TriPatrick's group of support- closed (Page 6)

I totally stalled out the last two weeks or so. Quick recap:

May 22-24 - at a conference out of town

May 25-27 - out of town for family trip to a music festival and hanging out in Austin

May 28 - sprint Tri in Austin (stayed out until 12 or so night before, but did surprisingly well)

May 29-31 - 12 hr work days trying to catch up

June 1-3 - out of town (Austin) for wedding and weekend w/ wife and friends. Got one 3.5-4 mi jog in but the heat made it brutal

June 4 - drove home and played in industry sponsored golf tournament (all day + beer)

June 5 - 12 hr work day trying to catch up

So, as you can see, I've been pretty busy. Really haven't done hardly any training for almost 3 weeks. Definitely in a slump. And I'm going back out of town for work Tomorrow and Friday which pretty much kills all ambition to train. I also just tracked weight watcher's points again yesterday for the first time in over 2 weeks. Put on a couple of pounds in the interim. I definitely made better choices with food but everything I did pretty much for the past 2 weeks has involved alcohol. If only beer had less calories...

I am ready to break out of my slump but finding the motivation is tough. The baby's impending arrival is starting to hang over my head now (7 weeks left!) with all the things that need to be done prior to his arrival, never mind the whole life changing aspect. The good thing is that I'm pretty much done travelling/vacationing for a while now so I should be able to buckle down and get things checked off the list.

I had been working through the Olympic 2x/wk 20wk balanced program here on BT. I completed Month/Phase 2 last. My plan was to pick up the program starting next week with the recovery week for Month 2 and then go into Month 3. I'm thinkng that will give my body a little more time to adjust to getting back into the program and won't frustrate me with any lost speed/fitness from doing nothing for a couple weeks. Thoughts? My hesitation with this is that there is no way I can get through Months 3-4 prior to the baby being born which was my original goal. I think I probalby just need to back off that goal a little bit.

Thanks for listening/reading! It was certainly therapeutic getting it all out there!

So how is everybody doing this week?

I started out well yesterday. Mountain biked yesterday morning for 45-50 mins (approx 8 mi). Stopped at the gym on the way home and got in my 21min swim. Proceeding with my plan to start with month 2 recovery week this week then move to month 3 next week. Just found out I have to travel next Tues-Wed but I'm determined not to let myself get derailed this time.

Doing better sticking to my points the last few days too. Have to keep the determination up!