Hawaii!
I would like my dream to come back true.
I would like Kona.
So I’ll go to Kona.
No, I’ve not gone loopy or no less than not completely! However what they are saying: you need to be the primary to consider your dream can come true or you could obtain your nice objective, even when everyone else says it’s unimaginable since you dream is overambitious…..so that’s the reason I’m saying I’ll go to Kona.
And there’s no doubt about that!
I’ve already accomplished my first month’s coaching. My newest journey that can take me to Hawaii started on tenth October.
This yr I’ve utterly modified my coaching: new coach, new coaching plans and new coaching strategies.
I’ve realise that killing myself with extreme mileage and intervals proper from the start of the season just isn’t very productive and is definitely actually demanding each bodily and mentally. There’s a actual threat that when the day comes spherical when you need to give all the pieces you’ve got, you abruptly realise you’ve gotten already given all the pieces – or nearly – over the earlier months and the results in your race shall be disagreeable to say the least. The explanation I’m saying it is because it occurred to me, sadly, throughout my final Ironman in Zürich. I actually misplaced it mentally and when your head goes then it’s sport over!
And so that’s the reason I’m embracing this new method and all of the adjustments!
On a sensible stage this implies calling all the pieces into query. Once I say all the pieces, I imply “all the pieces”: how I swim, run and trip the bike.
So I’m now making an attempt out an entire array of technical workout routines and drills I’ve by no means tried earlier than or no less than solely superficially or very often.
Put like that, it would sound straightforward, however in precise truth it takes a number of dedication, humility endurance and a willingness to alter with a view to enhance.
I discover myself doing easy body weight workout routines, however the day after my muscle mass really feel as if I’ve executed two hours’ weight coaching on the health club. Or I run just a few miles making an attempt to concentrate on my physique and stride price.
And it’s the identical on the bike and within the water……tons and many drills.
Typically I would even spend an hour and a half within the water making an attempt to elongate my stroke, make my leg kick extra environment friendly or enhance my swimming place. And it’s actually exhausting work! I used to suppose I used to be a “moderately” good swimmer, however I now realise I swim like a “duck”!
All this left me quite shell-shocked and barely disoriented over the primary few days, as is all the time the case with something new. However now I’m starting to get pleasure from myself and I feel I’m, maybe, on target.
After all I’m solely at first of my journey and I’ve nonetheless acquired a protracted strategy to go, however there’s one factor I’m sure of….
I would like my dream to come back true.
I would like Kona.
So I’ll go to Kona.
