About The Home Stretch

Two weeks from today, on April 17th,, I will be racing the Ironman 70.3 New Orleans.  Preparation for this event started in earnest on January 17th.  Two days after finishing my winter project: P90X.

Since that day, I have logged in 1015 combined miles, and according to my coach's plan, tomorrow I start tapering, so taper I will!

Only thing left now is to trust the training.  Trust that I have given everything possible each time out.  That with each lap in the pool, each mile on the bike or on the pavement, I have had a purpose behind it.

About this point in the training process a curious thing begins to happen.  Yeah, I begin to wonder if I've done enough, if I could have done anything different, but I believe that this happens to most everyone out there.  But this is not what I'm talking about.

What I'm referring to is the fact that right about a week ago, I started noticing and feeling aches and pains I hadn't felt before, as I do prior to any other event. Every little thing seems to be magnified a thousand times.

I come home and I take inventory.  Yeah, the knee feels a bit more sore, the ankle aches just a tad more.  My back is tighter than usual. The shoulder is not as mobile as I'd like to be.  I stretch extra, I roll more often, I apply Biofreeze more frequently.  And I go on.

All this however, is in direct preparation to what's ahead, just 146 days from today:  Ironman Louisville.

Source: http://www.triathlonat55.com/2011/04/about-home-stretch.html

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