As mentioned in my last post, I haven't been feeling 100% lately which was making my workouts a little difficult to get motivated for. Once I felt I was at a point physically to get through the workouts I decided to shut off the brain. I felt like I was suffocating with too much random stuff...what if's, missed workouts, the weather...yadda, yadda, yadda.
I told myself to just STFU and train.
I try to focus on the now...something that has been mentioned by a few friends. I set immediate goals when I am in a workout, ie, when riding into a strong headwind to focus on the pavement passing by, when running, visualize coming into a finish line feeling like I can do the run again...etc. It really does make a difference.
I am not saying you should ever lose sight of the big picture, but sometimes you need to shift you focus away from it - from the details, and just concentrate on what you are doing at the moment. Don't think about how shitty the weather is before you head for a run...think about how strong you will feel at the turnaround point of your run. Be thankful you are in a position to do these activities.
Overall, my weekend of training went well. Physically, I was still fatigued from being sick but mentally I felt great and was glad to be out there doing what I love.
2 comments:
There have been so many times I got all bent about what the weather was going to do, and if I should go or not. Eventually I realized the weather was going to do whatever it was going to do, and nothing I did would change that. So I stopped worrying about what the weather would do while I was out, because I figured I could cope with it, and then it turned out that it wasn't worth worrying about.
Nice to hear you are recovering and getting back into the groove of things. Funny how powerful our minds can be, eh? They can make a difficult situation worse, or make it better...the choice is ours. Good post, Shannon. :)
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