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Ok ladies, the ball is gonna drop tomorrow night at midnight and we'll be into 2007! With that, our training calendars will roll over and start again, completely empty and white in January. As we know, when a workout gets logged in the training blogs, the square on the calendar turns pink (light pink for swim, bike, run, and dark pink for other sports, strength training, etc).

So who is up for some "habit-forming training" starting in January? Meaning, let's use the month of January to turn those squares pink! They say it takes 21 days to break a habit, so we'll try a do the reverse and form the habit of training consistently over the month of January (30 days will make sure it sticks ). Do what you can to get out there and train and turn those squares pink. Yellow and white are ok for planned rest days. And green (race days) are good too. Of course, the squares turn pink even if 1 minute of a sport get logged. Which is why we're all here to keep each other honest (i.e. razz anyone who does something silly like that ).

So who's with me?! Down with the patchwork quilt training calendar! He he.

Awesome Rae! Just think of how far ahead you'll be for the season by sticking to that winter maintenance plan. I've slacked off in the winter in the past and boy did it bite me when I started back up with training in Feb. For me, the swimming endurance is always the first to go followed by the running.

So a half marathon in Oct...that's so cool!

Hi Cathy,

I am never able to follow a training plan exactly how it is laid out for the week. So what I do is upload the plan to my blog, and each week I look at the planned training, print it out, and then number each workout. Then I look at my weekly schedule and assign the workouts for the days they fit best. So Monday might be Swim #5, Bike #3; Tuesday might be Run #10 and Strength #2 and so on. I figure it's better to get the workouts in and fit them to my schedule than miss workouts because the plan didn't fit my schedule at all.

Ladies!  I had a little 'OH MY GOD I CAN'T DO THIS WHAT WAS I THINKING' moment the last week or so. I'm freaked out about an IM commitment, I'm freaked out about the fundraising for Team in Training, and I'm freaked out about swimming. But this is something I really WANT to do and I know I can do. Our group friend CathyD spent the last day talking me off my ledge and giving me words of encouragement. I've decided to really bust tail in January to build the habit and also to just focus on my HIM in May because the IM in August is just too far and too daunting for my comfort level.

I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL holiday week and I'll 'see' you all out there!!!

--leslie

Oh yeah...August is way far away to be stressing about it right now. Don't DNF or DNS yourself before you even start training!

Glad to see your ready to go gangbusters on the training in Jan. I think we're all trying to get training to be a habit this month, so that it will carry into next month. So far the group is doing great!

I do have a question. Everytime my training plan has two workouts, I assume they mean a brick but it is really hard on work days to cram two hours in anywhere. Do they mean a brick or can I split the workouts up into before work and after work reserving my long bricks for the weekends? I assume I can do whatever I have time to do, but some confirmation from you guys would be great!

thanks,

--leslie