Christmas is nearing, training is ramping up ( a bit )

My goals for training have be significantly simple...stay lean, and start getting going again in the new year! The 'staying lean' part is tougher than you think. When your training you don't have time to be bored and you don't want to 'ruin' your workouts with fatty, carb filled foods. When you are not training (due to injury may I remind you) and its cold outside...coupled with the fact that the holidays have been happening for over a week now...you're set up for disaster. So, being the totally non pro-active individual that I am (not) I have decided to test out the waters a bit and start working on some lite goals before the new year begins. I couldn't be happier that I did.

My Bursitis in my left knee keeps me from doing lotsw of knee bending activities. Cycling being one of those, which is a key trining must for a triathlete. So, in order to keep myself going I have been working the core and running a bit...a very little itty bitty bit. Being extremely limited, by fear mostly, I am taking it easy as to not injure anything else in the process. Just enough to keep an edge so when February roles round it can and will be 'GO' time.

Lets put something in perspective, on a different note. In talking about Christmas presents and what I wanted for Christmas...IZ asked me to make her a list. There are so many things I want, so many things I need, yet making a list is tougher than you think...especially if the things you want and or need are specific to a certain sport or thing that your significant other isn't TOTALLY involved in (accept when I am racing and training, she is very supportive). Nonetheless, trying to make a list and then explain that list and sizes, colors, the difference between this and that and the other thing is very difficult. Back to my point...adding to my list involved adding a new 'potential' hobby. IZ questioned how i can having SO many different hobbies and how in the heck is she gonna be able to keep up with all that let alone when is she ever going to see me. I laughed a bit, out loud probably as well, but had an understanding of how it all melds together in the long run or in the big picture. You see...all the hobbies of a triathlete or multisports type individual have to do with the sport and have relevance to the sport in some magnitude or to some degree. That being said...snowshoes, crosscountry skis, and mountain biking 'things'...are all very important to what we like to call 'cross-trainig' (this justifies it, all of it).

On that note:


bish....out!