Slump

No I'm not talking about the slump test you do for concrete...although those are pretty cool, if you make a good concrete mix. Sorry lame Civil Engineering joke. What I'm speaking of is the kinda funk I've been in for the past two weeks. As much as I love this sport I feel like there comes a time when you have to take a break in your training. This same thing happened with me when preparing for the marathon relay about week 6 I hit a wall and just hated training, I wasn't having any fun...so I took a break for 4 days and was back to running and loved it again.

The same thing happened this past week...this time I got to week 8 though, so I'm improving to say the least haha. I've read a lot about overtraining from the spring and thought it might be that, and I guess it could be. But lately I've just felt like I kept on going and going. Now if you really knew me you'd know that I love me sleep, but in a weird way, I can't sleep more than oh 9 hours, but also I get upset if I'm no in bed early enough to where I'll get less than 7. So needless to say I get me rest each night....ahhhh so great. However I've see that this is really just temporary, I've seen patterns in my life where you can go and go and go for weeks on a time, but eventually life will catch up to you. And I think thats what happened, so what did I do, I prioritized. I was kinda down about not seeing friends and such so I moved them up in time I spent and just chilled out the last week. I put in some tri training but not a lot. Needless to say this week I feel very rested and ready to go hard in any workout. Sunday I did a 50 min tempo run (25 warmup: 20 tempo: 5 cool down) not going to lie it sucked, but I know it helped. Then monday I did a spin class....oh guuu... That was hard I think I flooded the floor with sweat in just the warmup...my shirt (which wasn't even cotton) had to be dried out by the bathing suit dryer haha. And this morning I got the joy of finally putting in 2000m in the pool. So I think I'm back on my way to great potential for the fall to finish my first Olympic distance tri!!!