Jon's Jibber-jabber

I will say this:  I hate training.   There, now, I've said it.  I hear and read about others who love training.   Some venture to assert that training is much more fun than racing.  I came across a blog somewhere about this recently and it got me thinking.  My conclusion can very quickly: I am not one of those people.  In fact, I am the polar opposite.  I love racing.  If I could race every weekend of the year, I would.  I'm sure racing every weekend would eventually become boring or physically too stressful, but I am a person who likes to stack my season with races and have a very tight race to training ratio.  Typically, I avoid long training blocks. Here are my reasons for hating on training. 1.   It is boring .   That is B O R I N G, capitalized and emphasized.  This is especially true for long course triathlon.  This may sound strange coming from me because I am an introvert by nature.   If you ask my friends or my wife, they will tell you that I often prefer to spend

Last week, I posted about the mental games played through training.   Now less than a month away from my big A race, I have reached the peak of physical training as well.   This coming week is my peak week and my final big push before the race.  This will be a tough week physically.  My volume is the highest of any week so far and my endurance sessions (on the weekend) will be nearly as long as the event itself.   In addition, I still have to balance work and life activities.    This week, I also started a Twitter account.   I'm using it primarily for triathlon and athletic type details as not to invade it with my other personal life.  From time to time, it might cross over but I'm trying not to turn my Facebook into Twitter and vice-versa.  We will see how this goes.  Usually, I am excited about these things and post frequently in the beginning and then it all goes downhill until I forget I even have an account.  I'm hoping I can be more diligent about it.   I had to us