Well the quest is now begun in earnest. I signed up for Ironman 70.3 Boise this weekend. The race is June 9th, 2012, in, obviously, Boise Idaho. I have a when and a where. Now I just need a how. What do I mean is, how on earth am I going to be ready. I really have good and scared myself this time. It being nearly $200 didn't help. So, you might be wondering, hows the training going...Okay no one cares, but Im going to speak about it anyway. I have managed to keep to the plan of 6-8 hours a week pretty well thus far. Bike and lift on Monday, Long run and swim Tuesday, repeat Tuesday and Thursday with a shorter run, Long Bike on Friday, off on Saturday and run and swim on Sunday. Now, though, I've made it past the mad scramble out of the gate, so to speak. Ive managed to heit all my goals for the month and I can feel the monotony beginning to set in. The results, weight loss to be exact is beginning to get harder to see and keeping up the diet and exercise is starting to be more of a challenge.
Constancy, or if you prefer stability, is something that I have been thinking about for a while now. It is one of the three taproot vows of the Benedictine order- not to jump around from order to order but to stay in place, in one rule of life. It's not something that I excel at. I often remind myself of Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows, with his manias; flights of fancy that pushed him from one extreme to the other. The challenge of maintaining a focus for a year on healthy eating and training for a serious endurance event, and not letting that focus consume me so utterly that I forget to balance my life, God, wife, work, etc. is something that I worry about. I have yet to display that type of discipline. I suppose there is a first time for everything.
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