Moody and Sore

Moody

That was yesterday. What a bitch. Nothing bad happened it was the usual routine. But talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed. And of course there was a swim scheduled. If I am going to skip any workout, the swim is it! Oh yes.

Feeling a bit desperate, I emailed Liz. Then I went out to lunch. Literally. With some friends from my old office. It is so much fun getting together with them. Not only because I love them as people, but also because they remind me that I don't miss working in a law office. Ugh. No thanks. Although I still sometimes feel strange not going to an office every day. Working from home is a whole different animal with its own set of ups and downs. But that is for another post (probably never).

Anyway after lunch I shopped briefly for a new swimsuit. I promised myself that if I bettered my time on my last swim test (which I certainly DID) I could get a new suit. Wouldn't you know it . . . I couldn't find one that I liked. When I'm being a moody bitch things don't usually fall into place for me and that makes me even more moody. Ahh . . . well.

Got home to an email from Liz. She told me to get my ass to the pool. Except she did not use the word ass. Her email was perfect. The right amount of encouragement combined with just freaking do it already.

5:15 came and there I was at the pool. Gosh I really just wanted to go home. But I pushed through. As I was going through the set I was thinking this is going to all be worth it when I am towing the line at my first triathlon this season and for the first time ever I am not afraid of the swim. Because I am not. I hit all my intervals in the longest workout to date that Liz has written for me. 2300 meters. Um, that's 1.4 miles. I have never swum that many meters all together before.

Sore

This morning I am very sore. Mostly in the shoulders and upper back. No injuries, just the soreness you feel from pushing yourself in a pretty dang hard workout. I am actually looking forward to today's recovery run and bike. The muscles will loosen up a little and I will feel great.

My overriding goal this season is to train consistently. And I am. Liz reminded me that I am in control; I need to do what it takes to stay there and keep moving forward. Some days that is easier than others but I am doing it.

Comments

[Wes]

Totally awesome :-) In honor of this effort, I'm going to do 2300 meters in the pool today. Thanks :-D

[IM Able]

HELZ YEAH!

Bravo, babe. BRAVO!!

Way to convert a crapstastic day into something to be proud of. Do you know how many people CAN'T do that? Like in regular life?

Being a triathlete (or an athlete) is not about getting out there when we feel good or its sunny or birds are chirping. It's about getting out there when we're having an ef-you day and nothing is going right and we do it because we TRUST that at one point we decided this was worth it.

You trusted yourself and it paid off. And now you are literally stronger for the effort. Not to mention figuratively.

Bravo!

[Izaac]

Way to go Stef!

Very good of you to push through your day.

You should add a workout sidebar like they have at buckeyeoutdoors.com.

Then you can track your workouts throughout the year.

It will be great to look back over the months and see how you have grown and changed!

[Sean Cook]

Hmm, let me say a few words:
Crabalicious
Procrastinationville
Idonjuana
Crapatacular (one of my favorites)

Doing things we don't want to do that can improve us is a good habit we all can fall in to.
And....doing things over and over and having obstacles come up that we fix makes them do big deal at some point.

You know it, the next two months might be the roughest.Now that I have butchered the English language enough, a logic probelm:

Albert Einstein is to large wheel bicycles as

Stef is to:
a) flip turns
b) chocalate cake
c) triathalons
d) routine

[Steve Stenzel]

SORE just means that you did something great! Enjoy it!!