Confessions Of An Endurance Nation Refugee
Before I begin, I am not whining and have a GREAT life!
- I LOVE Being your EN Race Director. Best gig ever.
- An awesome wife
- Great 9 year old son
- Good friends
- A new startup business that is challenging and fun
- etc.
I simply need some training motivation.
The net-net....
I found out last October that my running career was done. Had meniscus surgery in 2005 and the doc told me I only had X amount of running miles left in the bank. My bank account run dry one month before 2011 IMAZ. So along with the other issues I had at IMAZ my run was more of a long walk with some running.
Since then I tried over last winter to reinvent myself into a roadie and started, briefly, doing criteriums. I soon discovered that I LOVED crits. But I hated roadie bike training. Boring to me. So that fell away.
I then started, briefly, to swim with Tom Glynn to support him and help him improve his swimming. But that stopped with summer and kids and all the summer distractions.
Now, some 9 months after IMAZ I am 30 pounds heavier and can't get motivated to bike and/or swim.
In short . . . I am fat, lazy and unmotivated.
So . . . . there ya have it. My confession.
I miss training and all the days outside in the world. Just can't dig deep enough to get going again.
Comments
You could alway join me on the Dark Side and start riding brevets. Plenty of beautiful courses in your neck of the woods.
x2 what Bill and Mike said. I think being an IM guy you need an epic Adventure ( yes with a capitol A) for a carrot. Go BIG. How about RAW (1st stage of RAMM) race across the west -- San Diego to Durango. 864 miles. Guy here in flagstaff just did it in 64 hours. You commit and I'll throw down to be on the support team.... I bet we can get a bunch of EN folks on board.
RAW ... I'me there, if Stark does it, I'll be part of the team.
http://www.raceacrossthewest.org/raw3/raam.php?N_webcat_id=124
It starts near my sioster's store in Oceanside, and I'mplanning on spending June in Colorado anyway ... perfect Big Bike Weeek training for IMahoe, 15 weeks later.
2 or 4 person teams. Whaddya say, Stark?
WOW! I am getting called out by Truscott!? Nice.
Race Across the West is enticing. Really is. Just need to get some momentum first.
@Keith - Tom Glynn is gonna pull me off the computer on Wednesday and take me out for a ride. :-)
@Al - Can I commit in January to RAW? If I do, the EN National Rally in Tucson in March would be a great place to get some really long mileage in.
@Rian - Thanks, brotha!
@et al: Thank so much.
My Update: Got on my bike yesterday and rode 20 or so easy miles. Just went out and cruised. I did jump on the back of a couple of roadies who blew past me but got spit out the back after about 3 minutes. :-) I am now organizing my schedule to swim and bike at least 2 days for each every week. Ordering a new bike helmet. May put some wheels on my tri bike to mix things up a bit. May do some other type of gym class as well.
Small steps. But they are steps.
Now, need to get some bike gear that I can fit into.
Thanks again.
Oh ya, and gonna channel _Noodle_= http://tinyurl.com/8lvdufj
Agree with several others ... just go out there and do it. No need for bike computer or watch or power data at the outset (or for a bit, likely). Go and enjoy being outside. If you want to bike fast without some of the aspects of crit training, go down to San Jose and ride at Helleyer velodrome. Around the world to the left 400 meters at a time. Workouts are short, but intense as are the events and the trackie crowd is quite welcoming and open (better IMO than roadies).
Hang in there brother!!
http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/raam/raam.php?N_webcat_id=1
Clock keeps running, even when sleeping. Makes for some interesting stories - like hallucinations that make you think mailboxes are people: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/adventure-bucket-list/Ride-the-Race-Across-America.html
You don't need to do RAAM to enjoy hallucinations while riding; I've experienced plenty of them on no-sleep 600k brevets.
Find tri and cycling clubs with weekly recurring rides and just join them.
Sign up for an organized century or other ride every 8wks or so and get ^these^ people to do it with you.