{"id":7375,"date":"2017-11-01T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T23:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=7375"},"modified":"2017-11-01T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T23:23:33","slug":"october-wrap-up-november-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/october-wrap-up-november-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"October Wrap Up, November Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to do shit.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes that shit is riding my trainer outside the bike store with my teammates blaring music at all the restaurants nearby.\u00a0 The obnoxious tomatoes ftw!<\/em><\/p>\n

Goals are, like, my drugs (or anti-drug? or maybe we could with a far more appropriate analogy and say I live for them? …nah).\u00a0 I love to make them, I love to plan them out, I love to conquer them, and I love to say, “what’s next<\/a>?”.<\/p>\n

I spent the first four months of the year plugging away at a single goal called Ironman<\/a>.\u00a0 Then, after a little bit of recovery, I took the blinders off and have been plugging away at a million smaller goals.\u00a0 Century ride<\/a>, check!\u00a0 Getting faster at running short distances and fixing my running form?\u00a0 Kinda check.\u00a0 Writing a book?\u00a0 Getting to the halfway point.\u00a0 Four usable bedrooms, check!\u00a0 Twenty million other things I typically ignore during training for a big event?\u00a0 Either check, in progress, or on the plan.<\/p>\n

While I’ll have some days where I feel a little overwhelmed, normally I’m super excited to be progressing towards things I want to do. And then, like late last week, my brain and body pretty much decided that it was time for a complete stop in the way of some MAJOR lack of mojo and heel pain that wasn’t just a twinge.<\/p>\n

I committed to waiting until my heel is pain free for 3 days until I run on it.\u00a0 Even today I’m not quite there yet (close but no cigar), but I think that means the earliest will be next Monday IF I have no twinges this weekend.\u00a0 I am so frustrated that I’ll be getting a late start preparing for 3M but I’m going to trust that these things happen for a reason.<\/p>\n

I had an unplanned day off on Monday and I wanted to do all the things and it was gorgeous outside so I should have ridden my bike everywhere.\u00a0 Except, I slept until 11 (over 12 hours of sleep).\u00a0 I read my book in bed and dithered around the house and finished writing a chapter in my book and couldn’t muster any sort of give-a-shit so I rode the trainer while reading more of ROAR<\/a> (which I have since finished and highly recommend to anyone who is not just a tiny man).\u00a0 I haven’t done a weights session since early last week.\u00a0 I haven’t made it to the pool.\u00a0 I might ride the trainer again sometime this week but it’s also just as likely I’ll sleep in instead.<\/p>\n

I feel like I’m letting precious time and beautiful weather slip through my hands.\u00a0 I feel like I’m in the worst shape of my life for this season (because I’m usually in the best shape right about now).\u00a0 You’d think I’d feel rested after riding my bike twice in a week and getting lots of sleep but I’ve felt like a frickin’ zombie all day so of course that makes me reconsider resting to begin with and maybe I should just suck it up and muddle through…<\/p>\n

“No,” the universe says.\u00a0 “Hard. Stop.”\u00a0 It’s not screaming yet, but it’s also not whispering.\u00a0 And using it’s stern voice.<\/p>\n

While I’m trying to discount what I’ve done over the summer\/fall as “just having fun”, I averaged 2\/3rds of my IM training volume (~30 hours per month from July through October, vs ~45 hours per month from January through April).\u00a0 Thirty hours per month is actually fairly close to my average 70.3 training volume.\u00a0 Whether I like to admit it or not, whether it really feels like it or not, even if it was “just” for 3 sprint triathlons and 2 century rides, I just went through a training cycle.\u00a0 And I need some faffing off time.<\/p>\n

I hear you, universe.\u00a0 No need to yell.\u00a0 I’ll give you a little more time.<\/p>\n

I’ll sum my October totals here:<\/p>\n