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Got in a gym and bike workout last night.  Getting off work early today (2-3ish) to hit the trainer and then gym and pool tonight.

hoping to get back in the habit of commuting to work on my bike... just need the weather to be a little more cooperative.

Didn't get in a workout yesterday, but did manage to get outside for an hour on the bike on Sunday. Not bad for mid January! We're due to get some snow tomorrow, followed by colder weather though, so I don't imagine that will last. Planning to hit the trainer tonight, followed by another one of my slow 1M runs to build up my ankle strength. Did one on Saturday and it felt okay, so hopefully it's working.

Thinking about FINALLY hitting the pool tomorrow. I'm such a terrible swimmer, and I don't like doing workouts I can't do from home, so it's difficult to get motivated. I'm hoping to meet up with my old swim coach to finally figure out why I'm so slow in a month or two though, so I'd like to at least have a base built up so we're not also dealing with me being out of shape!

Well, it sucks that it's broken, but good that it's ok to tape up. Looks like a bike focus block is in the future

There's always the good old 1:30/:30 on/off sets! Make them hurt and they'll really help the crits.

first 3 workout day of the year.  feels awesome.  finally going to get back in the swing of things.  

can you swim while it's broken?  might be a good time to hit the pool to keep workouts going

Well, instead of a trainer ride and a run, I went home and sat on my couch, occasionally glancing at the trainer, but not finding the motivation to actually get on it. *Sigh* I've just been having serious motivational issues since my IM in September. I think it's made worse since I've decided to stick to sprints this year, so I don't even have the push to train in the fear that I'll choke on the distance. I'd like to be competitive though, so clearly, that's not going to happen with me sitting on my butt.

Anyway, sorry for the negative post. I guess I'm hoping if I put my laziness out there, I'll be more inclined to do something about it tonight. Today's a new day after all!

Sorry about the toe, I hope it heals up quickly!

Everyone has those days/nights/weeks/whatever.  That was yesterday and is doesn't matter what you did yesterday, whether good or bad.  Best little tip or nugget of advice I read on this site so far was in regards to finding the will to motivate yourself when you know it's something you should be doing, but it's just a matter of getting that intitial push.  Someone said just go and do it for 5 minutes, and after those 5 minutes if you want to stop, then you are free to stop, but 99.9% of the time you won't stop after those 5 minutes.  It's a mental trick, but getting off your butt to train starts with the mental decision to get up.  I think it works great because once you get on the bike or get all your clothes together for a cold weather run you've already come that far that hell you might as well put in the full hour at this point.

Do you have specific goals for your sprints besides be competitive?  I'm still in my main digestion phase of all the info I've been reading in books (read as: I have no clue what I'm talking about), but a huge thing they mention is that once you're comfortable with the distance and the race itself that you need more defined goals, and it seems like since you're comfortable with the sprint that maybe you should have a defined goal.  Maybe that will motivate you a bit more? 

Post IM, motivation is often hard to come by... even months later. I had taken time to re-connect with the outside world, see the sun, play video games... things that you don't really get to do with full on IM training. After you've taken a few months "easier" it can be pretty daunting to go back to training seriously.

The thing that always helps me is identifying what I want to change and having a "realistic" goal. I want to improve my run in races (thereby not lose so frustratingly every race), so I had to go run on the treadmill this morning despite hating every minute of it. (Stupid Flooding!)

If you want to be competitive this season, you have to put in the work New Day!

The good thing is that it all comes back pretty fast, just keep it easy for a while!

I was thinking of it.  It looks intense.  I refuse to skip my swim days right now as that is my main focus at the moment but if anyone else was interested I'll do it to keep the mojo going and give everyone a little "competition" or at least keep me accountable.  I can do the trainer ride early AM then swim at night when needed.

Did "A Very Dark Place" last night on the trainer.  I really liked that one.  I think I need to up my FTP a bit more but that might be a death sentence right before doing the Tour.

i hope to make all the days, won't be doing trainerroad though, so i'll be intelligible for all the giveaways associated with it.

Thanks for the encouragement everyone! I'll definitely start thinking of some tangible goals, then get to work. I'm thinking: improve my swim times (I'm solidly BOP), try to break 20 mph average on the bike in a race and improve my 5K time. The latter is difficult to work on now because of my ankle, but if it keeps doing okay, that shouldn't take me too long to build up. I like the idea of finding 5Ks alone to get a better feel for my pace too. I'll try throwing them in periodically once I'm healed up.

As for the TR Sufferfest videos, I'm not sure I can do them. I just bought my first SF video, only to find out that I can't play it through my wireless device I have hooked up to my TV. Sadness! I'm assuming TR works the same way, although definitely correct me if I'm wrong. I have a laptop too, but I don't really have a good setup to watch that while I'm riding at the moment. Perhaps another goal to work on...

I have a question about pre-workout-specifically before running-meals...

what is best to eat, and how long before training is it best to eat?

I ask because I went running tonight and had to cut the circuit short because I started tasting my last meal which I had eaten about 40 minutes before.