Motivation Lacking

Hiya,

There's quite a few reasons that you would be feeling exhausted, ranging from stress at work, lack of sleep, not eating enough (or at the right time) or over training.  So have a think about the factors that may be affecting you and what you could do about them.  If you're allergic to yeast & dairy, eacing bread & stuff won't help the way you're feeling.  Why not try muesli bars instead, given the amount of training you've got sheduled, it's not like you need to worry about your calorie intake being too high.

On the whole motivation side, there's a few things you can do.  I'd suggest moving some of your swims to the evening (don't know if it's possible for you) and moving your runs to outside instead of on the treadmill.  Also invent some targets for yourself, don't set them really agressive, but slightly above what you're doing now, even if they're arbitrary, achieving a target is a very good motivator and I think you need a little success at the moment - maybe set yourselt a target of 11m for a 400m.  Do you do drills when you swim, or zip up and down until it hurts?  If your arms die quickly you're probably not being very efficient in the water, so have a look at the swim articles here and elsewhere and spend some of your sessions in the pool doing that (don't even record the times for them, they're not important in a technique session)

Where are you off on holiday to - just chuck some trainers and your swim gear in the bag and have a run if you feel like it.  It sounds like you need a rest anyway, so have a good holiday and you'll probably find it easier to get back into training when you get back.

Are you cycling tonight?  I'll be at the spin class if you want to bounce a few ideas off someone.

There's a button at the bottom of each post that links directly to your training log (if it's public, there's a tick box in the control panel to make it private so others can't see it).  I'm really sorry if I've intruded, that wasn't my intention.

I'm not a great swimmer, but I know the basics, I need to swim on Friday morning, I could come to the abbey instead of parkside if you want me to have a look.  Let me know if you want to train together on Friday (click the profile button below my post for email address etc).

 I know what you mean about the articles, the problem is that swimming is very technical, and it's quite hard to put into written text "move your arm like this" so what takes 10s to explain on poolside takes 5 pages.

I'm not sure what nutrition book you have been reading, but I thought that bread and bananas was exactly what you're supposed to eat, as opposed of my instincts of grabbing a Yorkie bar, a flapjack and a can of coke.

It definitely sounds like you just need a break, so have fun in Morocco

Chocolate... but it's not for girls ;-)

you probably have to be english to have a clue what I'm on about here, this might explain it a bit

http://advertising.metro.co.uk/images/downloads/Yorkie.pdf