DO NOT GIVE UP

Nice!

Is this to help you too?

Fight to make training a habit.  Even if you can't get the full workout you wanted to in, just get something in.

If you have a 4 mile run to go on but are running out of time.  Get your stuff on and go for a 10 min run.  You still did something and that will go a long way towards it becoming a habit.

This is the time of the year when it is most important to remind athletes to SUAT. When feeling down, procrastinating, making excuses, battling cold weather, etc just Shut Up And Train

(now I have to follow my own advice!)

Excellent Post Marma! As I read it... all I could think was...that was from the heart.

 I heart triathletes!

Thanks, marma.

 I was literally sitting here thinking "I'm going to skip my swim workout today" and decided to read this thread before logging off BT.

 Now I'm headed to the pool instead of turning on the TV. 

Thanks marma, good post.

Looking back at myself 5 and 10 years ago, you are right, i am the man i wanted to be.

It's in our thoughts, it's in our actions. We want to be somebody, we want to achieve something, we want to make something, we want to be healthy, strong, we want to make a difference in the world. And we get up and do it, no matter what, no matter if it's cold or hot, no matter if it rains or not, no matter if there is snow we just get out and grow. We grow as a person, we grow as triathletes.
We need to help each other, and when we feel we are down we need more support and help from each other then ever.

Thank you and who says anything about giving up?

One of my favorite magazine articles:

The Art of the Relapse from Experience Life Magazine.

This is a big key---just this morning my swim time got cut short by traffic but I had a great workout and feel much better for having gotten in the pool instead of just giving up on it all together!!

This post made me smile - because that "shut up and train" caught me on monday.  Thanks for this!!

I really want to do my first tri this year and the swim is my achilles. I had a new session of swim classes starting on Monday and it's at 8:30. I was tired, I really didn't want to go anywhere but i went. Only to find the pool closed.  Sigh, so i got back on the bus and debated with myself the whole time. I REALLY wanted to go home and lay on the couch but i went straight to my gym's pool instead. It was only 30 mins instead of an hour class but i didn't skip it. YAY.

Absolutely fabulous post!  And the follow up about getting in something rather than nothing is great.

When I'm thinking about skipping a workout I remind myself that I love myself enough to give myself that gift. Like yesterday for example.  I forgot my swim stuff for after my strength workout.  I knew if I made it home to pick it up I wouldn't make it back out.  So, I just headed straight for the gym and did a longer weights workout.  Still got something done from my training to do list for the week.  

Now, where's my apple?  

Awesome for you, dude!

If we spend our days waiting around for the perfect conditions to do something, we may never get it done.  Like my sig below says:  Don't make the perfect be the enemy of the good.  If five miles is scaring you off, do three, two or even one.

Great post!  (Er, Marma's.  Not mine. )