, and you've learned to deal with it. I had a bad week recently and was ready to quit sport altogether. Next time I'm going to get coffee!
Don't eat too many Powerbars :-) I'm so jealous.
so true.....been there, many times and the more I'm there the more I am ok with just sitting it out for a day and realizing you can't win them all!! elf.
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