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This week has been a roller coaster. I started the week with very low motivation, going through very high moments to go back to normal motivation, were I had to skip several sessions.
I started on Tuesday with a swim session based on force. I did not start the week with the good attitude. I was not feeling too ready to train, I wanted to train but I was feeling sleepy. It is true that I had to do some staff on Monday and I did not get much sleep but my mind was not in the pool with me. In the afternoon I had to go to a job interview in Barcelona and I did not have time to train.
On Wednesday I wasn’t feeling fresh either. I was tired from the drive from the day before and I got up early again to go to the swim. This time I worked on muscular endurance. In the afternoon I could not train again because I had to go see the car that my parents bought for me.
By Thursday I started to feel a little better. I had many doubts about how the end of the week would look like. Should I reschedule the week after missing 4 sessions out of 6? Should I continue with the normal strategy? In the end I chose to keep on with the planned sessions. So in the afternoon I went for the long run, I ran for 20minutes not too fast and then I decided to go quite fast for nearly 20 minutes, it was higher than tempo, even though I felt some calf discomfort I did not slow down. Then I went to run with a friend for 45minutes, we were running to a nice comfortable pace, it is something that I really need because otherwise I tend to go to fast and he helps me slow down and train better and wiser.
On Friday I started with some anaerobic endurance swimming. I was feeling pumped. I was training hard again, I rejoined my schedule, the weekend was around the corner, my mind was sitting next to me, I started to feel strong again. Then in the afternoon we went to buy my new car and I jumped on the trainer. I had to start late and I finished later. It was not the best session ever, a lot of distractions.
Saturday morning, I got up and after doing everything my guests needed from me I went for the long bike ride. My legs weren’t fresh from the day before and this time I was riding solo. It did not look like there was much wind and I rode pretty fast for going alone but on my way back, after a while I had to face the wind. I was getting too distracted, it was because I had been on the bike for a long time and my energy reserves were low. I managed to finish the ride and then I bricked into a 15 minutes run, not a bad run considering all I had suffered on the bike.
On Sunday I went for an endurance swim. I felt pretty good during the swim even though it was harder than I had expected. Then I went for a run, 30minutes of good pace to loosen up and then I started to do some 5 times 1 minute very fast, 2 minutes easy to finish up with 15 minutes at an easy pace until I got bored and I started to go under 4minutes per kilometer, too fast on an easy day, but I guess this is my new pace.
While I was going to the interview I felt like I was doing something wrong. I felt like I was cheating. It hasn’t been long since I started my job and I like it, don’t get me wrong but I wanted to know what they wanted to offer me. What I don’t know is what I’ll do if they take me. My job started being fun but right now I am working too many hours and that is not the problem, I don’t have anything else to do but training, so I have no problems working many hours but seriously, do I have to receive a message from my boss while I am at a family dinner? Do you have to give me bad news at that moment? It is not that someone died it was only that we would fail some test, so what…
The decision will be hard. Now I live on my own, most of the time I am free to train and do the schedule that I want, I can leave from home on the weekends and good roads are at doorstep. If I move I will need to find new roads, new pool, new everything. I am not sure. I have just been given a car, what would I do with it if I move?
For some reason I did not start the week with low motivation due to the news that I got from the north to the south. My low motivation was due to something different I believe it was due because I just couldn’t do what I wanted to do. It was sort of a surprise what I read but who cares anymore. My life is driven by triathlon. It is driven by a race that I have not even signed in, will I do it? Not sure. I don’t know if I’ll be ready to do what I wanted to do.
My goal is high but I know I have been able to accomplish most of my dreams; it has always taken me longer than I wanted but I finally have been able to achieve them. There is a big one now and it will be hard to achieve it. Not too many people have been able to do that, I hope I’ll be one of them.
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