Pro and Con VT100

Ok.
I'm not back, but I'm semi-back.

I ran on friday night...it was only 25 minutes, but I'll take what I can get right now. Actually, I came back to the apartment and was so unfulfilled that I went out and walked for almost an hour. I guess, in Ultraland, even walking is training too. I'll accept it.
I'd be ignorant if I didn't assume I'd be walking a lot in Monterrey this November.

In retrospect, during the last month leading up to the injury, I fell into a trap I hadn't fallen into in a years. I went too hard, too soon, and took a 3 week hit in training because of it.

I'm not going to Vermont unless I can pull some crazy water workouts in the next couple of weeks.
REALLY want to do Vermont badly, so I need to be rational and not push things too soon out of the gate.
Place rationale up there with balance on the impossible shelf for me this year.
I have the mental wherewithal, but my 27 year old body is too young to handle what I WANT to do.
It could be a frustrating couple of years if I don't do things to a T.

Going back to VT 100, let me plead my case on why I can:
-50 mile Treadmill run, overnight, was 2 months ago to this day. Still have some umph from that run
-Lots of run mileage leading up to the:
-Death Race 3 weeks ago.. 10 hours overnight, mental and strength training for sure.
-All I need to do is a small build in volume over the next 4 weeks with one major long day(doesn't even have to be all running) 2 weeks prior.
There is a whopping 40 DAYS until the VT 100. Almost 6 weeks.

Now that I've talked myself into it, I'll see what Troy at Northern PT thinks.
6 weeks is a long time.

I crave the trail..
No, I don't just crave the trail.
I crave trail gluttony.
-crossed fingers-

krp

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I ran into this last september....getting caught up in training for all the wrong reasons.

Sometimes, I'm so results -oriented that I lose my brain and either don't train right (ie too hard) or lose my motivation. I see what I have to do and its either fight or flight. Balance is proving to be very elusive this year.

I ask myself, now, in a bout of tendonitis, what happened to training for the love of training? Maybe this inflammation is a blessing in disguise, for I am missing training. My body needs it. I want to feel my heart pumping. I want to slip into that mental place where obligations don't exist...when I'm into a workout, I'm just in zen mode. My lack of zen mode is really killing my joy of life right now.

In the grand scheme, the Vermont 100 is a mere 6 weeks away. The April major ride is 3.5 weeks away. So, I need to start putting major volume in, which, until this injury's gone, means major pool time...and this means boredom to the point of jabbing my eyes with toothpicks.

Gotta find that balance.
To WANT to train.
To be confident in my training and ability.
To RELAX my mind.

7 months till 5x.

krp

wow

I dunno.

I'm dealing with some tendonitis. My head hasn't been in the best of places lately.
Turns out I do have it in my blood to be a complete jerk to people, after all.

Just restrict my ability to train, and the asshole-ometer cranks up.
Sorry, friends. There's more to life than training, it just took me a day to realize it and get over myself.

I'm thinking of starting a new blog in addition to this one. Up until this "injury", which is actually just inflammation, the increased training time had been taking me down some different roads and memory lanes.

I'm always so busy looking forward, that I never really look back on some of the things of the past. There's some tragedy to that, as I feel like I'm forgetting about more things every day...maybe more even than the average person.

It feels like, for 27, I've lived a ton of lives and had some really crazy things happen...maybe it'll make a good story someday.

So, in regards to starting a new blog, I think maybe I'll spare you the same training-based blogs every time and spice it up with some experiences that have led me to this point.

This blog will be called Fuel.
They are the stories that made me who I am- the events that shaped me as a person. The stories will be raw and real, and will not be in chronological order...just written as they come to me.

Fuel. Coming very soon.

Krp