Arrgg. Pity party.

Hurt my back Tuesday with my first Olympic length coming up next weekend. Lifted a box in a way I knew I shouldn't. I knew it at the time. Stupid stupid stupid.


I'm pretty sure I'll be in decent shape by then, backwise. I did it earlier this year. It took a couple weeks, but I didn't really miss a whole lot of exercise.

So far, I've really only missed one workout and cut one down. It's not like I'm training for any serious distance, but I was trying to sort of 'practice' some of the methods used in the longer distance plans I've been looking at. You know....kinda pushing my distance over a couple week period there. I was looking at this week being pretty moderate and tailing off into next week. Again, I know it's only Olympic length, but I can't imagine it hurts to practice on a smaller scale.

Now I worry that any time I miss this week, will mess me up. Why can I be sooooo dang confident one week, and then something relatively insignificant (missing a few days of exercise) shake that confidence so quickly? I mean, I hit the pool pretty hard (more than I have ever done up to this point), I pushed past the distances I need to go and was really happy with the results. And then wham. All confidence gone.

I suppose it's because I've not gone quite that distance yet. Close, but no pretzel rod. Maybe I need to look at this as a good thing. Being able to practice a planned pre-race workout schedule that gets screwed up and deal with it "on the day".

/whining

Edited by jhaack39 2014-08-21 3:24 PM