Thursday, May 1, 2014

Just Breathe

Well the past couple day's it's really hit me how REAL Ironman is going to be this year. Not that I didn't think it was real before but now - 108 days out - it feels like it's LOOMING.  Everyone keeps telling me I will be fine and that it will be awesome.  But for some reason I just feel scared… I'm at the point though where I think I need to really focus on my training and getting in the workouts so that when race day comes I will know that I did everything I could to be prepared!
Today was an early morning swim.  Had a decent one too not great but not terrible.  I know my swim is in the bag really - that I'll be under (hopefully) an hour and have banked a bunch of time towards the cutoffs so that there really is no danger of missing a time cutoff and having my race cut short.  Today's schedule also had an easy 90 min bike ride on it.  I just got off the bike and I'm feeling somewhat satisfied that I've done what I should have today.
I know my coach knows what he's doing and that as long as I follow the plan everything will be fine.  I just think that once I get a couple solid training weeks in my confidence will start to improve and i'll feel better about it all.  I'm at my fundraising goal for the Ride to Conquer Cancer so that will be a great weekend of riding that will help me to feel ready and confident leading into the Mt. Tremblant half at the end of June.
I'm also glad to have a lot of training partners and teammates that are willing to ride/run with me and help me to get ready for the big day.
108 days - seems like nothing really - how did the 250+ days since I registered go by so fast????  Just gotta keep plugging away and know that I will be ready!
And like a good friend/training buddy told me today - breathe… just breathe!

2 comments:

  1. You will be ready. You don't have the personality to not be ready:)
    It will be amazing to see you at the start line and again at the finish.

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  2. you got this! it is inspiring and I am honoured to be there!

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