Onward and Upward
So our grand plans to complete the White Lake Half tomorrow have sadly but surely gone the way of the dodo. Today as I laid out all of my gear to prepare for tomorrow, I was driven by an insanely intense and overwhelming desire to complete this triathlon, even as my tired body begged me to sit down.
Race Gear
Steph and I have trained well and rested well over the past 5 months. Overtraining is certainly a risk and running down the body’s defenses a hazard that comes with the territory. However, i believe we skirted that fine line and both have been healthy, strong and injury free. That is until now, race weekend. As Steph lays crudded up her couch with both a fever and a Winston cough, I am slowly regaining my strength and appetite from a week plagued by a GI bug. This was a hard call for us both. After months of training there is something so satisfying in completing that culminating event. True, I do it all for the training. The feeling of being strong, healthy and enjoying the journey. But there is definitely something to be said of taking your body out for the really long spin, just to see what it can do. Pushing yourself mentally and physically to the limit you’ve worked so hard to extend. But alas it was decided that when you’re down, you’re down. No matter how hard you’ve worked. This was a smart call. A thirty-something call. Even if it is deflating. So we are running a consolation race. Over the Mountain on 5/21. It is an International Distance that, as the name suggests, goes Over a Mountain. Though it is a shorter distance I suspect that it will push our boundaries just the same. We have trained to go longer. Now we will go harder. Onward and upward.
Encourage me. Tell me about a time when you’ve had to make the hard call.
