Training for Ironman Texas 2022 - Weeks 12 and 13 - Holiday Hanging On

 Last week was Christmas week and it was a food orgy of sorts.  Trying to train some though all the bad food choices, reaffirmed how important daily nutrition is to sustaining a training program like this.  Week like the one past make me wonder is I am ironman material at all.  

This week I go on with a little more resolve.  Momentum is hard to come back. "A body at rest tends to stay at rest," and so getting this rocket ship off the ground is going to take a lot of personal and physical energy.  This week will more or less determine whether I go on with this or not. If I can't pull myself together and push myself through this, then I don't need to play "let's pretend" that I am an ironman.  

Of course, I have prayed about and I am hoping to hear back in the form of increased motivation and discipline and purpose.  I am hoping that is the case but if it isn't I can do that too.  

So, off to the trainer to get part of my planned workouts done.  God help me.

Just Begin - Again

Me and my training are crawling out of the "holiday hole." The weather is cold, wet under foot, rainy, and uninspiring. And I remember a former post written about overcoming the heat to train http://milesofthejourney.blogspot.com/2012/08/just-begin.html It was entitled, "Just Begin", and what is true of training in the heat is true of training in the cold and wet: just begin. And now, after the holiday setbacks, the lack of motivation, the call goes out from my spirit: just begin - again. And begin again and again and again; whatever it takes. I believe that the key to consistency and success in anything "is not in never falling but rising each time I fall." Begin, just begin. Just begin -- again.