Seminar 1: Self Care | Part 2: Goal Setting

Coach Patrick

Presented by Al Truscott (Profile Here)

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Al Truscott

Gotta put my money where my mouth is...this morning, I normally would have gone out the door with my wife to swim for an hour, then this afternoon, tried a Zwift race for the OS cycling workout.

I'm feeling pretty chipper this morning, but my weight has dropped two pounds in the last two days, without any change in body water %, and I slept more than 8 hours - usual is about 7 hr 20-30 min. And I didn't want to eat enough yesterday, even though I knew I needed too. Those are three of the five leading indicators listed in my outline above. Anticipating downstream workouts tells me that cycling is my #1 priority: I have no races for at least 15 weeks, but I do have Mallorca cycling camp in ten days, and then three weeks cycling in Colorado in May-June, and I want to be ready for those. So I reluctantly told my wife, "I'm not going swimming cause my weight's dropping and I step a lot last night, and I want to be able to get the most out of my bike later today. Besides, tomorrow's gonna be a great weather day, and I want to ride 2+ hours outside."

So I just thought I'd share my thought process on how to manage workout schedules and goals. And, as I said on Monday, the hardest workouts I do are the ones I drop from the schedule.

Al Truscott

Reassuring graph comparing the average of the top ten times by 1 year increments in the 2010/11 NYC marathon:



Unfortunately (for me), things seem to start to go haywire around 65, and by 70...