I'd had an official 26.2 kickoff run with Cat back in March. Then the wheels came off. I had been sick for nearly a month prior to that short 4.2 mile run and then when I got home I have had a wide array of ailments and issues I won't bore you with. Sooooooo....time to start over.
We've booked our hotel and tickets and will book our flights in the next week or so so it's clearly time to get back in the saddle and start my training. I'm wanting to do it but also, frankly, scared to do it. I am working on a personality transplant to make me less Negative Nancy about things so I'm attempting to go into this new phase of training with a positive attitude, not a cynical 'just don't die' attitude. So far only about a 20% success rate. Baby Steps.
So, I'm buckling down and using my awesome TrekDesk on the days I work at home (I am on it right now, acutally) so I can get extra exercise in during a time I'd usually be totally sedentary. I'm going to follow the Jeff Galloway plan from the Disney site and probably, at least at the beginning, use the run-walk method. I find when I 'run' I'm actually moving at a faster pace then ever before but I tire quite easily. So, using the run-walk to build up will, I think, be helpful and help me with pacing. I suck at pacing. I could go buy all the fancy bells and whistles that help you with such things but I think if I find I need it I'll just steal Mr. TheyTri's Garmin.
So, here we go. I'm putting this up publicly so I'll be shamed into keeping up with my training.
The musings of a triathlon wife about life on the outside of transition.
