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Week 15 - down to 9

3/7/16 - 3/13/16


Swim - 2
Bike - 2
Run - 2
Strength Training - 0
Weight to lose - 21.5 lbs
Mileage (weekly / 2016)
  Swim - 3400 yds / 35,850 yds miles  
  Bike - 39.7 miles / 392.2 miles
  Run - 8.86 miles / 91.2 miles

Not a bad week, not a great week.  Didn't get my log run into today because of some scheduling issues.

Lots of questions from people lately asking if I'm ready - am I ready????????? I think I'm ready - yes I have 9 weeks of training left but in my log sessions I'm feeling pretty good, not tired or sore the next day......but not sure if this really makes me ready?????

Now of course I start thinking about all those questions and it terrifies me because I haven't swam 2.4 miles and I haven't rode 112 miles and I haven't run 26.2 miles but I know I can swim 1.2 miles, ride 56 miles and run 13.1 miles and I know that my training is going pretty well.  I continue to focus on what Coach Krista says you don't have to do the entire distance to train to do the entire distance....again it's hard for me to buy into that mentality but I have to.

I hate that I can doubt myself so easily and that I lack the confidence to know that I can do anything I put my mind to.  Some days it's there but most days it's not.  As I've said before and as many people have said the mental game is far worse than the actual physical side.  I've always lacked self confidence in myself, which many people would be shocked to hear because my outward personality is often the completely opposite.  If I only I could understand why I'm like this and fix it, something I have struggled with all my life but it has been more real in the past few years more than ever.

I need to find the strength!

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  1. Joy WizziwaMarch 14, 2016 at 7:49 AM

    You don't have to find the strength...you have it. If you didn't...you wouldn't have decided to do an Iron Man or a Half Iron Man or the Iron Girl. I just realized something...maybe we never "fix" the things we "think" are wrong. Maybe we keep pushing ourselves in directions that test the very thing we have the hardest time with. It is the fact that you want to conquer the mental game that makes you want to the Iron Man. And conquer it you shall...

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