My last posts have had a bit of a theme, things felt off and then I was ready to restart and re-motivate. And then I didn't quite get back in the groove, but hopefully with another try I'm re-motivated again.
But, isn't that the beautiful thing about life? Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Today you can change everything about yourself. You can change something small. You can try to change and then on a different 'today' decide that nothing really changed and try again on that day.
Anyway, relating that to what's going on: work has been a bit stressful for me. First, I've got a role that requires me to review (and approve) a lot of things. Then, I've gratefully reached the point of being a knowledge expert. Which is totally great because then you know you are benefiting the company. At the same time, it does mean more questions. Which takes time. To move up, learn more, and feel satisfaction from work I also need new projects, which are very time intensive. So, to be moving in the direction I want to and take care of my current job presents some serious time challenges.
And it's been catching up. Like having trouble sleeping and not recovering between workouts. Then crashing at noon, and eating candy and drinking caffeine to get my energy back. I think I buy candy once or twice a year out of the machine. In contrast, I had m'n ms, reeses, and a brownie from the cafeteria. And three or four diet cokes, two lattes, and 2 green teas. As expected, there was a burst of energy but it wasn't really sustainable or pertaining to the root of the problem.
So, I basically didn't look at my triathlon schedule for 5/6 days. I still spent some 12+ hours being active (there was a weekend in there), but again, I didn't actually look at the training plan. I mentally escaped for the weekend, focused during the workdays, let myself feel completely overwhelmed, and then got things done. And started to recenter.
And then, after feeling a bit more recentered, I renewed my training (again). I'm not sure the exact sequencing but it went something like this: half hour destress run, bike to work day, 1.5 hour climbing, (started looking at the schedule ->) 2 hours biking, 1 hour run, 1 hour core, 45 min biking, 2150 y swim, and 4.5 hours biking.
** special shot out to my friend who told me that she wanted to hear about my workouts, what I was eating, feeling, and tips :) *hugs* that helped with my motivation **
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