The Hardest Part of Ironman Training

I’m not even gonna tease you here, the hardest part of training is putting on your workout clothes.

Okay, maybe it’s not quite that simple, but last night I was planning to ride the bike trainer and the urge to resist stepping over the workout-threshold was unbelievable.  I mean, I had to fill my damn water bottles, put on bike shorts, slide into velcro shoes.  What a pain in the ass!

I am not even kidding when I got pissed at myself for going downstairs to my bike, grabbing my shorts, then forgetting to bring my empty water bottles upstairs.  Here I am, training for triathlon and furious that I have to go back down a flight of stairs.  How can we explain this?

I was talking with a really good friend about it the other day and we agreed that preparation, even with the simplest things takes a major load off of training.  For whatever reason it is just so much easier when your clothes are out or your bike is on/in the car the night before.  The way I see it, every little thing I have to look for is more opportunity to make an excuse.

But, I’m happy to report, I took the trip back downstairs to get my bottles and eventually completed a legit trainer ride.  I was planning to make it a brick, but I’ll be damned if I couldn’t find my running shoes.
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A lot of you have been asking about my new non-traditional training plan.  It’s hard to explain in one post, but this example of me arm wrestling a strange man at the Big 10 Basketball Tournament provides a small clue.  armwrestle