The Dark Side
As I sit here with icicles thawing from my post swim walk from the pool to the engineering building I can't help myself from dreaming of a warmer place. The Iowa winter has been brutal for everyone and I am not immune to that. Despite the fact that I want to remain positive and get every ounce of training I can out of the bonus hours inside, I have lost here and there. I am a few numbers orientated person and over the years I has been one of the big reasons for my progression in the sport. Hard work over time makes me stronger and faster. While a day or two being not being quite ideal won't bother me, weeks and months of constant added factors to training from weather started to really get to me. This past weekend was a pushing point for me mentally, I cracked. CIRREM was impossible for me to get to (or race for that matter) and leaving the house would have ended with me in the ditch. I began to pace the house thinking of what adaptions to the training plan I would need to have...