Focus

Hello Everybody! I'm curious to know if anybody actually reads this thing. I think it's one of the more interesting blogs out there, but I may have a slight bias. Well a lot has been going on: school is almost over, I raced at Collegiate Nationals this past weekend, and my girlfriend, cat, and myself are moving into a house. I can't wait to get out of this one room apartment, that's right, ONE ROOM....ONLY ONE. Meaning I can piss, watch TV, and cook an omelette all at the same time. If we stay any longer one of use is going to kill the other and the cat has been giving me a strange look lately!

Collegiate Nationals was a wash. I never really recovered from the sickness and I knew it wasn't gone the minute to gun went off. I just didn't have the energy and it stayed with me the entire time. I mean come on, I cramped like crazy during the swim! My chain fell off during the bike, and my legs completely, and I mean completely gave out on the run. It was pathetic, I couldn't move and I was within 100 meters of the finish, on the red carpet and all. I eventually was able to move again and finished, but it was not what it should have been. I thought throughout the whole race that I should pull out, but it was so great being there with friends and my girlfriend cheering me on that I just couldn't. I went from a great performance three weeks earlier to this. So it goes. Water under the bridge I guess.

My main focus now is focus itself. I've been so busy driving here to race there and it's disrupting my training and progress a bit more than what I like. Marc has created such a serious training schedule that I'm still very excited about, but I keep putting my progress and training second to my racing. I've got a feeling that it will only hurt me if I keep doing things this way. When I was down at the Ironguides camp in El Paso, one of the first thing Marc and I talked about was my progress. He made it sound so simple and it went something along the lines of this: "Let's get you trained and as fit as possible up to a certain point and take it from there." Well, that's my focus: to train and get as fit as possible up to a certain point. I want to take the time to see the training have its effects and shoot for higher goals because I'm certain my body is capable of them since I'm trained and as fit as can be at that point.

Read this: http://www.ironguides.net/news/69/65.html

It's just a really good article and it puts things in perspective.

Beyond the above, I had a tough swim this morning. I'll just say a ton of 100's and it was grueling towards the end. I just got off the treadmill about an hour ago. I tend to expect to be able to push the pace that I WANT to be at, but always end up blowing up well before the finish. Tonight, I kept it real and did what I knew I could do and still be challenged. I sometimes feel like one of those crazy parents that think their kids can do way more than what they're capable of doing. Crazy parents!