The Prepared Shall Not Fear
After I finished the marathon on the 6th, I ran through the cooling mist sprayers and went to lie down on the grass, and I remember going through three emotional phases:
1) Relief/joy: naturally. I can't believe that I finished. That's a very long way to run.
2) Pain/fatigue: you don't really know how tired you are until you stop moving.
3) Fear: oh, Petey - what have you done? Do you not remember that this was in preparation for an event that, at your peak of fitness, should take you an additional 2 hours to complete?
But, as it's been said somewhere, the Prepared Shall Not Fear. Put in your hours, and you'll be fine. Or at least, you'll go in with the confidence that there was nothing else you can do, and race day is just going to give you what it's going to give you. And, after hours spent putting together a training concept and plan, I admit - I do feel better. There is much work to be done, but the Plan is there.
I'm frankensteining the ideas of two different programs:
CrossFit: I've recently joined a CrossFit gym here in St George, based purely on that system's reputation. I've had a strange fascination with really intense programs such as CrossFit, starting with an article I read on Mark Twight and his infamous Gym Jones in SLC (I have a secret suspicion that CrossFit based itself largely on the ideas that Twight helped to popularize). All of my weight training will be done through this program.
The Triathlete's Training Bible: this tome, by Joe Friel, is for those who want to get deep into the methodology of training, without all the hassle of actually going to college and getting a degree in Exercise and Sports Science. It reads like a textbook written for professional endurance athletes who don't have time and resources to hire a coach. It will walk you through every part of creating a year-long training plan, from mental preparation to planning the actual movements that you will do during each day's session(s). I'm borrowing the concept of Periodization from this book, and dividing my weeks into prep, base, build, and peak periods. I'm also using it to schedule the amount of weekly hours I'll train each week, what my workouts will consist of, etc. To fill the pages later on, I'll probably spend some time writing about all of that stuff.
So there it is. Written down. Now 'scuse me, I'm off for a swim.
End transmission.
1) Relief/joy: naturally. I can't believe that I finished. That's a very long way to run.
2) Pain/fatigue: you don't really know how tired you are until you stop moving.
3) Fear: oh, Petey - what have you done? Do you not remember that this was in preparation for an event that, at your peak of fitness, should take you an additional 2 hours to complete?
But, as it's been said somewhere, the Prepared Shall Not Fear. Put in your hours, and you'll be fine. Or at least, you'll go in with the confidence that there was nothing else you can do, and race day is just going to give you what it's going to give you. And, after hours spent putting together a training concept and plan, I admit - I do feel better. There is much work to be done, but the Plan is there.
I'm frankensteining the ideas of two different programs:
CrossFit: I've recently joined a CrossFit gym here in St George, based purely on that system's reputation. I've had a strange fascination with really intense programs such as CrossFit, starting with an article I read on Mark Twight and his infamous Gym Jones in SLC (I have a secret suspicion that CrossFit based itself largely on the ideas that Twight helped to popularize). All of my weight training will be done through this program.
The Triathlete's Training Bible: this tome, by Joe Friel, is for those who want to get deep into the methodology of training, without all the hassle of actually going to college and getting a degree in Exercise and Sports Science. It reads like a textbook written for professional endurance athletes who don't have time and resources to hire a coach. It will walk you through every part of creating a year-long training plan, from mental preparation to planning the actual movements that you will do during each day's session(s). I'm borrowing the concept of Periodization from this book, and dividing my weeks into prep, base, build, and peak periods. I'm also using it to schedule the amount of weekly hours I'll train each week, what my workouts will consist of, etc. To fill the pages later on, I'll probably spend some time writing about all of that stuff.
So there it is. Written down. Now 'scuse me, I'm off for a swim.
End transmission.
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