Dexter and Marmadaddy's Group: CLOSED (Page 14)

Heather, what is the longest duration for the run?  I would look at that and compare it to another beginner plan that uses distance to determine how many mph they might've based it on.  It is hard to guess because some of the runs may be tempo, some may be LSD, so that 10mph may not be a consistent guide.  Can you  use your plan for swim and bike and use a different plan for run and just merge the two?

I like the daily plate and my doctor actually recommended it as what she uses.  Here is the link, go to daily plate and set it up for yourself.  Just be honest about your daily activity level and add in training as you do it.  It gives a little too much for activity if you claim that you do that much daily.   Daily plate's graphs are really cool too.

http://www.livestrong.com/

Dex, its good to have a diagnosis and option for that pain.  Have fun with the link.  Its an eyeopener.  Especially the breakdown of food.  I never realized how carb heavy I eat.

I have a mental issue that I'm not sure that I've seen addressed on BT (no, its not treatable with therapy or medication).  This week I've struggled mentally.  Last couple of weeks, I never missed a workout.  I was feeling great.  I did a spinning class/run/strength with trainer/run over 2.5 hours last Friday, a 5k+physical challenges on Saturday, and a 2 hour trainer ride on Sunday.  An hour in to the trainer ride on Sunday, I was done.  Fatigued.  It was all I could do to push through another hour.  The type of fatigue that almost brings you to tears.  I know one mistake was no nutrition on the bike, just water. I usually just eat breakfast and then do a workout.  I tanked totally after an hour, so that was a lesson learned: if I am going to go longer than 40 minutes, I need to take nutrition, I prefer clif gels.  Because I didn't take nutrition, because I had kicked my own butt over the weekend with crazy long workouts, mentally I am toast.  My mind is scared to get back on the bike.  It remembers that awful feeling when I got off the bike on Sunday.  I can't convince myself that if I go less and nutrition right, I won't toast myself.  I looked back at my logs for the past year and a half and I seem to struggle with this.  It is like the memory fibers are not in my muscles, they are in my brain, and my brain says, SURVIVAL.  It is stopping me and I need to surpress this memory of feeling like crap.   Work has been mentally fatiguing also, and that is not helping.  I just want to lie down and read a mindless book.  I can run but I can't bear the thought right now of the bike, sort of like how I felt the last time I was in the pool, on New Year's eve.  I can't make myself get back in the pool.  Suggestions?  Anything? 

I have my trainer tonight and I pay for him so I have to go.  I have the day off so I should be able to workout.  I am afraid I will try to play catch up and do six hours of killer workouts to make up for the time I've taken off this week and then be toast again.  I don't know how to set limits.  I look at the plans and think, for the beginner plans, which is where I belong because of my inconsistency, that they are just a minimum.  I know that this is wrong but I can't get past this mental thing.  Sorry to vent. 

On a personal note:  Work SUCKS!!  I had yesterday sort-of off, and I have today off.  I so don't want to go back on Monday.  Mentally, I am just done.