You know that point in your training where you have been working out for 4 weeks straight, no rest days, your legs refuse to cooperate, your HR monitor has rubbed you raw, you can no longer sleep, one eye is twitching, and you are having homicidal tendencies towards your coach?
That was Wednesday.
Thursday morning I woke up to an email from Mary giving me the day off. I think she got the point of my ever-increasing desperate emails: "I don't know if I will be able to make it through this week." "I am dying." "I just had to worst run of my life." "Please murder me."
Friday was easy as well.
Saturday and Sunday were not. They were my final 2 big workouts before Ironman Wisconsin. I did them, and they went well, but it was not easy.
Honestly, I'm surprised I made it through. The final push is the W-O-R-S-T.
I am now on a rest week, with 1/2 week of build and then some not-too-extreme tapering to sharpen up before my last (and biggest!) race of the season.
I just want to give a shout out to the rest week!
Unlike most type-A crazy triathletes, I LOVE rest weeks. I like doing other things, getting a chance to screw around and be lazy, to curl up on my couch with a book, to go out to dinner, to actually do something during the day on a Saturday, to be able to run errands.
Plus, I am 100% sure I would have gone insane if I didn't have today off. Like, lock me up in a padded room wearing a straitjacket while I rock back and forth babbling to myself, INSANE.
I really, really, really, really don't want that to happen.
We are getting sooooo close!!!
ReplyDeleteI really need to schedule some time to actually plan the travel/vacation. Like checklists and stuff. Ugh.
Don't rest days sometimes come like a gift from above? :) Sounds like you were in major need of one. The race is getting so close. Enjoy the next two weeks!
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