2nd week to Frankfurt

The second week of the plan is over. I am still highly motivated although I have had my ups and downs already and this is just the beginning when legs still don’t hurt much at the end of the workout but this is the foundation to build on.

The first strength training of the week felt surprisingly good but the second one because of the rush it did not feel so easy, I am still in my maximum strength phase and I am still doing the exercises although for the last two weeks I have increased when rep per set.

I am still easy on the bike, I have completed 4 sessions of different lengths but they felt good enough, it is still very early in the season for the bike so all I have to do is to build endurance. It is never easy to put 2 solid hours on the trainer but this is what it takes.

I am still not swimming as much as I would like to but having a marathon in the near horizon and having 2 sessions of strength training per weeks makes it difficult to fit in the swim, at the same time if the pool decides to be on holiday the day that I have chosen to swim it just makes it a little more difficult. I wanted to do 3 sessions but since I could not do the third session and there was a mistake in my second session plan I ended up doing two long swims and a test in one of them, it was an 800m test and I did it fairly well.

The sport in which I might have had a huge difference of feelings from the beginning of the week to the end of it has been the run. I started off very solid with two runs in two days that I thought they were pretty good runs but then at the end of the week I did not feel so well, maybe because it was windy I did not feel that I was working enough and I don’t like that specially when the marathon is around the corner.

I am not sure if my good feelings are due to the more rest that I get or that I am just training better and smarter. I am putting many more hours of sleep this year and that must be good. The quality of my sleep is still not perfect and I wish I would sleep better but at least I am sleeping more, but it is still too early to come to a conclusion.

My mind is still not completely where it should be. There are still too many thoughts and too much insecurity. I want and I need inner peace and I am not having it and I am not having it because there are still chapters of my life that need to be foreclosed or reopened but being nearly closed is not an option. There are too many inputs that make me think too much and it ain’t good. I am happy on what I am doing but of course I could be happier, I am missing something that I wish I had been understood, but I cannot control all aspects of my life because not all of them depend on me. But I am grateful that I am coming clean. Some time ago I wouldn’t have said any of the things that I have said this past week but my credibility is too low so too bad. Thanks anyway to the person who taught me that one needs to be open and say whatever it feels right because it pays off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovcNw8xr64